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A CODETA minibus taxi in Cape Town. The pink and blue CODETA logo is visible on the back of the vehicle to the left of the number plate. The 2021 Cape Town taxi conflict was a violent turf war between the minibus taxi operators Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA) and Congress of Democratic Taxi Association (CODETA) over lucrative taxi ...
The term taxi war refer to the turf wars fought between taxi associations and individual minibus taxi drivers in South Africa from the late 1980s to the present day. [1] [2] The multi-billion rand minibus taxi industry carries over 60% of South Africa's commuters. [1] [3] Generally speaking, these commuters are all of the lower economic class ...
Kalamansig, officially the Municipality of Kalamansig (Maguindanaon: Inged nu Kalamansig, Jawi: ايڠد نو كلمانسيݢ), is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 50,900 people. [3] The main means of livelihood of the people is farming and fishing.
Military history of Cape Town (2 C, 15 P) R. Robben Island (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "History of Cape Town" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 ...
The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was 'ǁHui ǃGais' – a toponym in the indigenous Khoe language meaning "where clouds gather."
During World War II, South Africa's ports and harbours, such as at Cape Town, Durban, and Simon's Town, were important strategic assets to the British Royal Navy. South Africa's top-secret Special Signals Service played a significant role in the early development and deployment of radio detection and ranging (radar) technology used in ...
The film tells the Afrikaans version of the history of South Africa from 1652 to 1910 with a focus on the Great Trek. [ 25 ] A number of Afrikaans organisations such as the Afrikaner Broederbond and Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging continued to promote the centenary's goals of furthering the Afrikaner cause and entrenching a greater sense ...
The written history of the Cape Colony in what is now South Africa began when Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias became the first modern European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. [1] In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India, landed at St Helena Bay for 8 days, and made a detailed ...