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  2. Cape Dutch architecture - Wikipedia

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    The main house of the Groot Constantia vineyard near Cape Town. Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style found mostly in the Western Cape of South Africa, but modern examples of the style have also been exported as far afield as Western Australia and New Zealand, typically on wine estates. The style was prominent in the early days ...

  3. Houses of Parliament, Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Houses of Parliament, Cape Town. /  33.92611°S 18.41917°E  / -33.92611; 18.41917. The Houses of Parliament of South Africa are situated in Cape Town. The building consists of three main sections: the original building, completed in 1884, and additions constructed in the 1920s and 1980s. The newer additions house the National Assembly ...

  4. Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    GMP per capita (2011) US$19,656 [8] Website. capetown.gov.za. 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. [11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [12]

  5. Tuynhuys - Wikipedia

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    The Tuynhuys is a South African Heritage Site. Location. Cape Town, South Africa. Built. 1682 (in 1682 the toolshed that was built in 1674 was converted into a guesthouse, enlarged and renovated until 1751) Architect. Josephus Jones. Architectural style (s) Cape Dutch.

  6. Nobel Square - Wikipedia

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    Nobel Square is a public square in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa. It opened in December 2005 and includes sculptures of the country's four Nobel Peace Prize winners, Albert Lutuli, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk, and Nelson Mandela. The square was the brainchild of Ebrahim Rasool, Premier of Western Cape ...

  7. Parliament of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The buildings of the Cape Parliament went on to house the Parliament of South Africa, after union. 1910–1994. When the Union of South Africa was established in 1910, the Parliament was bicameral and consisted of the King or the Queen, the Senate, and the House of Assembly (known in Afrikaans as the Volksraad).

  8. Groote Schuur - Wikipedia

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    Groote Schuur in 1899. Groote Schuur ( [ɣroːtə sxyːr], Dutch for "big shed") is an estate in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1657, the estate was owned by the Dutch East India Company which used it partly as a granary. Later, the farm and farmhouse was sold into private hands. Groote Schuur was later acquired by William De Smidt, and remained ...

  9. National Assembly of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape.It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation system where half of the members are elected proportionally from nine provincial lists and the remaining half from national lists so as to restore ...

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