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Vida e Caffè opened their first shop on Kloof Street, Cape Town, in October 2001. As of May 2020, they own 350 stores; 330 throughout South Africa and 20 on the rest of the African continent, [2] including over 100 stores in the Western Cape Province, 100 in Gauteng, 20 in KwaZulu-Natal, 13 in Ghana, four in Mauritius and two in Zambia.
The Metlife Centre is a 28-floor, 118 ft skyscraper in Cape Town, South Africa. Construction work on the skyscraper was completed in 1993. [1] The building will be converted into a residential complex which will be named The Sky Hotel 3. Work to renovate the building began at the beginning of 2020. [2]
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]
Western Cape; December 14, 2009 DHL Stadium: Green Point: 58,310 1997 Bellville Velodrome: Bellville: 10,000 May 19, 1971 Artscape Opera House: Cape Town: 1,487 June 2003 Cape Town International Convention Centre: 1,500 Unknown The Side Show: 1,800 October 2007 GrandWest Grand Arena 7,000 [13] 1888 DHL Newlands: 52,000 c. 1915 Cycad ...
In 1885 Groot Constantia was purchased by the government of the Cape of Good Hope and was used as an experimental wine and agricultural estate. [2] Following a disastrous fire in 1925 the house was extensively restored. [3] In the year 1925 the manor house completely burnt down. Funds were raised to reconstruct it to its original Cape Dutch ...
The Planet Hollywood bombing was a terrorist bomb attack that took place at the Planet Hollywood restaurant at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa. On the night of 25 August 1998 a bomb detonated beneath the footrest of the bar at the restaurant. [4]
Greenmarket Square in 1762 with the Old Town House in the background. In the years following Cape Town's establishment in 1652 a number of streets came into existence above Strand Street (which followed the natural shoreline) and the Company Gardens which initially functioned as a market garden run by the Dutch East India Company to supply ships.
Kloof Nek Road, one of South Africa's oldest roads, was built in 1848 as an access road for the suburban pass with the same name which was used primarily as a look-out post for soldiers and a supply route to Camps Bay.