Cape Town

Definition: Cape Town

Cape Town

Noun

1. Port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa.

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Crosswords: Cape Town

The Cape Town Affair (1967)

Cape Town 2 (1996)

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Books

• Cape Town (reference)

• Cape Town & Surrounds Adventure Map (reference)

• Cape Town Destination Map (reference)

• Coloured by History, Shaped by Colour: New Perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town (Social Identities South Africa) (reference)

• Fodor's Pocket Cape Town (Fodor's Pocket Cape Town) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Cape Town Affair (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cape Town Flowers (reference)

• Cape Town Revisited (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Captain Raphael Semmes, Alabama's commanding officer, standing by his ship's 110-pounder rifled gun during her visit to Capetown in August 1863. His executive officer, First Lieutenant John M. Kell, is in the background, standing by the ship's wheel. The original photograph is lightly color-tinted and mounted on a carte de visite bearing, on its reverse, the mark of E. Burmester, of Cape Town. See photo numbers NH 57256-KN for the colored image and NH 57256-A for a reproduction of the carte de visite's reverse.Credit: NAVY.

South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town.Credit: Library of Congress.

South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

In the second phase of the project, towards 2004, the consortium exploring Kudu is considering a gas pipeline to Cape Town to drive a new power station in the Western Cape. This could supply Saldanha Steel and South African consumers via the Cape Town municipality. (references)

Children

South Africa

Child prostitution increased, primarily in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. (references)

South Africa

In November a 9-month-old girl was raped in Cape Town; six men were arrested for the crime. (references)

South Africa

In December 1999, a Cape Town High Court heard a case brought by residents of a squatter camp petitioning for government-provided housing. (references)

Civil Liberties

South Africa

Two workshops were held early in the year in Durban and Cape Town with senior journalists on the issue of racism. (references)

South Africa

In late September, the offices of the Muslim Judicial Council in Cape Town were firebombed, causing superficial damage to the building's facade. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Johannesburg is 456 miles from Durban and 954 miles from Cape Town. (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

In 2000 two guards were shot to death in Cape Town in what police believe was a strike-related attack. (references)

South Africa

On March 2, a police captain shot three times and killed Makawe Makiti in Kabalskraal, near Cape Town. (references)

South Africa

There was no further action on the March 1999 killing in Cape Town of one ANC member and four UDM members. (references)

Political Economy

South Africa

The Democratic Alliance, however, controls the Western Cape Province, and its major city, Cape Town. (references)

South Africa

Areas where political violence continues, though in much fewer instances, include parts of the south coast and midlands of KwaZulu-Natal and in some of the townships near Cape Town. (references)

Travel

South Africa

South Africa's country code is 27. The city codes for major South African cities are: Johannesburg, 11; Pretoria, 12; Cape Town, 21; and Durban, 31. The United States can be dialed directly from South Africa using the country code 091. Peak rate calls (called standard time) to the U.S. are from 07:00 a.m. to 07:00 p.m., Monday to Friday and discount rate calls (called callmore time) are from 07:00 p.m. to 07:00 a.m. Monday to Friday. (references)

Women

South Africa

In July students at a girls' high school in Cape Town organized a demonstration in which thousands of students joined hands to form a solidarity chain for a young girl who had been raped. (references)

Worker Rights

South Africa

Molo Songololo, an NGO in Cape Town, conducted a 2000 study of 44 women working in the sex industry in the country and found that women who are trafficked to the country are 18 to 25 years of age with limited English skills, limited job opportunities, and dependent families. (references)

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