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  2. Western Cape - Wikipedia

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    The Western Cape (Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]; Xhosa: iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of 129,449 square kilometres (49,981 sq mi), and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020. [8]

  3. Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    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. [12] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [13] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.

  4. Economy of the Western Cape - Wikipedia

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    The economy of the Western Cape in South Africa is dominated by the city of Cape Town, which accounted for 72% of the Western Cape's economic activity in 2016. [7] The single largest contributor to the region's economy is the financial and business services sector, followed by manufacturing.

  5. List of South African provinces by Human Development Index

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    Western Cape: 0.755 2 Gauteng: 0.739 3 Limpopo: 0.722 – South Africa (average) 0.717: 4 Free State: 0.716 5 KwaZulu-Natal: 0.714 6 Northern Cape: 0.705 Medium human development 7 Mpumalanga: 0.682 8 North West: 0.680 9 Eastern Cape: 0.678

  6. Wolseley, South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Wolseley Blockhouse built in 1901 during Anglo-Boer War. Wolseley is a small town in the upper Breede River Valley region of the Western Cape province of South Africa. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,528 people. [ 1 ] It is located 90 kilometres (60 mi) northeast of Cape Town, in the Land van Waveren valley between the Waterval ...

  7. Cape Town water crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...

  8. Democratic Alliance (South Africa) - Wikipedia

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    The Democratic Alliance is a South African political party which is a part of the current South African Government of National Unity (GNU) together with the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), and several others. The party has been the second-largest in South Africa since its foundation in 2000.

  9. History of the Cape Colony before 1806 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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