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unusual facts about F.C. Cape Town



Amandla Development

Currently, Amandla is engaging stakeholders in the Philippi, Cape Town area.

Artillery Memorial, Cape Town

Artillery originally refers to any weapon used by infantry releasing greater amounts of ammunition through a projectile head.

Brian Victor Beck

Beck was licensed, prior to ordination, as a Sub-deacon at St Michael and All Angels, an Anglo-Catholic parish in Observatory, Cape Town.

Cape Argus Pick 'n Pay Cycle Tour

It then heads north along the Atlantic coast through Scarborough, Kommetjie, Noordhoek, Chapmans Peak, Hout Bay over Suikerbossie hill to Camps Bay and ends next to the Cape Town Stadium in Green Point.

Cape Town peace march

The march began near Cape Town's St George's Cathedral and proceeded down Adderley Street, ending at the Grand Parade.

Claremont, Cape Town

The distinguished British astronomer Sir John Herschel put the area on the map by living at Feldhausen (formerly Veldhuyzen) from 1834 to 1838.

In 1863, the Anglo-Italian immigrant and businessman John Molteno, who was later to become the Cape Colony's first prime minister, bought 140 acres of land centred around the Claremont House estate.

Constantia, Cape Town

In 1661, during the Dutch conquest of Sumatra, Sheik Abdurachman Matebe Shah and his companion Sheikh Mahmoud were banished to Constantia by the Dutch.

Edward Woore

After Parsons' death on 30 September 1934, Woore took over and completed many of Parsons' commissions, such as the north transept window of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.

Erica turgida

This Erica used to grow naturally in the area that is now beneath the Cape Town suburbs of Rondebosch, Kenilworth and Wynberg.

Ernest Glanville

Ernest Glanville (born 5 May 1855 in Wynberg, South Africa—died 6 September 1925 in Rondebosch, South Africa) was a South African author, known especially for his short stories which are widely read and taught in South Africa.

George Thomas Napier

The town of Napier, Western Cape, is named for Sir George Thomas Napier as is Napier House at Fairbairn College, Goodwood, Cape Town.

Gregoire Boonzaier

Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier (31 July 1909 Newlands, Cape Town - 22 April 2005 Onrus, near Hermanus) was a versatile and prolific South African painter of landscapes, portraits, still lifes, seascapes and figures in oil, watercolour, ink, wash, pencil and charcoal, and a large number of linocuts.

John Harfield Tredgold

Tredgold married Elizabeth Merrington in Cape Town on New Year's Day 1825 in St Georges Cathedral before it was rebuilt.

Kenilworth, Cape Town

The attack took pack at a turbulent time in South African history, during the country's transition from apartheid to its first truly democratic elections in 1994.

Lady Anne Barnard

A chamber in the Castle of Good Hope is known as "Lady Anne Barnard's Ballroom"; a road in the suburb of Newlands, where the Barnards lived, is named "Lady Anne Avenue" and a carved sculpture of her is displayed in the foyer of the civic centre in the neighbouring suburb of Claremont.

Léandre Tawamba

Léandre Tawamba career is linked with Cameroonian clubs Union Douala, Aigle Royal Menoua and South African FC Cape Town and also Mpumalanga Black Aces, In summer 2012, he was on an unsuccessful trials in Slovak football clubs ŠK Slovan Bratislava and later at MFK Ružomberok.

Lucy Lloyd

After living at first in New Street, the Bleek family moved to The Hill in Mowbray.

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.

Moraea aristata

Consequently it is critically endangered and naturally survives only in the grounds of the South African Astronomical Observatory in the suburb of Observatory near the foot of Devil's Peak.

Moraea aristata (Blue-eyed Uintjie or Blouooguintjie in Afrikaans) is a critically endangered species of plant in the genus Moraea, that is endemic to the city of Cape Town and is now restricted to the grounds of the Observatory in the Cape Town suburb of Observatory.

Nellie Shabalala

Tragedy struck Joseph when, in May 2002, Nellie was murdered in outside their home in Claremont by a masked gunman.

Nyanga, Cape Town

Nyanga is situated 26 kilometres from Cape Town along N2 highway, close to the Cape Town International Airport and next to the townships of Gugulethu and Crossroads.

Observatory, Cape Town

Beyond the astronomical observatory is Valkenberg psychiatric hospital, a Victorian building that has recently undergone extensive renovations.

There is also a shopping complex in St. Peter's square, which is located opposite Groote Schuur graveyard.

Oranjezicht

The Molteno Dam was built in 1877, to provide water for Cape Town by storing natural spring water from Table Mountain.

Ossie Newton-Thompson

A lawyer, he ran successfully in 1961 for a seat in South African parliament, as the United Party candidate for Pinelands.

Ottery, Cape Town

Every year the Youngsfield Military Base in Ottery hosts the Cape Argus Junior Cycle Tour on the 12 of March.

The Youngsfield Military Base, Royal Cape Golf Club and Cape Town's 'official' China Town are located in the suburb.

Overberg branch line

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

Pan Africanist Congress of Azania

People gathered in Sharpeville and Langa and Sobukwe and other top leaders were arrested and later convicted for incitement.

Pinelands railway station

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

Cape Flats Line trains travel from Cape Town through Pinelands and Athlone to Retreat.

Reggae

Reggae bands play regularly at community centres such as the Zolani center in Nyanga.

Richard Rive

Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.

SA Metal Group

In 1970, the restored body of a World War II Spitfire aircraft was mounted at the company’s Salt River, Cape Town premises where it became a world-famous landmark.

SANCCOB

The only seabird rehabilitation organization registered with the South African Veterinary Council, the non-profit centre is based at the Rietvlei Wetland Reserve in Table View, South Africa.

Sibusiso Ntuli

Sibusiso Spoko Ntuli (born 10 October 1988 in Umlazi) is a South African football midfielder who currently plays for F.C. Cape Town.

Sofia Hellqvist

Since 2010 Hellqvist spends most of her time in Langa, South Africa with Project Playground a center for abused and orphaned children, a center she and her sister Frida Vesterberg has started together.

Sri Lankan cricket team in South Africa in 2011–12

South Africa won the first Test in Centurion and Sri Lanka won the second in Durban, before South Africa won the third and deciding Test at Newlands, Cape Town, played from 3 to 6 January 2012.

SS Maori

She went aground a few kilometres south of the suburb of Llandudno.

Streptocarpus

In 1884, seed was collected in the mountains of the Transvaal gold fields, and sent to Kew by Mr E. G. Dunn of Claremont, Cape Town.

Strike Back: Vengeance

In one such instance locals portrayed a group of rioters in the township of Langa in Cape Town.

Tokaj

Tokai, a region of Cape Town, is named after the nearby mountains' resemblance to the hills of Tokaj-Hegyalja.

Two Oceans Marathon

The race starts in Newlands, and follows a more or less circular route through Muizenberg, Fish Hoek, over Chapman's Peak and Constantia Nek, and eventually finishes at the University of Cape Town campus.

Wingfield Aerodrome

Places in the vicinity of Cape Town known to be used as airfields included Kenilworth race course, Green Point Common and Green Point cycle track, Sea Point, Robben Island, Maitland Common, Rosebank Showgrounds and Mr Young's farm near Wynberg as well as local beaches.


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