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5 unusual facts about Bellville, Western Cape


Die Matie

8,000 copies of the newspaper are distributed on the main campus of Stellenbosch, as well as on the three satellite campuses, the medical campus at Tygerberg, military campus at Saldanha and business school in Bellville.

Foto na Dans

Foto Na Dans (English: Photo After Dance) is a five piece Afrikaans progressive rock band from Bellville, South Africa, fronted by singer/songwriter Le-Roi Nel (vocals, guitar).

Latitude Varsity

Latitude Varsity is a small university located in Bellville, South Africa.

Minki van der Westhuizen

Van der Westhuizen was born in Durbanville, Cape Town to an Afrikaner family and attended Stellenberg High School in nearby Bellville.

Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa

SAR’s Bellville quarry in the Tygerberg hill, employing Zwillinge locomotives.


Aloe plicatilis

In the wild, Aloe plicatilis is confined to a tiny area in the Western Cape, between the town of Franschhoek and Elandskloof.

Bevan Fransman

Bevan Fransman (born 31 October 1983 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a South African footballer, currently playing as a centre back for SuperSport United and the South African national team.

Bloukrans Bridge

The Bloukrans River below forms the border between the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces and is located in the Tsitsikamma region of the Garden Route.

Bradley August

Bradley John August (born 24 September 1978 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a South African football (soccer) who can play as defender, midfielder and striker for Premier Soccer League club Vasco Da Gama and South Africa.

Cape grysbok

The Cape or southern grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) is a small antelope that is endemic to the Western Cape region of South Africa between Albany and the Cederberg mountains.

Carpobrotus deliciosus

This coastal strip extends along the whole of the Eastern Cape coast, but also extends into the Western Cape as far as Riversdale and into neighbouring Kwazulu-Natal.

COSAT

Centre of Science and Technology (COSAT) is the first of three STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) schools in the Western Cape of South Africa.

Eben Dönges High School

Eben Dönges High School (Hoërskool Eben Dönges) is a government-funded, Afrikaans-medium high school in Kraaifontein, Western Cape, South Africa.

Elegia tectorum

E. tectorum is found in marshes and seeps on deep sand in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Elizabeth Triegaardt

In 2003, she received an award from the Western Cape Premier, Ebrahim Rasool, for meritorious service to the Arts in the Province.

Elytropappus rhinocerotis

Although the Renosterveld Vegetation Type is confined to the South-Western Cape of South Africa, the Renosterbos plant is much more widespread - occurring throughout the Cape Floristic Region and further, as far east as Molteno in the Eastern Cape, and as far north as Namibia.

Fadlu Davids

Fadluraghman "Fadlu" Davids (born May 21, 1981 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a retired South African football (soccer) striker who last played for Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United.

Huguenot railway station

Huguenot railway station is the main passenger railway station in the town of Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa.

KBAL

KULF (1090 AM), a radio station licensed to Bellville, Texas, which was KBAL briefly in late 2009

Kogelberg

The Kogelberg is a range of mountains along the False Bay coast in the Western Cape of South Africa.

Maria Eriksson

Eriksson had no intention of becoming a model but after completing her undergraduate degree, worked for a short time in London as house model for top London designers Bellville Sassoon and Zandra Rhodes.

Mark Romanchuk

Romanchuk represents the 124,475 residents of Richland County, including Mansfield, Shelby, Ontario, Lexington and Bellville, Ohio.

Masiphumelele High School

Masiphumelele High School is a publicly owned secondary school (grades 8-12) in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, in the Western Cape region of South Africa.

Misverstand Dam

Misverstand Dam is a combined gravity & arch type dam located on the Berg River, near Porterville, Western Cape, South Africa.

Mtutuzeli Hlomela

Mtutu had played soccer at junior level and at age 17, won a "football" scholarship through the South Australian and Western Cape sports ministries.

Mutual railway station

Mutual is a particularly busy station because it is the junction at which the Central Line towards Mitchell's Plain and Khayelitsha diverges from the Northern Line main line to Bellville.

Overberg branch line

Metrorail services of the Northern Line operate from Cape Town through Bellville to Strand; the rest of the line has no regular passenger service.

The line branches from the BellvilleStellenbosch line at Eerste River, from which it runs through Faure and Firgrove to Somerset West.

The Overberg branch line is a railway line in the Western Cape, South Africa, that runs from Cape Town through Somerset West and Caledon to Bredasdorp.

Overberg District Municipality

The Overberg District Municipality is a district municipality that governs the Overberg region in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Paranomus

The species occur mainly in mountainous areas of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces from the Cederberg to Uitenhage, with the highest numbers found in the districts of Caledon, Worcester and Swellendam.

People Against Gangsterism and Drugs

Violent acts such as bombings and vigilantism in Cape Town subsided in 2002, and the police have not attributed any such acts to PAGAD since the November 2002 bombing of the Bishop Lavis offices of the Serious Crimes Unit in the Western Cape.

Phil Liggett

He spends most of his leisure time in South Africa where he has a house in the Western Cape and a game farm near the Kruger National Park.

Pieter van Dalen

Van Dalen was born in the town of Kuils River in the Western Cape and attended De Kuilen High School He is a Democratic Alliance member of the Parliament of South Africa and DA Deputy Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises.

Pinelands railway station

Central Line trains travel from Cape Town through Pinelands and Langa to Mitchell's Plain, Khayelitsha and Bellville.

Prionium serratum

This species has a disjunct distribution along the southern and south-eastern seaboard from the Western Cape to KwaZulu-Natal on sandstone substrates, growing in dense mats in marshy areas, and in and along streams and rivers.

Several rivers in the Western Cape have have been named Palmiet River for this species growing along their courses - two of the larger ones are the Palmiet River mouthing between Betty's Bay and Kleinmond, and one having its source just west of Formosa Peak and eventually joining the Keurbooms River.

Provincial governments of South Africa

The only province that has adopted a constitution is the Western Cape; in doing so it chose to rename its legislature the Provincial Parliament.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

South African Class 3E

E201, one of two known survivors of the Class, is being staged under a shelter at the Bellville locomotive depot in Cape Town along with a few other early SAR electric locomotives that were earmarked for preservation.

South African Class 6E

After four of these blue Class 6E1 locomotives were damaged in a collision between two Trans Karoo passenger trains at Gouda, the Bellville Depot was authorised to repaint eight Class 6E locomotives in Spoornet’s orange era Blue Train livery.

The Themba Development Project

The Themba Development Project was founded in 2008 when its founder, Catherine Robar viewed the substandard living conditions of the people living in Thembalethu, an informal settlement near the city of George in the Western Cape Province.

Van der Westhuizen

The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).

William Crump

Settling his family along the Brazos River east of Bellville, not far north of San Felipe, where Stephen F. Austin had earlier founded the headquarters of his first colony, Crump established a plantation.


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