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The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was 'ǁHui ǃGais' – a toponym in the indigenous Khoe language meaning "where clouds gather."
Wellington-Cape Town railway begins operating. [9] Harbor works begun. [3] Public Library building constructed. [4] Telegraph begins operating (Simon's Town – Cape Town). [9] Cape Town High School was founded. 1861 Bellvile was founded; first Railway station built. 1863 Horsecar trams begin operating. Grey Library opens. [24] 1864 ...
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.
January. 1 – Gideon Brand van Zyl is appointed the 7th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. March. 12 – The South African Indian Congress delegation is received by the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, in Delhi, India, and submits a petition drafted in consultation with Mohandas Gandhi.
18-19 – Four explosions cause massive damage at the Koeberg nuclear power station just north of Cape Town. 31 – A bomb damages the Johannesburg Magistrates court 200m from John Vorster Square. One person is killed and 70 injured in a bomb blast at the Southern Free State Administration Board in Bloemfontein. Unknown date
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 ...
The building was constructed in 1700 by the Dutch East India Company as a residence for important visitors to the Cape, lies between the South African National Parliament buildings and the President's Council in Company's Gardens, Cape Town. It has been used as an official residence by almost all the governors of the Cape – Dutch, Batavian ...
Noah's Ark Battery (1890–1940s) – Simon's Town Sea Point Battery (1891–1928) – present Sea Point Junior School site Lion Battery (born 1891) – Signal Hill