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  2. University of Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    The University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874 [9] that grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the financial boost it needed ...

  3. University of Cape Coast - Wikipedia

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    Ranked by Times Higher Education as the Best University in Ghana. The University of Cape Coast (UCC) is a public collegiate university located in the historic town of Cape Coast in the central region of Ghana. [2] The campus has a rare seafront and sits on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It operates on two campuses: the Southern Campus ...

  4. University of Central Florida - Wikipedia

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    The University of Central Florida ( UCF) is a public research university with its main campus in unincorporated Orange County, Florida. It is part of the State University System of Florida. With 68,442 students as of the fall 2022 semester, UCF has the fourth-largest on-campus student body of any public university in the United States.

  5. History of Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Sources: 1658–1904, [1] 1950–1990, [2] 1996, [3] 2001, and 2011 Census; [4] 2007, [5] 2016 Census estimates. [6] The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was ...

  6. List of Cape Town suburbs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of suburbs in the City of Cape Town, South Africa which includes the city of Cape Town and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs. Each suburb is followed by its postcode. The first code is for street deliveries, the second, where applicable, refers to PO boxes. Some suburbs share the same postcode.

  7. Constantia, Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Constantia is an affluent suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, situated about 15 kilometres south of the centre of Cape Town. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious suburbs in South Africa. The Constantia Valley lies to the east of and at the foot of the Constantiaberg mountain. Constantia Nek is a low pass linking to Hout Bay in the ...

  8. University Estate - Wikipedia

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    University Estate. /  33.93889°S 18.45139°E  / -33.93889; 18.45139. University Estate is a mainly residential suburb of Cape Town located at the foot of Devil's Peak to the east of the city. University Estate has the postcode 7925.

  9. District Six - Wikipedia

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    ANC election poster linking rival parties to the history of forced removals. District Six ( Afrikaans: Distrik Ses) is a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1966, the apartheid government (the National Party) announced that the area would be razed and rebuilt as a "whites only" neighbourhood under the Group Areas ...