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The Best Attractions In Macassar

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Macassar is a small town in South Africa, close to Strand and Somerset West, with an approximate population of 33,225. Macassar’s history is closely tied to the Strand as it is from here that its first inhabitants came. The kramat of Sheikh Yusuf of Sultanate of Gowa, in what is today Makassar in Indonesia, is one of the South African Muslim community's holiest places. The Sheikh, who was exiled by the Dutch in 1694, came to the strand area and made it his final resting place although his followers, who were mainly fishermen, found the sea of Macassar rather uninviting and moved further along the coast to Strand’s Mosterds Bay. After the death of S...
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