Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Cape Town station taxi deck, 2001. In 1996, Codeta and CATA signed an agreement, facilitated by the provincial transport department and ordered by the high court, over the control of routes in the Western Cape. Codeta was allocated Khayelitsha and most areas south of the R300, including Khayelitsha, while CATA was allocated areas north of the ...
Nampak, Africa's largest packaging company, [4] is one of the largest companies to have operations in Epping. Other large companies in Epping Industria are SA Metal Group, Distell Ltd, AVI Ltd and Afrox. The Cape Town Market is one of the oldest and largest fresh produce markets in South Africa. It is over 50 years old and services over 5500 ...
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. [13] Cape Town is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [14] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
Report of the Select Committee on the Petition of Jacob Lurie, Cape Town, Cape Times Ltd., Government Printers, 1909 Tavern of the Seas by Lawrence G. Green, 1947, Chapter Fourteen - Atlantic Coast The Lion Mountain and the story of Bantry Bay, Clifton and Camps Bay on the Atlantic Coast of the Cape Peninsula by Mona de Beer, ISBN 0869611518
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 ...
Cape Town City Hall is a large Edwardian building, built in 1905, and located in Cape Town's city centre. It is located on the Grand Parade , to the west of the Castle , and is built from honey-coloured oolitic limestone, imported from Bath in England .
The first glass manufactured in South Africa was made at the Woodstock Glass Factory in 1879. [ citation needed ] With the massive land reclamation of Table Bay in the 1950s to create the Cape Town foreshore Woodstock beach was lost, and combined with the increasingly industrial nature of the suburb, Woodstock ceased to be a seaside resort.
The French Consulate General in Cape Town, according to the archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs is, the oldest in Southern Africa. In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte nominated a certain Gaillande "superintendent of trade relations in Cape Town", equivalent to what is now the rank of Vice-Consul. His responsibility was to provide ...