Kwaaihoek’s True Cross
In the foyer of the University of the Witwatersrand’s William Cullen Library is Bartolomeu Dias’s Padrão de São Gregorio, named in honour of Saint Gregory. More than 530 years old, the almost 2m-tall structure is testimony not only to a historic voyage of discovery, but to the perservance of a remarkable academic, Dr Eric Axelson of the university’s Department of History.
