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18 unusual facts about Cape Province


Agathosma serratifolia

It is one of about 135 species mainly occurring in the south-western Cape Province.

Anton Murray

Anton Ronald Andrew Murray (30 April 1922 in Grahamstown, Cape Province – 17 April 1995 in Cape Town, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer who played in 10 Tests in a little over a year from December 1952 to February 1954, appearing four times against Australia and then six times against New Zealand.

Berseba

The first people to permanently settle at this place, then only known under its Khoikhoi name ǃAutsawises, were a group of Khoi herder clans from the Cape Province, driven across the Orange River by encroaching European settlers and the law enforcement of the Dutch East India Company.

Cape Province

It was by far the largest of South Africa's four provinces, as it contained regions it had previously annexed, such as British Bechuanaland (not to be confused with the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana), Griqualand East (the area around Kokstad) and Griqualand West (area around Kimberley).

The Cape Province was broken up into three smaller provinces: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape.

Cape Sugarbird

The characteristic strong winds in the Cape may make feeding off protea heads difficult, but the Cape Sugarbird has adapted to this with the development of sharp claws.

Diamond color

About 98% of gem diamonds are type Ia, and most of these are a mixture of IaA and IaB material: these diamonds belong to the Cape series, named after the diamond-rich region formerly known as Cape Province in South Africa, whose deposits are largely Type Ia.

Diamond type

Most Ia diamonds are a mixture of IaA and IaB material; these diamonds belong to the Cape series, named after the diamond-rich region formerly known as Cape Province in South Africa, whose deposits are largely Type Ia.

Empleurum unicapsulare

Empleurum unicapsulare or False Buchu, is a South African shrub belonging to the family Rutaceae and occurs from the south-western districts of the Cape Province to the Uitenhage area.

Geraniaceae

Pelargonium has its centre for diversity in the Cape region in South Africa, where there is a striking vegetative and floral variation.

House of Assembly of South Africa

Throughout its history, it was exclusively constituted of white members who were elected to office predominantly by white citizens, though until 1960 and 1970, respectively, some Black Africans and Coloureds in the Cape Province enjoyed a restricted form of suffrage.

Protea aristata

Found on northern and southern slopes in a 60km stretch of the Swartberg mountains of the Cape Province, South Africa, between the altitudes of 750 and 2000m.

Protea compacta

Its natural habitat is a narrow region of the south western Cape Province, and it occurs at altitudes less than 100m above sea level, in poor, sandy, generally highly leached acidic soils.

Riverine rabbit

This rabbit has an extremely limited distribution area, found only in the central and southern regions of the Karoo Desert of South Africa's Cape Province.

Streaky-headed Seedeater

humilis of the southwestern Cape has almost unstreaked upperparts, and S. g. reichardi, (southern Zaire to southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique) has a distinctly streaked breast even in adult plumage.

Van Zyl's golden mole

Van Zyl's golden mole was initially known only from Compagnies Drift, 16 km (10 mi) inland from Lambert's Bay, northwestern Cape Province, South Africa.

Van Zyl's golden mole (Cryptochloris zyli) is a golden mole endemic to the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Western Cape Division

Originally the Cape Division had jurisdiction over the whole of the Cape Province, although concurrently with the Eastern Cape (Grahamstown) and Griqualand West (Kimberley) Local Divisions in their areas of jurisdiction.


Albert Hoffa

Albert Hoffa (31 March 1859 - 31 December 1907) was a German surgeon, orthopedist and physiotherapist born in Richmond, Cape of Good Hope.

Anatoma agulhasensis

This marine species occurs off South Africa from the Cape Province to Zululand; off Australia.

Bill Lundie

Eric Balfour 'Bill' Lundie (born 15 March 1888 in Willowvale, Cape Province, died 12 September 1917 in Passchendaele, Belgium) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1914

Boer Republics

The Boer Republics (sometimes also referred to as Boer states) were independent self-governed republics created by the northeastern frontier branch of the Dutch-speaking (proto Afrikaans) inhabitants of the north eastern Cape Province and their descendants (variously named Trekboers, Boers, Afrikaners and Voortrekkers) in mainly the northern and eastern parts of what is now the country of South Africa.

David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss

He married, 1st, in 1940 Mavis Lynette Gordon Murray (d. 1988), daughter of Edwin Edward Murray, of Hermanus, Cape Province, South Africa.

Fengu people

They were previously known in English as the "Fingo" people, and they gave their name to the district of Fingoland (Mfenguland), the South West portion of the Transkei division, in the Cape Province.

Josiah Zion Gumede

He was educated at the David Livingstone Memorial Mission and Matopo Mission before matriculating in the Cape Province (South Africa) in 1946.

Neil Snyman

Neil Martin Snyman (born March 4, 1963, Prieska, Cape Province) is a former Boland and Western Province cricketer.

Pegomastax

This specimen was found in Voyizane, Joe Gqabi District, Cape Province, in rocks of the upper Elliot Formation, a rock formation that dates to the early part of the Early Jurassic (HettangianSinemurian, approximately 200 to 190 million years ago).

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Regiment Oranjerivier

The Regiment was founded as an Afrikaans language unit on 12 September 1952 as Regiment Noordwes-Kaap ("Regiment North-West Cape"), but this name was changed in the same year to Regiment Hertzog.

South African Constitution of 1961

In the Cape and Transvaal, the provincial councils consisted of the same number of members as the number of members of the House of Assembly elected from the province, elected from the same electoral divisions.

Zimbabwe national rugby union team

When the Pioneer Column arrived in Rhodesia from the Cape Province in 1890 it brought with it the country's first rugby players.