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tradition-not-traced-before-1875 · van-wyk-gorelik-2017-cape-herbal-teas
- Claim ID
- tradition-not-traced-before-1875
- Assertion
- Statements that rooibos tea is a traditional drink of Khoi-descended people of the Cederberg are correct, but the authors could not trace the tradition back further than the last quarter of the 19th century. They raise the possibility that indigenous teas were found during a commercially motivated survey for substitutes for imported black tea.
- Quote
Statements that rooibos tea is a traditional drink of Khoi-descended people of the Cedarberg (and "poor whites") are correct but we have not been able to trace this tradition further back than the last quarter of the 19th century.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 28
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