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South Africa has typical weather for the Southern Hemisphere, with the coldest days in June–August. On the central plateau, which includes the Free State and Gauteng provinces, the altitude keeps the average temperatures below 20 °C (68 °F); Johannesburg, for example, lies at 1,753 metres (5,751 ft). In winter temperatures can drop below ...
Very high human development 1 Hessequa: 0.81 High human development 2 Swellendam: 0.79 3 Bitou: 0.78 City of Cape Town: 0.78 Mossel Bay: 0.78 4 Cape Agulhas: 0.77 Knysna: 0.77 5 George: 0.76 Oudtshoorn: 0.76 Saldanha Bay: 0.76 6 Drakenstein: 0.75 Overstrand: 0.75 Stellenbosch: 0.75 Theewaterskloof: 0.75 – Western Cape (average) 0.755: 7 ...
Khayelitsha (/ ˌ k aɪ. ə ˈ l iː tʃ ə /) is a township in Western Cape, South Africa, on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. The name is Xhosa for New Home . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is reputed to be one of the largest [ 4 ] and fastest-growing townships in South Africa.
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.
Gugulethu, along with Nyanga, was established in the 1960s due to the overcrowding of Langa, which was the only black residential area for Cape Town at the time. During the Apartheid era, black South Africans were not permitted to live in the city of Cape Town, and many people were removed from areas such as District Six to Gugulethu, Nyanga ...
The 1999 Manenberg tornado was a rare tornado that occurred in the Cape Town neighborhood of Manenberg, South Africa killing five people on the night of 29 August 1999.Wind speeds were recorded reaching over 150 km per hour. [2]
The tramway to Sea Point and Cape Town is visible in the foreground. The first residents of Camps Bay were the San (Hunter Gatherers) and the Goringqhaique, Khoi pastorates. When Jan van Riebeek established a refreshment station for the VOC (Dutch East India Company), the Twelve Apostles were covered in forests with lion , leopard and antelope .
Molteno (/ m ɒ l ˈ t iː n oʊ / mol-TEE-noh; Xhosa: eMolteno [emolˈtɛːno]) is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.. High in the Stormberg Mountains, Molteno has recorded South Africa's coldest temperatures at the famous Buffelsfontein weather station and it is close to the country's only ski resort.