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Cape Town Civic Centre

The Cape Town Civic centre is a building in the centre of Cape Town. This building houses the municipality of the City of Cape Town. It ...

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Old Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.

As the town of Cape Town grew in size and sophistication, so then its management ... fires had already threatened the life of a number of Cape villages, it was decided to establish a fire brigade for the town, with ...

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The first tramway company in Cape Town, the 'Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company', commences operations with a horse-draw

... Day The first tramway company in Cape Town, the 'Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company', commences operations ...

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City Hall, Cape Town

City Hall. Source: Cape Town in the twentieth century, South Africa, David Philip Publishers This is a large Edwardian building in the centre of Cape Town city. It was built in 1905, on the Grand parade, west of the Castle ...

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Cape Town Timeline 1300-1997

... as the dominant power in the southern and south-western Cape regions. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 The ... as the dominant power in the southern and south-western Cape regions. 1460 Portuguese navigators, representing the interests of ... with the coast of Southern Africa. Timeline: Cape Town 1600-1699 The Castle of Good Hope. Source: ...

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Articles & books relating to Cape Town

... V. C , Illegitimacy and Family Formation in Colonial Cape Town, to c. 1850 in the Journal of Social History - Volume 39, Number 4, ...

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Sir Christoffel Joseph Brand (77), first speaker of the Cape parliament, dies in Cape Town.

... Sir Christoffel Joseph Brand (77), first speaker of the Cape parliament, dies in Cape Town. (Archive Day) ...

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Saul Solomon, printer who represented Cape Town in the Cape parliament, is born on St Helena.

... Saul Solomon, printer who represented Cape Town in the Cape parliament, is born on St Helena. (Archive Day) ...

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Riebeeck Square, Cape Town.

... Square developed during the 18th century, when the town began to expand laterally into the Table Valley, and marks the point where ... their wagons. This changed after the annexation of the Cape by the British in 1806, when a new market was established immediately east ...

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Malay Quarter, Cape Town

The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered a ... of Apartheid legislation. It is one of the oldest parts of Cape Town, and is one of the few to have retained some of its historical ...

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