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Cape Town[ a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [ 11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [ 12] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality .
Kaapse Klopse. The Kaapse Klopse (or simply Klopse ), formerly known as the Coon Carnival and officially called Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, is a Cape coloured minstrel festival that takes place annually on 2 January in Cape Town, South Africa. It is also referred to as Tweede Nuwe jaar (Second New Year).
Cape Coloureds(Afrikaans: Kaapse Kleurlinge) are a South Africanethnicclassification consisting primarily of persons of mixed raceAfrican, Asian and European descent. Demographics. [edit] Although Colouredsform a minority group within South Africa, they are the predominant population group in the Western Cape.
The Cape Malays ( Afrikaans: Kaapse Maleiers, کاپز ملیس in Arabies script) also known as Cape Muslims [ 16] or simply Malays, are a Muslim community or ethnic group in South Africa. [ 11] The Cape Malay identity can be considered the product of a set of histories and communities as much as it is a definition of an ethnic group.
PO box. 7783. Khayelitsha ( / ˌkaɪ.əˈliːtʃə /) is a township in Western Cape, South Africa, on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. The name is Xhosa for New Home. [ 2] It is reputed to be one of the largest [ 3] and fastest-growing townships in South Africa.
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 ...
Kaaps ( UK: / kɑːps /, meaning 'of the Cape'), also known as Afrikaaps, [1] is a West Germanic African language that evolved in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its status as a sister language of Afrikaans [1] or a dialect of Afrikaans is unclear. [2] [3] Since the early 2020s there has been a significant increase in the number of ...
Cape Flats English (abbreviated CFE) or Coloured English is the variety of South African English spoken mostly in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. Its speakers most often refer to it as "broken English", which probably reflects a perception that it is simply inadequately-learned English, but, according to Karen Malan, it is a distinct, legitimate dialect of English.