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The Western Cape (Xhosa: iNtshona-Koloni; Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of 129,449 square kilometres (49,981 sq mi), and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020. [8]
The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...
It was established in 1978 and is the largest dam in the Western Cape Water Supply System with a capacity of 480 million cubic metres, about 41% of the water storage capacity available to Cape Town, which has a population of over 4 million people. [1] The dam mainly serves for municipal and industrial use as well as for irrigation purposes.
Western Cape north of Cape Town: Thukela Water Management Area: 1 110: 7: Thukela River: Western KwaZulu-Natal: Upper Orange WMA: 11 566: 13: Modder River, Riet River, Caledon River and Orange River: Southern Free State: Upper Vaal WMA: 5 630: 8: Wilge River, Liebenbergsvlei River and Vaal River: Gauteng, northern Free State, southern Mpumalanga
It is situated in the Warmbokkeveld (English: "warm antelope field") Valley about 170 km north-east of Cape Town. Ceres is located at the north-eastern entrance to Michell's Pass and was the old route north between Cape Town and Johannesburg, which was later replaced by the N1 highway, which traverses the Breede River Valley to the south.
This is a list of the heritage sites in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, as recognized by the South African Heritage Resource Agency. [1]For additional provincial heritage sites declared by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage resources authority of the Western Cape Province of South Africa, please see the entries at the end of the list.
The council of the West Coast District Municipality consists of twenty-five councillors, of whom ten are directly elected by party-list proportional representation.The other fifteen councillors are appointed by the councils of the five local municipalities in the district: Saldanha Bay appoints five, Swartland appoints four, and Matzikama, Cederberg and Bergrivier appoint two each.
Hermanus lies along Walker Bay on the south coast of the Western Cape. It is located about 115 km southeast of Cape Town and is connected to the Mother City by the R43 highway (or coastal R44 scenic route) and N2 motorway. The R43 continues to Cape Agulhas, the most southerly point of Africa.