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This is a list of suburbs in the City of Cape Town, South Africa, which includes the city of Cape Town, as well as its surrounding suburbs and exurbs. [1] Each section on this page separates a specific region of Cape Town, in alphabetical order. Within each region, there is a table, with its respective suburbs listed in alphabetical order.
Cape Town's Southern Suburbs lie to the Southeast of the slopes of Table Mountain within rich valleys and vast plains reaching from just south of the Table Bay industrial neighbourhoods in the north to the False Bay coastal suburbs and the Cape Peninsula cliffs to the south, and are crossed North-South by the M3 and M5 freeways. In general ...
The first permanent title of land in southern Africa was issued, by Van Riebeeck, to the four free burghers of Rondebosch. [2] The area only obtained recognition as a separate village or area of Cape Town after the 1830s. [2] In 1864 the area was connected by railway upon the competition of the Cape Town to Wynberg line. [6]
The homestead and part of the farm was sold to the University of Cape Town in 1924 and the homestead was used as a hostel by South African College Schools. [6] Cape Town municipality purchased the property from the university in 1930. [6] They demolished the homestead and created public recreational fields on the land. [6]
It is located at the foot of Table Mountain in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, and is the wettest suburb in South Africa due to its high winter rainfall. [2] The neighborhood of Bishopscourt is situated to its southwest, Claremont to its southeast, and Rondebosch to its east and northeast.
Tamboerskloof is a neighbourhood and suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. [3] It lies on the slopes of Lion's Head and Signal Hill , adjacent to the neighbourhoods of Gardens and Bo-Kaap . Tamboerskloof is one of the contiguous group of neighbourhoods referred to as the City Bowl .
She was also the first South African actress to walk the red carpet at the 72nd Venice Film Festival in light of her role in The Endless River (2015). She and her husband are local residents in Boston. [13] Donovan Wright, South African Marathon runner and Comrades marathon Gold medallist, came from an underprivileged past to end up in Boston ...
Cape Town first received local self-government in 1839, with the promulgation of a municipal ordinance by the government of the Cape Colony. [4] When it was created, the Cape Town municipality governed only the central part of the city known as the City Bowl, and as the city expanded, new suburbs became new municipalities, until by 1902 there were 10 separate municipalities in the Cape ...