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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."
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town: 5–13 New Zealand: 8 14 August 1937 Athletic Park, Wellington 13–7 New Zealand: 1937 South Africa tour of Australia and New Zealand: 9 4 September 1937 Lancaster Park, Christchurch: 6–13 South Africa: 10 25 September 1937 Eden Park, Auckland 6–17 South Africa: 11 16 July 1949 Newlands Stadium, Cape Town 15–11
A learner's licence is required to take driving lessons on a public road and to obtain a driver's licence and is valid for 24 months. Testing for the learner's license occurs at a registered driving licence testing centre (DLTC). The learners licence test covers: Rules of the road; Road traffic signs, signals and road markings; Usage a vehicle ...
Wellington-Cape Town railway begins operating. [9] Harbor works begun. [3] Public Library building constructed. [4] Telegraph begins operating (Simon's Town – Cape Town). [9] Cape Town High School was founded. 1861 Bellvile was founded; first Railway station built. 1863 Horsecar trams begin operating. Grey Library opens. [24] 1864 ...
Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [13] Cape Town is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [14] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
2 February – Thomas Sturgess, an Indian cricketer, dies in Cape Town (b. 1898) 22 March – Peter Revson, American race car driver, died in pre-race crash at the South African Grand Prix in Midrand. (b. 1939) 3 April – Ossie Newton-Thompson, cricketer and politician. (b. 1920) 20 May – Leontine Sagan, director and actress. (b. 1889)
A photograph of the Port Elizabeth – Uitenhage railway line in 1877 The crest of the now defunct Cape Government Rails as seen in the Cape Town central train station. The Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways (SAR) in 1910.
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 ...