Transvaal Transvaal is a geographic term associated with land north of (i.e., beyond) the Vaal River in modern-day South Africa.
Many states and administrative divisions have carried the name Transvaal. Now, a large portion of the Transvaal is known as Gauteng Province.
Cape Town The Tavern of the Seas - old postcards of Cape Town
The Rest of South Africa; Kimberley
Many states and administrative divisions have carried the name Transvaal. Now, a large portion of the Transvaal is known as Gauteng Province.
Cape Town The Tavern of the Seas - old postcards of Cape Town
The Rest of South Africa; Kimberley
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Adderley Street
Adderley Street was originally named Heerengracht, after the canal which ran down its centre. For many years it was a residential street, lined with large oak trees, but by 1850 it had become strongly commercial in character. Mayor Hercules Jarvis named it Adderley Street in 1850, to honour British Parliamentarian Charles Bowyer Adderley (elevated to the peerage as Baron Norton in 1878) who fought successfully against the plan for the British government to make Cape Town into another penal colony. The City Around Cape Town central andTable Mountain Other streets in Cape Town Darling Street * Roeland Street * St Georges Street * Riebeek Square * Strand Street The Harbour Sea Point Sea Point got its name in 1776 when one of the commanders serving under Capt Cook, Sam Wallis, encamped his men in the area to avoid a smallpox epidemic in Cape Town at the time Camps Bay and Kloof Neck The area between mountain and sea was granted to John Lodewyk Wernich and passed from father to son. Johan Wernich married Anna Koekemoer who on his death in 1778 married Fredrick Ernst von Kamptz, a sailor, and the area became known as “Die Baai van von Kamptz”. Suburban Cape Town * Wynberg, named after the farm- 'De Oude Wijnbergh; * Muizenberg, formerly Muysenbergh and Muys Zijn Bergh named after Sergeant Muys. * Kalk Bay, where the supplies from Cape Town stopped and had the be shipped onwards to Simon's Town Cape Town streets |