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Stellenbosch (/ ˈ s t ɛ l ə n b ɒ s /; [3] Afrikaans: [ˈstælənˌbɔs]) [4] [5] is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, situated about 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Cape Town, along the banks of the Eerste River at the foot of the Stellenbosch Mountain.
English: Map of municipal boundaries in the Western Cape, as they will be after the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, with the Stellenbosch Local Municipality highlighted in red. Based on File:Map of the Western Cape with municipalities blank (2011).svg.
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Old Main Building, University of Stellenbosch, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch This building was erected between 1880 and 1886 to provide proper housing for the Stellenbosch College. This so-called Main Building is in the Neo-Classical style, Carl Hager being the architect, and played an important part in the history of the Victoria College and ...
Stellenbosch Municipality (Afrikaans: Stellenbosch Munisipaliteit, Xhosa: uMasipala wase Stellenbosch) is the local municipality that governs the towns of Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Pniel, and the surrounding rural areas, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The village was named after James Rattray (1859–1938), [16] [17] a Stellenbosch businessman who owned a butchery in Dorp Street. [12] He was the grandson of Scottish teacher James Rattray (c. 1795–1864) who immigrated to the Cape Colony in 1822, one of several British people recruited to the colony by Scottish missionary George Thom at the ...
Stellenbosch Local Municipality: WC024 Cape Winelands Stellenbosch: 831 173,197 208.4 Swartland Local Municipality: WC015 West Coast Malmesbury: 3,707 133,762 36.1 Swellendam Local Municipality: WC034 Overberg Swellendam: 3,835 40,211 10.5 Theewaterskloof Local Municipality: WC031 Overberg Caledon: 3,259 117,167 36.0 Witzenberg Local ...
Stellenbosch office of the Cape Winelands District Municipality. The boundaries of this municipality, which covers an area of 22,289 square kilometres (8,606 sq mi), [2] coincide roughly with the boundaries of the geographical area that has been known since the early days of the Cape Colony as "The Boland".