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The suburb includes the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Town, which is known as Bishopscourt, [2] whence comes the name of the suburb. [3] In 2015, it was ranked the sixth richest suburb in South Africa with an average property value of R11 million. [4] The area hosts a large number of foreign consulates and embassies in Cape Town. [5]
The first glass manufactured in South Africa was made at the Woodstock Glass Factory in 1879. [ citation needed ] With the massive land reclamation of Table Bay in the 1950s to create the Cape Town foreshore Woodstock beach was lost, and combined with the increasingly industrial nature of the suburb, Woodstock ceased to be a seaside resort.
The main house of the Groot Constantia vineyard near Cape Town. Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style found mostly in the Western Cape of South Africa, but modern examples of the style have also been exported as far afield as Western Australia and New Zealand, typically on wine estates.
The Old Mutual business has a long history. In 1845 John Fairbairn (a Scot) founded "The Mutual Life Assurance Society of the Cape of Good Hope" in Cape Town.Over the next 100 years the business was to evolve significantly, changing its name in 1885 to the "South Africa Mutual Life Assurance Society", but becoming familiarly known simply as "The Old Mutual", so as to distinguish it from newer ...
This is a list of suburbs in the City of Cape Town, South Africa, which includes the city of Cape Town, as well as its surrounding suburbs and exurbs. [1] Each section on this page separates a specific region of Cape Town, in alphabetical order. Within each region, there is a table, with its respective suburbs listed in alphabetical order.
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St James is a seaside village on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, situated on the False Bay coast between Muizenberg and Kalk Bay. [2] The village is situated between the rocky shore and a steep mountain, and measures about 200m by 2 km. Its name derives from the early St James Catholic Church, built circa 1880.