Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is the second most populous city in South Africa and provincial capitals and major cities of the Western Cape. As the headquarters of the National Parliament, also the capital of the state legislature. This is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan city. The city is famous for its harbor as well as the natural setting in the Cape flower kingdom, including such famous venues such as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Cape Town is also Africa's most popular tourist destinations.
Located on the shores of Table Bay, Cape Town was originally developed by the Dutch East India Company as a station (supply) victualling for Dutch ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India and the Far East. Jan van Riebeeck arrival on 6 April 1652 established the first permanent European settlement in South Africa. Cape Town quickly outgrew its original purpose as the first European post in the Castle of Good Hope, into the economic and cultural center of Cape Colony. Until the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the development of Johannesburg, Cape Town is the largest city in South Africa.
Today is one of the most multicultural cities in the world, reflecting its role as a major destination for immigrants and foreigners in South Africa. Since 2007 the city has an estimated population of 3.5 million. Cape Town land area of 2455 square kilometers (948 square miles) is larger than the cities of South Africa, hence the relatively low population density of 1425 inhabitants per square kilometer (3690 / km ²)
History
A painting of Jan van Riebeeck arrival in Table Bay
There is no certainty about when humans first occupied the area in front of the first visit of Europeans in the 15th century. The earliest known remains in the region are found in the Cave of Fish Hoek and Peer in dates between 15,000 and 12,000 years ago. Little is known about the history of the region's first inhabitants, as there is no written history of the area before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1486. Vasco da Gama recorded sighting of the Cape of Good Hope in 1497. At the end of the 16th century, Portuguese, French ships, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK regularly stop at Table Bay en route to the Indies. They traded tobacco, copper and iron with the Khoikhoi of fresh meat. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck and other employees of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) delivered to the Cape to establish a way-station for ships traveling to the Netherlands East Indies, and goede Fort Hoop (later replaced by the Castle of Good Hope). The city grew slowly during this period, because it is difficult to find adequate employment. This lack of jobs prompted the government to import slaves from Indonesia and Madagascar.
Many of the ancestors of the first Cape colored communities.Under Van Riebeeck and his descendants as a VOC commander and governor of the Cape, an impressive range of useful plants introduced to the Cape - in the process of changing the environment forever. Some of them, including wines, cereals, peanuts, potatoes, apples and citrus fruit, has a significant and lasting impact on communities and local economies.
During the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the Dutch repeatedly occupied by France, and Britain moves to master the Dutch colony. Britain captured Cape Town in 1795, but the Cape back to the Netherlands with an agreement in 1803. British forces occupied the Cape again in 1806 after the Battle of Bloubergstrand. In the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, Cape Town surrender to the UK permanently. It became the capital of the newly formed Cape Colony, whose territory expanded very substantially through 1800.
The discovery of diamonds in Griqualand West in 1867, and the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in 1886, triggering a flood of immigrants into South Africa. [Quote needed] The conflict between the Boer republics in the interior and the British colonial government resulted in the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, which won the UK. In 1910, Britain created Union of South Africa, which unified the Cape Colony with the two Boer republics were defeated and the British colony of Natal. Cape Town became the legislative capital of the Union, and later the Republic of South Africa.
Nobel Square at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.
In the 1948 national elections, the National Party won on a platform of apartheid (racial segregation) under the slogan "swart gevaar". This causes the Group Areas Act, which classified all areas according to race. Before the multi-racial suburbs of Cape Town either purged of unlawful residents or destroyed. The most famous example of this in Cape Town was District Six. Having declared a whites only area in 1965, all the houses there were destroyed, and more than 60,000 residents were forcibly removed .. Many of the residents moved to the Cape Flats and Lavender Hill. Under apartheid, the Cape is considered the "colored labor preference area", to the exclusion of "Bantus", ie blacks.
Cape Town is home to many leaders of the anti-apartheid movement. On Robben Island, a former prison island 10 kilometers from the city, many famous political prisoners were held for many years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela delivered his first public speech in decades from February 11, 1990 from the balcony of Cape Town City Hall after hours of release. His speech announcing the beginning of a new era for the country, and the first democratic elections took place four years later, on April 27, 1994. Nobel Square at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront features statues of four South African Nobel Peace Prize winners - Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled with issues such as HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, drug-related crime and violence rising anti-foreign violence later. At the same time, the economy soared to unprecedented levels due to a boom in tourism and real estate industries.
Geography
A Landsat image of Cape Town, overlaid on SRTM elevation data. Excessive elevation by a factor of two.
Cape Town city center situated at the northern tip of the Cape Peninsula. Table Mountain forms a dramatic backdrop City Bowl, with its plateau over 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) high, surrounded by almost vertical cliffs, Devils Peak and Lion Head. Sometimes a thin strip of cloud forms over the mountain, and because of its appearance, it is colloquially known as the "tablecloth". This peninsula consists of a dramatic mountainous spine jutting south into the Atlantic Ocean, ending at Cape Point. There are more than 70 peaks over 1,000 feet (300 m) (U.S. definition of a mountain) within Cape Town's official city limits. Many of the suburbs of Cape Town is in the plains of the Cape Flats, which joins the peninsula to the mainland. Cape Flats lie on what is known as a rising marine plain, consisting mostly of sandy geology which shows that at one point Table Mountain itself is an island.
Climate
Cape Peninsula has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen CSA), with mild, wet season and dry season and very hot. In the winter time, which lasts from early June to late August, a large cold fronts found from the Atlantic Ocean with heavy rain and strong west wind. Winter months are cool, with an average minimum of 7.0 ° C (45 ° F) and a maximum of 17.5 ° C (63 ° F). The city's annual rainfall occurs in winter, but due to the mountainous topography, rainfall amounts for specific areas can vary dramatically. Newlands, south of the city, is the wettest suburb in South Africa. Valleys and coastal plains average 515 millimeters (20.3 in) of rainfall per year, while the mountain areas can average as 1500 millimeters (59 in) per year.
Summer, which lasts from November to March, warm and dry. Peninsula gets frequent strong winds from the south-east, known locally as the Cape Doctor because it blows away pollution and cleans the air. South-easterly wind is caused by a high pressure system that sits in the South Atlantic west of Cape Town, known as the South Atlantic High. Summer temperatures are mild, with an average maximum of 26.5 ° C (80 ° F). Cape Town can be uncomfortably hot when the Berg Wind, meaning "mountain wind" blows from the Karoo interior for several weeks in February or early March.
Cape Town, The weather is very similar to San Francisco, with the exception of the temperature becomes apparent. Cape Town gets fewer hours of sunshine than San Francisco (3090 to 3030 hours), slightly less rainfall (515mm to 518mm) and a little less wind (medium-range 3 on the Beaufort scale with just under 50% probability of the wind, compared with a low Beaufort on average just over 50% probability of wind, 4). Cape Town, however, is significantly warmer, with temperatures around an annual average of 19 ° C (66 ° F) versus San Francisco, 13 ° C (55 ° F). On a scale, much smaller than the major national South African city, Cape Town, received the annual amount of precipitation is nearly identical Pretoria 517 mm (20.4 in), and far less than 828 mm in Durban (32.6 in). Especially, considering that 3094 hours of sunlight are very high by international standards, Cape Town actually received a little less sunlight than the national average for the South African sun. This is the most vibrant of the three capitals of South Africa (Bloemfontein receives 3470 hours of sunshine per year, and Pretoria receives 3300), and also less bright than the country's financial hub of Johannesburg (3250 hours), Kimberley (3,500 hours), Calvinia (3590 hours) and Upington (3840 hours). However, Cape Town over the subtropical Durban (2354 hours) with a lot in terms of sun, but much colder.
As a matter of fact, Cape Town gets more sunshine hours per year than almost any place in the tropical regions of both northern and southern hemispheres, as well as many Mediterranean climate regions because of the dry summer. Compared with other Mediterranean climate, Cape Town is a little warm but not hot. As an annual average, Cape Town (19 ° C (66 ° F)) is significantly warmer than Barcelona (16 ° C (61 ° F)), only warmer than Rome (18 ° C (64 ° F)) , fractional colder than Palermo, and Athens (20 ° C (68 ° F)), and just like Napoli. The city gets sun so much more than big cities in the Mediterranean, however, (eg, Athens (2800 hours per year) and Madrid (2830 hours per year)).
Water temperatures vary widely, between 10 ° C (50 ° F) on the Atlantic coast, at 22 ° C (72 ° F) in False Bay. Average annual ocean temperature between 13 ° C (55 ° F) on the Atlantic coast (similar to California waters, such as San Francisco and Big Sur), and 17 ° C (63 ° F) in False Bay (similar to the temperature of the North Sea , such as Nice or Monte Carlo).
Flora and fauna
Biodiversity Cape Town
CI is located in the Regional Biodiversity hotspots as well as the unique Cape flora, the city of Cape Town has one of the highest biodiversity of any region in the world equal.
It is home to a total of 19 types of vegetation, the few truly endemic to the city and going elsewhere in the world. [36] It is also the only habitat of hundreds of endemic species and hundreds of others, that it is important to limited or threatened. Great diversity, especially since the city is located in the unique meeting point of several different types of soil and microclimate.
Even the often quoted is that there are more native species only on Table Mountain than there is across the British Isles.
Unfortunately, rapid population growth and urban sprawl discuss this with the construction of many ecosystems. As a result, Cape Town now has more than 300 plant species are threatened and 13 are now extinct. In fact, Cape Peninsula, which lies entirely within the city of Cape Town has the highest concentration of threatened species from continental regions in the world of equal size. Small remnants of endangered plants or endangered species often survive on the streets, sidewalks and sports fields. The remaining part of ecosystems protected through a system of more than 30 nature reserves - including the great Table Mountain National Park.
City Bowl
City Bowl is a natural amphitheater-shaped area bordered Table Bay and is defined by the mountains of Signal Hill, Lions Head, Table Mountain and Devils Peak.
These areas include the central business district of Cape Town, the harbor, the Company Gardens, and the residential suburb De Waterkant, Devils Peak, District Six, Zonnebloem, Gardens, Bo Kaap, Higgovale, Oranjezicht, Schotsche Kloof, Tamboerskloof, University Estate, Vredehoek, Walmer Estate and Woodstock.
[Edit] northern outskirts
Most of the northern suburbs Afrikaans language, and including Bellville, Bothasig, Brooklyn, Burgundy Estate, Durbanville, Edgemead, Elsie River, Facreton, Goodwood, Kensington, Maitland, Monte Vista, Panorama, Parow, Richwood, Thornton, see Table, and Welgemoed .
[Edit] Eastern suburbs
Eastern suburbs including Fairdale, Brackenfell, Kraaifontein, Kuils River, Blue Downs, Belhar, Delft and Protea Hoogte.
Atlantic Coast
Camps Bay as seen from the ascent to the Lion Head.
A panoramic view of Hout Bay from Chapman's Peak. Chapman's Peak Drive can be seen at the base of the mountain.
Atlantic coast include Bantry Bay, Camps Bay, Clifton, Fresnaye, Green Point, Hout Bay, Llandudno, Mouille Point, Sea Point and Three Anchor Bay.
Southern suburbs
Southern suburbs including Rondebosch, Claremont, Plumstead, Ottery, Pinelands, Wynberg, Newlands, Bergvliet, Constantia and Bishopscourt.
Historic center of Simon's Town
South of the peninsula is generally regarded as the area south Muizenberg in False Bay and Noordhoek in the Atlantic Ocean, to Cape Point. Until now, this is quite rural, regional population is growing rapidly as new coastal developments proliferate and large packets are subdivided to provide more compact housing. These include the Capri Village, Clovelly, Fish Hoek, Glencairn, Kalk Bay, Kommetjie, Masiphumelele, Muizenberg, Noordhoek, Ocean View, Scarborough, Simon's Town, St James, Sunnydale, Sun Valley, and Steenberg.
Cape Flats
Cape Flats is a broad, low, flat area which is located in the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town. For most people in Cape Town, the area is known simply as' The Flats.
Described by some as a 'place of exile apartheid' in the 1950s this area became home to people the apartheid government designated as a non-White. Race-based legislation such as the Group Areas Act and pass laws and forced non-white people from more urban areas designated for whites, and in the cities of the government building in the Flats, or earn a living in the area illegally, forcing many people are designated as Black in informal settlements elsewhere in the Flats. Flats since become home to a majority of the population of Cape Town and surrounding areas.
West Coast
West coast, including Cape Town Bloubergstrand, Milnerton, tableview, West Beach, Atlantis, Melkbosstrand, Big Bay, Sunset Beach, Sunningdale and Parklands.
Government
Cape Town, the local government is the City of Cape Town, which is a metropolitan community. Cape Town is dominated by a 221-member council. The city is divided into 111 electoral wards, each ward directly select one member of the Board, while the other 110 MPs elected by party list system of proportional representation. Executive Mayor and the Executive Vice Mayor elected by the council.
In local government elections of May 18, 2011, the Democratic Alliance (DA) won a majority, with 135 of 221 council seats. The African National Congress, National Party, received 73 seats.As result of this victory Patricia from Lille, DA candidate city, was sworn in as mayor of the executive on June 1.
Demography
According to the South African National Census 2001, the population of the city of Cape Town metropolitan community - an area that includes the suburbs and exurbs are often considered not to be part of Cape Town - is 2,893,251 people. There are 759 767 formal households, which 87.4% have a flush or chemical toilets, and 94.4% have refuse removed by the community at least once a week. 80.1% of households use electricity as their main source of energy. 16.1% of households are headed by one person.
Coloured people is 48.13% of the population, followed by Black Africans at 31%, whites at 18.75% and 1.43% in Asia. In 1944, 47% of the population were white, 46% are colored, less than 6% were black African and 1% is Asian46.6% of the population is under age 24, while 5% are over 65. The average age in this city 26 years, and for every 100 females, 92.4 males. 19.4% of unemployed people, unemployment is 58.3% black, 38.1% are colored, 3.1% were white and 0.5% are Asian. In the real city of Cape Town, is a higher percentage of white people.
41.4% of the population of Cape Town speaking Afrikaans at home, 28.7% speak Xhosa, 27.9% spoke English, 0.7% speak Sotho, 0.3% speak Zulu, 0.1% speak Tswana and 0.7 % of the population speaks a non-official language at home. 76.6% of the population is Christian, religion 10.7%, Muslim 9.7%, 0.5% are Jewish and 0.2% Hindu. 2.3% have other or undetermined beliefs.
4.2% of the population aged 20 and over receive no education, 11.8% had primary, 7.1% have only completed primary school, 38.9% have a college education, 25.4% have only completed high school and 12.6% have higher education than high school level. Overall, 38.0% of the population graduated from high school. The median income for a year of working-age adults 20-65 is ZAR 25 774. Men have an average annual income compared to ZAR ZAR 27 406 22 265 for women.
Economy of Western Cape
Cape Town beach area with a business center in the background near.The main entrance to the Cape Town International Convention Centre Cape Town is the economic center of the province of Western Cape, South Africa's economic center of both the primary and the three major centers of African economies. It serves as a regional industrial center in the Western Cape. It also has a major port and airport in the province. Large government presence in the city - both as the capital of Western Cape and the seat of Parliament - led to increased revenues and growth in industries that serve the government. Cape Town to host the conference, especially in the newly expanded Cape Town International Convention Centre, which opened in June 2003 and the other due to expansion in the next year.
Cape Town has recently enjoyed a booming real estate and construction markets, due to the 2010 World Cup and many people buy a summer house in the city or relocating there permanently. Cape Town has hosted 9 World Cup: 1st round of six matches, the second round, one quarterfinal and semifinal. The central business district was under a vast urban renewal program, with many new buildings and renovations going on under the guidance of Cape Town Partnership.
Cape Town has four major commercial nodes, with the Cape Town Central Business District contains the majority of job opportunities and office space. Century City, Bellville / TygerValley strip and Claremont commercial nodes established and have many offices and corporate headquarters as well. Most of the companies headquartered in the city is safe, retail groups, publishers, design houses, fashion designers, shipping companies, petrochemical companies, architects and advertising agencies.
Many products are handled by the Port of Cape Town and Cape Town International Airport. Most of the ships the company has offices and manufacturing sites in Cape Town. The province is also a center of energy development for the country, with the existing nuclear power station Koeberg to provide energy to the needs of the Western Cape. More recently, oil explorers have discovered oil and natural gas offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.
Western Cape is an important tourist region in South Africa, the tourism industry is 9.8% of provincial GDP and employs 9.6% of provincial workers. In 2004, more than 1.5 million international tourists visiting the area.
With the highest number of successful information technology companies in Africa, Cape Town is an important center for industry in the continent. Grow at an annual rate of 8.5% and the estimated value of R77 billion in 2010, the national IT industry in Cape Town is increasingly important for the city's economy.
The city was recently named as the most entrepreneurial city in South Africa, with the percentage of Capetonians pursuing business opportunities almost three times higher than the national average. Those aged 18-64 were 190% more likely to pursue new business, while in Johannesburg, the same demographic group only 60% more likely than the national average to follow a new business.
Mostert at the Mill
Cape Town is not only the most popular international tourist destination in South Africa, but Africa as a whole. This is due to the favorable climate, natural setting, and well developed infrastructure. The city has several well-known natural features that attract tourists, especially Table Mountain, which form the bulk of Table Mountain National Park and the back of the City Bowl. Reach the top of the mountain can be reached either by hiking or by taking the Table Mountain Cableway. Cape Point is recognized as a dramatic end at the tip of the Cape Peninsula. Many tourists also drive along Chapman's Peak Drive, a narrow road that links Noordhoek with Hout Bay, for the views of the Atlantic Ocean and nearby mountains. It is possible to either drive or here to Signal Hill for a closer look at the City Bowl and Table Mountain.
Many tourists also visit Cape Town beaches, popular with locals. Because the city is a unique geography, it is possible to visit different beaches on the same day, each with different scenes and atmosphere. Although the Cape ranges from cold to mild water, the difference between the two sides of the city dramatically. During an average Atlantic coast an annual water temperature is barely above that of the California coast about 13 ° C (55 ° F), False Bay coast is very hot, averaging between 16 and 17 ° C (61 and 63 ° C) per years. This is similar to the water temperature in most of the Northern Mediterranean (eg Nice). In summer, False Bay, the average water a little more than 20 ° C (68 ° F), with 22 ° C (72 ° F) higher public. The beach is located on the Atlantic coast tend to have very cold water due to the Benguela current coming from the Southern Ocean, while the water in False Bay beaches should be warm to 10 ° C (18 ° F) at the same time due to the influence of the warm Agulhas current, and the effects of surface warming of South Easter wind.
Both beaches are equally popular, although beaches in affluent Clifton and elsewhere on the Atlantic coast is better developed with restaurants and cafes, with a particularly vibrant strip of restaurants and bars accessible to the beaches of Camps Bay. Boulders Beach near Simon's Town known for its colony of African Penguins. Surfing and the city hosts the popular Red Bull Big Wave Africa surfing competition every year.
The city has several notable cultural attractions. The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, built on the docks of the Port of Cape Town is a tourist town visited. It is also one of the most popular city center shopping, with several hundred shops and the Two Oceans Aquarium. Part of the beauty of the V & A, as it is locally known, is that the Port continues to operate and visitors can watch ships enter and leave. V & A also hosts the Nelson Mandela Gateway, where ferries depart for Robben Island. It is possible to take a ferry from the V & A to Hout Bay, Simon's Town and the Cape colony on Seal Fur Seal and Duiker Islands. Several companies offer tours of the Cape Flats, most colorful city, and Khayelitsha, a black majority city. Option is to sleep one night in the cities of Cape Town. There are several B & Bs where you can spend a safe and real African night.
Cape Town is famous for its architectural heritage, with the highest density of Cape Dutch style buildings in the world. Cape Dutch style, which combines the architectural traditions of the Netherlands, Germany, France and Indonesia, it is most visible in Constantia, the old government buildings in the Central Business District, and along Long Street. Cape town's annual carnival musician, also known as the Kaapse Klopse Afrikaans is a great musician festival held every year on January 2, or "Tweede Nuwe Jaar" (Afrikaans: Second New Year). Competing teams of singers with a parade of brightly colored costumes, to keep the Cape Jazz, who carry colorful umbrellas or playing an instrument table. The Artscape Theatre Centre is a major musical art based in Cape Town.
The city also includes 36 acres of Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden which contains a protected natural forest and fynbos along with various animals and birds. There are over 7,000 species in cultivation at Kirstenbosch, including rare and endangered species in the Cape Region flora. In 2004 this area, including Kirstenbosch, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Link transportation system throughout the Cape of South Africa, it serves as a door to another destination in the province. The Cape Winelands and in particular the town of Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek are popular day trips from the city for sightseeing and wine tasting. Whale Watching is popular with tourists: Southern Right Whales and Humpback Whales seen off the coast during the breeding season (August to November) and Bryde's Whale and Killer Whale can be seen any time of year. Cities near Hermanus Whale Festival is known by, but whales can also be seen in False Bay. Heaviside dolphins are endemic to the area and can be seen from the northern coast of Cape Town, Dusky dolphins live along the same coast and can sometimes be seen from the ferry to Robben Island.
Only complete windmill in South Africa is Mostert's Mill, Mowbray. Built in 1796 and renovated in 1935 and again in 1995. The factory is open to the public Saturday per month.
Approximately 1.5 million tourists visited in Cape Town during 2004, bringing the total of R10 million. [Quote needed] Estimates for 2006 anticipate 1.6 million tourists spent a total of R12 billion. The most popular sites for visitors to stay include Camps Bay, Sea Point, V & A Waterfront, City Bowl, Hout Bay, Constantia, Rondebosch, Newlands, Somerset West, Hermanus, Stellenbosch, as well.
Total capacity of housing in Cape Town, currently standing at around 60,000 beds (29 800 beds) in 2690 the company, [citation needed] the highest of all South African cities.
Communications and media
Some newspapers, magazines and printing facilities have their offices in the city. Independent news paper published in English in the city, Cape Argus and Cape Times. Naspers, the largest media conglomerate in South Africa, published in Die Burger, the paper's leading Afrikaans language.
Cape Town has many local community newspapers. Some of the largest community newspaper in English is the Athlone News from Athlone, the Atlantic Sun, Bulletin of the Constantiaberg Constantiaberg, Vision City of Bellville, False Bay Echo from False Bay, Helderberg Sun from Helderberg, the Plainsman from Michells Plain, the News Sentinel from Hout Bay, South of the southern peninsula Mail, Tatler southern outskirts of the southern suburbs, and Table Talk from Table View and Tygertalk from Tygervalley / Durbanville. Afrikaans language community newspaper covering Landbou-Burger and Tygerburger it. Vukani, based on the Cape Flats, was published in the Xhosa language.
Cape Town is the center for radio and a few radio stations that broadcast only in the city. 94.5 KFM (94.5 MHz FM) and Hope FM (94-97 MHz FM) mostly play pop music. Cardiac FM (104.9 MHz FM), the former P4 Radio, plays Jazz and R & B, while the Pure Music Radio (101.3 FM) plays classical music and jazz. Bush Radio is a community radio station (89.5 MHz FM). Tanjung votes (95.8 MHz FM), and Cape Talk (567 kHz MW) are the main radio station talk of the town. The University of Cape Town also runs its own radio station, UCT Radio (104.5 MHz FM).
The SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) has a small presence in the city, with satellite studios located at Sea Point. e.tv has a greater presence, with a large complex located in Longkloof Studios in Gardens. M-Net are not represented by the infrastructure in the city. Cape Town TV is a local TV station, supported by many organizations and is focused primarily on documentaries. Many production companies and supporting industries located in the city, most of them support the production of advertising abroad, shoot a model, TV series and movies. Local media infrastructure remains primarily in Johannesburg.
Sport
In Cape Town Stadium, the 2010 FIFA World Cup site, at its inaugural party In rugby, Cape Town is the home of the Western Province, who played at Newlands Stadium and compete in the Currie Cup.