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Chapman's Peak is a mountain on the western side of the Cape Peninsula, between Hout Bay and Noordhoek in Cape Town, South Africa. The western flank of the mountain falls sharply for hundreds of metres into the Atlantic Ocean, and a road, known as Chapman's Peak Drive, hugs the near-vertical face of the mountain, linking Hout Bay to Noordhoek.
The first permanent title of land in southern Africa was issued, by Van Riebeeck, to the four free burghers of Rondebosch. [2] The area only obtained recognition as a separate village or area of Cape Town after the 1830s. [2] In 1864 the area was connected by railway upon the competition of the Cape Town to Wynberg line. [6]
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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 .
Robertson is a town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, known as the valley of wine and roses, at the heart of the wine route - Route 62. [ 3][ 4] Founded in 1853 and named after Dr William Robertson [ af], a Scottish Dutch Reformed Church minister. [ 5]: 302. Situated in the fertile Robertson Valley, farming and wagon building were ...
Location map of Cape Town. / -34; 18.625. Module:Location map/data/South Africa Western Cape Greater Cape Town is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Cape Town. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
www .naspers .com. Naspers Limited is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town, with interests in online retail, publishing and venture capital investment. Naspers' principal shareholder is its Dutch listed investment subsidiary Prosus, which owns approximately 49% of its ...
Bette Midler talks to the TODAY show's Hoda Kotb about her new movie, "The Fabulous Four," and reflects on her other iconic roles in "Beaches," "Hello Dolly!" and more.