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Assumed office 1 June 2018 (Acting: 1 November 2016 – 31 May 2018) Appointed by: Jacob Zuma: Judge of the High Court; In office 15 February 2013 – 31 May 2018: Appointed by: Jacob Zuma: Division: Western Cape: Personal details; Born 19 June 1958 (age 66) Athlone, Cape Town Cape Province, Union of South Africa: Alma mater: University of ...
A post office was established in 1858, seven years after the town's founding, this led to an era of development for the area. In 1859 a magistrates office was opened and in 1860 a police station was opened and the town's first medical doctor arrived. In 1861 a prison was opened in the town, it closed 107 years later in 1968.
When the Cape Town's Unitarian minister died in 1997, Oliver became the congregation's unofficial minister as a volunteer, and in 2000 the church hired him as minister in training. He studied in England and at the University of South Africa and was officially recognized as a minister in 2002 by the British General Assembly . [ 3 ]
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 ...
In 1956, Robb led a mass march to Cape Town, protesting changes to the Constitution. [3] Robb ran the Black Sash Advice Office in Cape Town which was founded in 1958. [ 11 ] This office helped black women deal with legal issues created by apartheid , as well as other types of problems they may have faced. [ 3 ]
Daniël Cornelis Boonzaier (11 November 1865 – 20 March 1950), more commonly known as D.C. Boonzaier, was a South African cartoonist. [1] [2] He was famous for his caricatures of Cape politicians and celebrities at the turn of the century, and later for his anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist cartoons for Die Burger.
The Rev Barry Shucksmith from the Pinelands, Cape Town congregation took these lectures in the capacity as tutor until his return to England, and to the independent Anglican church based in the UK where he was made a bishop. In 1976, Rev David Streeter joined the Institute and later became warden of George Whitefield House based at that same ...
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 .