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The first Woolworths store, in the stately dining room of The Royal Hotel, Cape Town. Braai-related display inside a Woolworths store in The Constantia Village shopping center, in Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa. The choice of name came from Sonnenberg's friendship with a London shipper and financier, Percy (P.R.) Lewis.
IN 1920, Sonnenberg moved to Cape Town, where he became chairman of the Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry and founded a number of important companies. In 1931, he founded Woolworths (Edms.) Beperk , one of South Africa 's first and most successful store chains, and remained its chairman and manager until his death. [ 1 ]
SweepSouth is a South African on-demand [1] online platform for domestic cleaning services. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the first end-to-end booking platform for home cleaning services in Southern Africa. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Cavendish Square is a shopping centre in Claremont, Cape Town. It was at the time the largest upscale centre to open in Cape Town and was a project of Stuttafords department store. Original tenants included a full-line Stuttaford's store, a Greatermans department store, whose space was later taken by Garlicks. The centre opened September 7, 1972.
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The V&A Waterfront is a central part of the very beginning of the settlement of the city of Cape Town. [14] In 1654, two years after his arrival in this relatively safe bay at the foot of Table Mountain, Jan van Riebeeck built a small jetty as part of his task to establish a refreshment station at the Cape. [14]
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] It 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.