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The Houses of Parliament is the meeting place of the Parliament of South Africa, the legislative body of the Government of South Africa. The building is located in South Africa's legislative capital, Cape Town. The building consists of three main sections; the original building - completed in 1884 - and additions, constructed in the 1920s and ...
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 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.
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 Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature. It is located in Cape Town , the country's legislative capital . Under the present Constitution of South Africa , the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces .
Cape Town City Hall is a large Edwardian building, built in 1905, and located in Cape Town's city centre. It is located on the Grand Parade , to the west of the Castle , and is built from honey-coloured oolitic limestone, imported from Bath in England .
The St. Mary's Cathedral [1] [2] more formally known as the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flight into Egypt, is the cathedral and mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town, located in the City Bowl of Cape Town, South Africa. [3] [4] in South Africa. It lies in Stalpein directly opposite the Houses of Parliament.
This is a list of the heritage sites in Cape Town's CBD, the Waterfront, and the Bo-Kaap as recognized by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. [1] [2]For additional provincial heritage sites declared by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage resources authority of the Western Cape Province of South Africa, please see the entries at the end of the list.