Cape Town

Or Capetown

noun

a seaport in and the legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa, in the SW part: also capital of Cape of Good Hope province.

Cape Town

noun

the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 827 219 (2001)

Cape Town

Also Capetown; legislative capital of South Africa. (See also Pretoria.)

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Capetonian noun

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In the 19th and early 20th Centuries Swedish explorers, ethnographers and botanists would pay to travel on British ships to Cape Town and then make their way inland by rail and foot.

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It was shown during a hearing in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, ahead of the sentencing of Joshlin's mother - a drug addict who is believed to have sold her for money.

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The 38-year-old white South African often takes snapshots capturing scenes such as a cold Johannesburg morning, the purple Jacaranda trees famously associated with Pretoria or Cape Town's popular beachfronts.

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In the Netflix documentary, “My Octopus Teacher,” filmmaker Craig Foster documents the life and death of an octopus in the waters off Cape Town, South Africa.

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I'm in Cape Town now but, mentally, I live in Dakar.

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