Security guards held back protesters as they chanted demands for reparations. The Netherlands was responsible for the enslavement tens of thousands of people in the Dutch Cape Colony.
Around 100 protesters confronted the Dutch royal couple as they made an official visit to a slavery museum in South Africa on Friday.and Queen Maxima were visiting the Slave Lodge building in central Cape Town, a museum that traces part of their country's 150-year-long involvement in slavery in South Africa.
The king and queen were put into a car by security personnel and quickly driven away as some of the protesters, including First Nations people wearing traditional animal-skin dress, jostled with police.At the Slave Lodge, which was built in 1679, Willem-Alexander and Maxima walked through the same rooms where enslaved men, women and children were held under Dutch colonial rule.
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