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Claremont is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated 9 kilometres south of the city, and is one of the so-called " Southern Suburbs ", it is situated alongside Lansdowne . It is an important commercial and residential area, which is currently experiencing significant growth and development.
About 10,000 Dutch families, for various reasons, left for the north in search of new land, thereby opening up the interior of the country. Further political development occurred in 1840 when the Cape Town Municipality was formed. At its inception, the population stood at 20,016, of which 10,560 were white.
Interior of the library. Central Library Cape Town is a public library in Cape Town, South Africa. It is one of 104 libraries within the City of Cape Town Library and Information Services. [2] Central Library includes lending and reference services as well as specialised art and music sections. There are 90 plus computers plus free Wi-Fi for ...
The establishment of the college library was made possible through donations from residents of Cape Town and prominent figures in the society of the time. Professor W.S. Logeman,a multilingual philologist at the then South African College (SAC) was the founder of what became the University Library. [ 5 ]
The most likely model for Cape Town's "Public Library" was the London Institution (established in 1805 in the style of an Athenaeum). [3] The Library's first significant acquisition was the collection of Joachim Nikolaus von Dessin , who bequeathed his books to the Dutch Reformed Church in 1761 to serve as the foundation of a public library. In ...
Cape Town's Southern Suburbs lie to the Southeast of the slopes of Table Mountain within rich valleys and vast plains reaching from just south of the Table Bay industrial neighbourhoods in the north to the False Bay coastal suburbs and the Cape Peninsula cliffs to the south, and are crossed North-South by the M3 and M5 freeways. In general ...
Sir Lowry's Pass. View from Sir Lowry's Pass towards Somerset West and Helderberg. Sir Lowry's Pass is a mountain pass on the N2 national road in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It crosses the Hottentots Holland Mountains between Somerset West and the Elgin valley, on the main route between Cape Town and the Garden Route.
The Grove is one of the oldest schools in South Africa and was founded in 1885 as the Feldhausen School, named after Feldhausen Estate, which was a farm prior to the founding of the school. The school is still adjacent to Feldhausen Road. The premises contain the Sir John Frederick William Herschel obelisk, dedicated to the famous British ...