Rondebosch
| Rondebosch | |||
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 57 '48 " S , 18 ° 28' 35" E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Western cape | |||
| metropolis | City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA toilet | ||
| surface | 6.4 km² | ||
| Residents | 14,591 (2011) | ||
| density | 2,272.7 Ew. / km² | ||
 Sights in Rondebosch
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Rondebosch is a southern residential suburb of Cape Town . It lies at the foot of the Devil's Peak , which is part of the Table Mountain massif, and is part of the Municipality of Cape Town . In 2011, around 14,600 people lived here on an area of 6.42 km², of which 63 percent described themselves as “White” and 17 percent as “Black African”.
history
In 1659 the first nine Dutch farmers settled on the Liesebeeck, a brook in Rondebosch. The place got its name after a thorn bush species ( Ronde Doorn Bosje ). Since the 19th century mainly English-speaking (the first Anglican church was built in 1832 ), Rondebosch was a whites-only area during the apartheid period (settlement area exclusively for whites). Nevertheless, the district was traditionally considered liberal and was in opposition to apartheid politics; he was a stronghold of the Progressive Federal Party , which in 1989 in the Democratic Party , now the Democratic Alliance , went up.
Today the population is more mixed.
Colleges and schools
Rondebosch is the location of the oldest university in South Africa , the University of Cape Town (UCT), which was founded in 1829 and is located on the slope of Devil's Peak and according to the 2010 World University Rankings is considered the best university in Africa. Four of its graduates are Nobel Prize winners .
The Anglican Diocesan College ("Bishops") for boys, founded in 1849, was attended by many prominent British and South Africans, among others. a. the astronaut Mark Shuttleworth ; and the architect and town planner William Holford, Baron Holford .
The traditional rival of bishops is the Rondebosch Boys' High School founded in 1897 by the Dutch Reformed Church . Nobel Prize winner Allan McLeod Cormack is one of her alumni .
The building of the Rustenberg Junior School dates back to the 17th century and was the residence of the first governor of the Cape Colony , Simon van der Stel .
Others
Rondebosch has stadiums for rugby , cricket , hockey , soccer and tennis , several parks, a theater as well as railway and motorway connections. At the Groote Schuur Estate, built by Cecil Rhodes , there is a memorial to the British colonial politician.
Web links
- History and sights (English; PDF)