Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
Mowbray, Cape Town: Clapperton's Mill: Tower: 1770 1903 Demolished Mowbray, Cape Town: Valkenburg Mill: Tower: 1803 1827 Demolished Salt River, Cape Town: The Hope Mill: Tower: 1844 1863 Demolished Salt River, Cape Town: Salt River Mill: Tower: 1844 1863 Demolished Salt River, Cape Town: Broekman Mill (Welvergenoegd) Tower: 1844 1863 Demolished ...
Kalk Bay (Afrikaans: Kalkbaai) is a fishing village and suburb of Cape Town. It lies on the east coast of False Bay. Much of the town is built on the slopes of mountains which border the sea, with peaks of Table Mountain Sandstone forming valleys. The railway from Cape Town to Simon's Town passes through Kalk Bay, which has one station near the ...
The park is located approximately 495 km north of Cape Town and 22 km northwest of Kamieskroon. It was officially gazetted in August 1999. [3] Skilpad Nature Reserve, formed in 1993 to protect Namaqualand's plant life, formed the nucleus of the new national park with the addition of 500 km 2 of land to create the park. 270 km 2 has since been ...
This is a list of cities and towns in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. In the case of settlements that have had their official names changed the traditional name is listed first followed by the new name.
Sources: 1658–1904, [1] 1950–1990, [2] 1996, [3] 2001, and 2011 Census; [4] 2007, [5] 2016 Census estimates. [6] The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was ...
7976. PO box. 7976. Kommetjie ( Afrikaans for "small basin," approximately pronounced caw-me-key) is a small town near Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It lies about halfway down the west coast of the Cape Peninsula, at the southern end of the long wide beach that runs northwards towards Chapman's Peak and Noordhoek.
Vredehoek (Afrikaans: "peace corner", Afrikaans: [frɪədəhuk]) is a residential suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, located at the foot of Table Mountain and Devil's Peak.It is sandwiched between the two neighbouring suburbs of Oranjezicht and Devil's Peak Estate, the latter of which is often considered a sub-suburb of Vredehoek as they both fall under the neighbourhood watch community called ...