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Chas Everitt - Western SeaboardBloubergstrand
The decisive Battle of Blaauwberg took place near here in 1806. The British defeated the defending Dutch forces and occupied the Cape Colony. The main beach in Bloubergstrand is called Big Bay, and is current under threat of development of a hovercraft terminal. Tableview or Table View is a west coast suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, named after its view of Table Mountain. Melkbosstrand Melkbosstrand (Afrikaans: "Milk bush beach") is a coastal village and beach on the West Coast of South Africa, near Cape Town. Named after the species of Euphorbiaceae bushes which grow on the dunes and give off a milky latex like substance, it is commonly referred to simply as Melkbos. It is sandwiched between the Atlantic ocean to the west and the Blouberg mountain to the east. It is notable for being one of the landing points for the South Africa-Far East and South Atlantic/West Africa submarine cable systems. Melkbosstrand falls under the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality, and its nearest neighbouring towns are Bloubergstrand and Atlantis. Melkbosstrand owes much of its present day infrastructure to two significant South African apartheid government developments in the late seventies. The first, Koeberg Powerstation, a nuclear reactor, constructed with the help of the British and French some 6 km north of Melkbosstrand, necessitated the creation of high quality housing for the foreign contractors. The second, the government subsidized creation of Atlantis Diesel Engines (ADE), a joint venture between the British Perkins-Elmer and Germand Daimler-Benz, to bypass international sanctions. Although ADE was in the industrial park of Atlantis, some 50 km north of Cape Town, subsidized housing was established in Melkbosstrand to help attract and retain the many German, British, and even South African, engineers, managers, and technicians. These houses, both for Koeberg and ADE, have long since been sold off to the public. Milnerton Milnerton is a suburb of Cape Town in South Africa situated on the Atlantic Ocean 11 kilometres to the north of Cape Town city's centre. The Milnerton area of Cape Town includes Cambridge Estate, Century City, Du
Noon, Joe Slovo Park, Lagoon Beach, Milnerton Ridge, Royal Ascot, Sanddrift,
Tygerhof and Woodbridge Island. Century City Century City is a suburb of the South African city of Cape Town that conforms
to the "new urbanism" of creating integrated neighbourhoods including
entertainment, residential, retail and office components. Development began
under the vision of Monex Developments in 1998 and explosive growth continues
under the new owners, Rabcav Properties. Investment thus far exceeds R5 billion.
It is located 10km to the north-east of central Cape Town along the N1 motorway
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Bloubergstrand
is a suburb of Cape Town located on the shores of Table Bay, about 25km
to the north of the city centre. Its name in Afrikaans means "blue mountain
beach" after Blouberg, a hill not far inland from the coast. It is mainly
residential and attracts large numbers of visitors, both from the city, from
other parts of South Africa and from overseas. Bloubergstrand is known for its
white sandy beaches and the location from which the classic view of Table Mountain
is seen.