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The Northern Cape is also home to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), which is located 75 km North-West of Carnarvon. The economy of the Northern Cape relies heavily on two sectors, mining and agriculture, which employ 57% (Tertiary Sector) of all employees in the province. [citation needed
Vryburg and Mafikeng, in the north eastern extremity of the former Cape Province - and hence regarded as part of the pre-1994 "Northern Cape" - are excluded, being part, now, of the North West Province in the North. A History of the Northern Cape, properly speaking, would cover this recent period only. The different regional histories of the ...
Some quasi-provincial infrastructure was in place from the 1940s, but in the post-1994 period Kimberley underwent considerable development as administrative departments were set up and housed for the governance of the new province. A Northern Cape Legislature was designed and situated to bridge the formerly divided city.
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Upington (Khoekhoe: ÇKhara hais) is a town founded in 1873 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River.The town was originally called Olijvenhoutsdrift ('Olive wood drift'), due to the abundance of olive wood trees [clarification needed] in the area, but later renamed after Sir Thomas Upington, Attorney-General and then Prime Minister of the Cape.
De Aar is a town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It has a population of around 42,000 inhabitants. [1] It is the second-most important railway junction in the country, situated on the line between Cape Town and Kimberley. The junction was of particular strategic importance to the British during the Second Boer War.
The town was established in 1843 in South Africa's inland plateau. [ 3 ] : 299 It was founded to meet the religious needs of a growing farming community, but unlike most Karoo towns the church was not built as the physical focal point of the village; rather, the centrepiece is the village square.
Table Mountain is at the northern end of a sandstone mountain range that forms the spine of the Cape Peninsula that terminates approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) to the south at the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point. Immediately to the south of Table Mountain is a rugged "plateau" at a somewhat lower elevation than the Table Mountain Plateau ...