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The biodiverse ecosystem that exists in South Africa is the foundation that provides one of the most prosperous game meat in the African continent. The land displays a diverse array of animals such as the Big Five ; lion , leopard , rhinoceros , elephant , and Cape buffalo. [ 6 ]
The Royal Cape Golf Club, South Africa's oldest club, had its beginning on 14 November 1885 when Lt Gen Sir Henry Torrens, Governor of the Cape Colony chaired a meeting at the Cape Town Castle "for the purpose of introducing the game of golf and starting a club for the same". It was on Waterloo Green at the Wynberg Military Camp that the club ...
1903–1961, 567 kilometres (352 mi) in German South-West Africa (today's Namibia). Built at the gauge of 600 mm, which did not prevent exchanging locomotives with the two foot (610 mm) lines in South Africa when it was taken over by South Africa (as part of the British Empire) in 1915. Regauged to cape gauge.
The Brown's Farm area is a neighborhood located within the Philippi area of Cape Town's Cape Flats region, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The urban area is densely populated and contains many informal homes. The 2011 national census recorded 71,518 residents living in the area. Brown's Farm also has the greatest deals in Cape Town.
It is known as the “mother synagogue” of South Africa. [6] The twin-towered 'new' synagogue was built in 1905. Gardens, Vredehoek and Sea Point have traditionally attracted Jewish communities. [12] Cape Town Holocaust Centre, Africa's first Holocaust centre, founded in 1999
This was the only town in the Cape in which such land with full title deeds, water rights and grazing rights was for sale to anyone. In the 1860s, Herbert married a young girl of British stock named Elizabeth Belshaw – 27 years his junior. They settled on their farm, De Bos, in the village (subdivided by his heirs after his death in 1895).
Pella is an oasis in Namakwa (Bushmanland) in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Earlier known as Cammas Fonteyn, the spring was used by a nearby stronghold of San people. In 1776 a South African Dutch farmer called Coenraad Feijt settled there and lived in harmony with the San despite their fondness for raiding the cattle of the Dutch ...
The Foreshore is an area in Cape Town, South Africa, situated between the historic city centre and the modern Port of Cape Town.It is built on land reclaimed from Table Bay in the 1930s and 1940s in connection with the construction of the Duncan Dock to replace the old harbour.