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  2. Category:People from Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Andrew St John, 21st Baron St John of Bletso. Gayaat Salie-Hlophe. Stuart Saunders (academic) Ashton Schippers. Steven Schkolne. Grant Schreiber. Carmel Schrire. Selwyn Selikowitz. Hillel Abbe Shapiro.

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

  4. Khayelitsha - Wikipedia

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    PO box. 7783. Khayelitsha ( / ˌkaɪ.əˈliːtʃə /) 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] It is reputed to be one of the largest [3] and fastest-growing townships in South Africa.

  5. Cape of Good Hope - Wikipedia

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    The Cape of Good Hope ( Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop [ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp]) [a] is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa . A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and ...

  6. Knysna - Wikipedia

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    Knysna (/ ˈ n aɪ z n ə /) is a town with 76,150 inhabitants (2019 mid-year estimates) in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is one of the destinations on the loosely defined Garden Route tourist route. It is situated 60 kilometres east of the city of George on the N2 highway, and 33 kilometres west of the Plettenberg Bay on the ...

  7. Robben Island - Wikipedia

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    Robben Island ( Afrikaans: Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, north of Cape Town, South Africa. It takes its name from the Dutch word for seals ( robben ), hence the Dutch/Afrikaans name Robbeneiland, which translates to Seal (s) Island . Robben Island is roughly oval in shape ...

  8. Sea Point - Wikipedia

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    Sea Point (Afrikaans: Seepunt) is an affluent and densely populated suburb of Cape Town, situated between Signal Hill and the Atlantic Ocean, a few kilometres to the west of Cape Town's Central Business District (CBD). Moving from Sea Point to the CBD, one passes first through the small suburb of Three Anchor Bay, then Green Point.

  9. Atlantis, South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Atlantis, South Africa. /  33.567°S 18.483°E  / -33.567; 18.483. Atlantis is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa and is 40 km (25 mi) north of Cape Town. [2] [3] As of 2011, it has 67,491 residents. Unemployment, lack of housing and crime are major challenges in the area.