1757 - During the during the
Seven Years' War a naval action takes place off the Cape of Good Hope between British and unidentified (likely French) vessels.[3]
Athlone Teachers' Training College founded (February 1952), South Africa's first college for coloured teachers of pre-school children, using money raised from the
Maynardville Theatre's performances.[50][51]
Steenbras Dam,
Steenbras Dam – Upper, pumped storage scheme was opened to supplement Cape Towns electricity supply during periods of peak demand.
1982 –
Laloo Chiba was released from custody of Apartheid government after serving 18 years in the
Robben Island prison but he was rearrested in 1985 to 1986 without a trial.
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^George Thomas Amphlett (1914), History of the Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd., 1862–1913, Glasgow: Printed by R. Maclehose,
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Kirsten McKenzie (1998). "Franklins of the Cape: the South African Commercial Advertiser and the Creation of a Colonial Public Sphere, 1824–1854". Kronos (25).
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Vivian Bickford-Smith; Elizabeth Van Heyningen; Nigel Worden (1999), Cape Town in the twentieth century, Claremont, South Africa: D. Philip Publishers,
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Vivian Bickford-Smith (2003). Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-0-521-52639-5.
Christoph Haferburg; Jürgen Ossenbrügge, eds. (2003). Ambiguous Restructurings of Post-apartheid Cape Town: The Spatial Form of Socio-political Change.
Lit Verlag.
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Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Cape Town, South Africa". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge.
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S.B. Bekker; Anne Leildé, eds. (2006). Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities. South Africa: African Minds.
ISBN978-1-920051-40-2. (about Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé)
Catherine Besteman (2008). Transforming Cape Town. University of California Press.
ISBN978-0-520-94264-6.
Tony Roshan Samara (2011). Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City. U of Minnesota Press.
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