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unusual facts about West Coast, Western Cape


South African mullet

Mullet fish caught in the sea and estuaries of the West Coast region are processed by salting and air-drying into bokkoms by small local factories around Velddrif and Laaiplek.


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.

Bobby Day

He went several years with minor musical success limited to the West Coast, including being the original "Bob" in the duo Bob & Earl.

Boland Cavaliers

They draw players from the Cape Winelands and West Coast districts of Western Cape Province, and play out of Wellington at Boland Stadium.

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.

Domestic partnership in the United States

Since 1999, the West Coast states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada have all passed domestic partnership statutes; in contrast, most legislatures in the New England region and New Jersey have preferred the term civil unions.

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.

Frederic Whitcombe

Henry Whitcombe, after whom Whitcombe Pass in the Southern Alps is named, drowned in 1863 in the Taramakau River on one of his many West Coast exploration trips.

Gladding, McBean

While many of the buildings throughout the west coast have been demolished such the Richfield Tower in Los Angeles, beautiful examples remain such as San Diego's Spreckels Theater and the Ventura County Courthouse.

HMCS CC-2

The ship was assigned to the west coast in the home port of Esquimalt, British Columbia, and conducted training operations and patrols for three years.

Huguenot railway station

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

Joe Mondragon

Over the next two decades, he became one of the more popular studio bassists for jazz recording on the West Coast, appearing on albums by June Christy, Shorty Rogers, Shelly Manne, Buddy Rich, Buddy DeFranco, Marty Paich, Claude Williamson, Georgie Auld, Chet Baker, Bob Cooper, Harry Sweets Edison, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, Bud Shank and Ella Fitzgerald.

KBLA

As acts such as Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash, and the Beastie Boys became popular in the US, KDAY brought their sounds to a new audience on the West Coast.

Lafayette Guild

The following year, he moved to the West Coast to direct the military hospital in the Presidio of San Francisco, where he was stationed when the Civil War erupted.

Lake Paringa

Lake Paringa is a small lake 30 kilometres north of Haast on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

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.

Overberg branch line

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.

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.

Ragnar Hasselgren

Ragnar Hasselgren was a Swedish-born singer and recording artist, who was active on the West Coast during the 1940s and 1950s.

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.

Sam Cutler

The Altamont Free Concert was planned and put together by a loose amalgamation of West Coast American bands which included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills and Nash, Santana, and others.

Specky Magee

He supports five AFL teams, something he cops a lot of flack for: Essendon, Brisbane, Collingwood, Sydney and West Coast.

The Japanese School Singapore

There are two separate elementary schools of the JSS in Clementi and Changi, while junior high school division is located in West Coast.

The Luminaries

The plot follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the fledgling West Coast of the South Island settlement of Hokitika, near New Zealand's goldfields in 1866 to try and make his fortune.

The Parvatibai Chowgule College

Smt Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts & Science, also referred to as Chowgule College or just Chowgules is a college based in the South Goa district of Margao, on the west coast of India.

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).

West Coast Wilderness Railway

The most accessible recent writer regarding this railway is Lou Rae, as he has written a number of books about West Coast railways.

Wolverton and Greenleys

The parish is bounded to the north by the River Great Ouse, to the east by the West Coast railway line, to the south by the Millers Way (H2) grid road, and to the west by the A5.


see also

Sneeuberg

Sneeuberg, highest peak in the Cederberg mountains, West Coast, Western Cape, South Africa