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Stellenbosch Municipality (Afrikaans: Stellenbosch Munisipaliteit, Xhosa: uMasipala wase Stellenbosch) is the local municipality that governs the towns of Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Pniel, and the surrounding rural areas, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Stellenbosch (/ ˈ s t ɛ l ə n b ɒ s /; [3] Afrikaans: [ˈstælənˌbɔs]) [4] [5] is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, situated about 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Cape Town, along the banks of the Eerste River at the foot of the Stellenbosch Mountain.
Oudtshoorn Local Municipality: WC045 Garden Route Oudtshoorn: 3,540 97,509 27.5 Overstrand Local Municipality: WC032 Overberg Hermanus: 1,675 93,407 55.8 Prince Albert Local Municipality: WC052 Central Karoo Prince Albert: 8,153 14,272 1.8 Saldanha Bay Local Municipality: WC014 West Coast Vredenburg: 2,015 111,173 55.2 Stellenbosch Local ...
The municipalities of South Africa as of 2016. This is a list of municipalities of South Africa. The largest metropolitan areas are governed by metropolitan municipalities, while the rest of the country is divided into district municipalities, each of which consists of several local municipalities.
The village was named after James Rattray (1859–1938), [16] [17] a Stellenbosch businessman who owned a butchery in Dorp Street. [12] He was the grandson of Scottish teacher James Rattray (c. 1795–1864) who immigrated to the Cape Colony in 1822, one of several British people recruited to the colony by Scottish missionary George Thom at the ...
The following map depicts the provinces and districts of South Africa. The district municipalities are labelled with numbers that correspond to their district code, while the metropolitan municipalities are labelled with letters that correspond to their names. Further details of the districts are listed in the table that follows the image.
Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa, which received full university status in 1918. [5] Stellenbosch University designed and manufactured Africa's first microsatellite, SUNSAT , launched in 1999.
Raithby is a village in the Stellenbosch Local Municipality. As of the 2011 census, the village had a population of 908. [1] It lies on the western side of the R44, just off the Winery Road that leaves the R44 to connect Stellenbosch with Firgrove. Amenities in Raithby include a Methodist church [2] and a church-owned primary school. [3]