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The Cape Flats (Afrikaans: Die Kaapse Vlakte) is an expansive, low-lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town. The Cape Flats is also the name of an administrative region of the City of Cape Town, which lies within the larger geographical area.

Landsat image of Cape Town and environs, looking roughly east. Cape Peninsula in the foreground; Table Bay with Robben Island to the left; False Bay with Seal Island (small white dot) to the right. The mountains of the Boland to the rear. The oval (long axis about 25 km) roughly encompasses the Cape Flats.

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Cape Flats

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The Cape Flats (Afrikaans: Die Kaapse Vlakte) is an expansive, low-lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town...

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Cape Flats English

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Cape Flats English (abbreviated CFE) or Coloured English is the variety of South African English spoken mostly in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. Its...

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Cape Town

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1113 m on Table Mountain. The Cape Flats (Afrikaans: Kaapse Vlakte) is a flat, low-lying, sandy area, area to the east the Cape Peninsula, and west of the...

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Passion gap

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Passion gap or Cape Flats smile is a dental modification originating in Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa in which people deliberately remove the upper...

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Cape Flats Sand Fynbos

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Cape Flats Sand Fynbos (CFSF), previously known as Sand Plain Fynbos, is a critically endangered vegetation type that occurs only within the city of Cape...

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Cape Flats Line

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The Cape Flats Line is a commuter rail line in Cape Town, South Africa, operated by Metrorail Western Cape. It connects central Cape Town with the suburbs...

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South African Army

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military out of the separate armies of the union's four provinces (the British Cape Colonial Forces, and the forces of the Natal Colony, the Transvaal, and the...

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Cape Flats Dune Strandveld

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Cape Flats Dune Strandveld is an endangered vegetation type. This is a unique type of Cape Strandveld that is endemic to the coastal areas around Cape...

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Cape of Good Hope

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Fynbos. Cape Town Biodiversity Factsheets" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-11-01.[dead link] "Cape Flats Dune Strandveld. Cape Town Biodiversity...

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Cape Peninsula

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sea of the sandy area now known as the Cape Flats. The towns and villages of the Cape Peninsula and Cape Flats, and the undeveloped land of the rest of...

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List of Cape Town suburbs

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This is a list of suburbs in the City of Cape Town, South Africa which includes the city of Cape Town and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs Each suburb...

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Gangs in South Africa

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group. In the 1960s and 1970s, Coloured residents of Cape Town started forming gangs in the Cape Flats and other non-white areas. This is due to the breakdown...

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Cape Floristic Region

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Western Cape, South Africa Cape Flats Dune Strandveld – Endangered vegetation type endemic to the coastal areas around Cape Town Cape Flats Sand Fynbos –...

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Khayelitsha

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Khayelitsha (/ˌkaɪ.əˈliːtʃə/) is a township in Western Cape, South Africa, on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. The name is Xhosa...

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Mitchells Plain

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residential areas and contains multiple smaller suburbs. It is located on the Cape Flats on the False Bay coast between Muizenberg and Khayelitsha. Conceived of...

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South African English

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sub-spectrum of South African English is Cape Flats English, originally and best associated with inner-city Cape Coloured speakers. In 1913, Charles Pettman...

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District Six

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and 18% Indian-owned. Most of the residents were Cape Coloureds and they were resettled in the Cape Flats. The vision of a new white neighbourhood was not...

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Zeekoevlei

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Zeekoevlei is a freshwater lake on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa. The lake is 258 hectares (640 acres) in area. Its name means hippopotamus...

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Asande Baninzi

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sentences for the murder of a family of four living in Delft, in the Cape Flats, pleaded guilty to all his convictions. List of serial killers in South...

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Table Mountain

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rest on the basement consisting of Cape Granite. Devil's Peak, Signal Hill, the City Bowl and much of the "Cape Flats", however, rest on heavily folded...

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Fynbos

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stretching from the Cape Flats to the Olifants; the Breede, which is the largest river on the Cape; the Olifants River (Southern Cape); Gourits and the Groot...

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Blue Downs

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Cape Flats, a flat expanse of land east of Cape Town. The suburb is one of the outlying areas of Cape Town that has been targeted by the Western Cape...

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Western leopard toad

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Cape Peninsula, the Cape Flats and the Agulhas flats of the Western Cape, South Africa. Two macro-populations exist, broadly referred to as the Cape Town...

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Geology of Cape Town

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continent. At its tip is Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. The peninsula forms the west side of False Bay and the Cape Flats. On the east side are the...

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Metrorail Western Cape

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at Fish Hoek because the line south is single-track. The Cape Flats Line travels east from Cape Town as far as Maitland, then turns south through Athlone...

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Rashied Staggie

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late September 2013. Staggie has been called "one of the last of the Cape Flats' OG's (old gangsters)" and through his tenure, the Hard Livings gang had...

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Kaaps

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in Kaaps. Most works in Kaaps come from authors located in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa where it is most commonly spoken. Although Kaaps...

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