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	Invitation to attendion workshop: Cape Flats Flora
		Their preservation is essential to the survival of the unique flora of the Cape Flats.
		Many people are aware of the floral riches on the Peninsula Mountain Chain, but very few realise how many plants struggle to survive on the Cape Flats, the most urbanised part of the Cape Metropolitan Area.
		In order to raise awareness and encourage appreciation of the Cape Flats flora in Cape Town schools, the Botanical Society and Cape Metropolitan Council have proposed developing a poster and workbook (similar to the Botanical Society's World Environment Day series).
	www.botany.uwc.ac.za /inforeep/workshop1.htm (328 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cape Flats
		The Cape Flats (Afrikaans Die Kaapse Vlakte) is an expansive, low-lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the the central business district of Cape Town.
		Despite the way in which the Cape Flats was created and the harsh conditions under which people have to struggle for survival, there is a vibe that is unique to the Cape Flats- a vibe that has emerged, as new communities were forged and as people learnt to "make the best of a bad situation".
		Cape Flats is a large, flat area of housing projects built in Cape Town, South Africa to house the Coloured community during the apartheid era.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cape-Flats (461 words)

	Cape Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cape Town was soon no longer the single dominant metropolis in the country, but as a major port it too was a beneficiary of the mineral wealth that laid the foundation for an industrial society.
		Cape Town is the meeting point of three South African national roads: the N1 to Johannesburg and Pretoria and ultimately the Zimbabwean border, the N2 to Durban and the N7 to Namibia.
		Cape Town International Airport is the second biggest airport in South Africa and a major gateway for travellers to the Cape region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Town (2728 words)

	Biodiversity conservation as a social bridge in the urban context
		Cape Town was designated a "Coloured preference area." A small number of Black townships were permitted to be established on the Cape Flats for the sake of providing cheap labor where expedient.
		Cape Flats Nature, because of the pivotal role that it is currently playing in facilitating the convergence of city planning and conservation management, is able to provide a yardstick for a number of assessments.
		Cape Flats Nature has adopted the approach that the time is now right for an open and honest setting of conservation agendas, and to engage community participants by inspiring them to adopt the protection of biodiversity for their own reasons.
	www.interenvironment.org /pa/davis.htm (5689 words)

	Overview of the Cape Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		he term Cape Flats refers to well, a flat, sandy stretch of land which is located on the outskirts of the city of Cape Town.
		Thus, people from widely divergent backgrounds and experiences, were uprooted from their communities and thrown together in the wasteland that has become known as the Cape Flats.
		Visitors to the Flats often talk about the "Cape sense of humour"- the ability of the people who live on the Flats to see the funny side of every situation.
	www.faranani.org.za /capeflats/overview.htm (377 words)

	The Ultimate Travel Guide for Cape Town - South Africa - Cape Town - Cape Town Surroundings - Cape Flats
		The exciting thing about the language of the Cape Flats is that it is dynamic and is forever in a process of change, as new experiences and situations are incorporated into it.
		The diversity of the music, which I collectively call the "Music of the Cape Flats", is reflected in the types of music and styles of the artists that have emerged.
		Houses are usually tiny and overcrowded, and in most townships, there are blocks upon blocks of flats that are equally tiny and serve as a breeding ground for gang and other unsavoury activities.
	www.kapstadt.org /en/cape_town/surroundings/cape_flats (1003 words)

	Launch of the Cape Flats Tourism Framework
		The Cape Flats was chosen because of the uniqueness of cultural and political heritage.
		The physical boundary of the Cape Flats is defined by the City of Cape Town and is commonly known as the Metro South East Sector.
		In essence the wider "Cape Flats" definition would include any place that has historic, social, environmental, political and/or cultural connections to the history of forced removals in our region, because after all the Cape Flats was a political construct of its time.
	www.capegateway.gov.za /eng/pubs/speeches/2005/dec/120530 (1256 words)

	Cape Town South Africa \| About Cape Town
		Cape Town, the "Mother City", is the oldest city in our country and has a cultural heritage spanning more than 300 years.
		Cape Town is one of the most popular long haul destinations in the world.
		The central areas of Cape Town North, Cape Flats, Cape Town South and Cape Town Cental form the hub of the City.
	www.tiscover.co.za /za/guide/114494sy,de,SCH1/objectId,RGN23za,selectedEntry,home,_site,visit-travel,_area,capetown/home.html (460 words)

	Cape Town at a glance - the Cape Flats
		The Cape Flats, on the outskirts of the city, undoubtedly have a serious image problem.
		However, the fragile beauty of the Cape Flats, with its temporary winter wetlands and its unique duneveld and floral wealth, could not long withstand the effects of permanent settlement.
		Today, the Cape Flats is a vibrant and eclectic mix of smallholdings, light industry, shantytowns and upmarket residential suburbs.
	home.intekom.com /intekom/international/medium/olympic_bid/tour_flats.htm (253 words)

	South Africa 2000 \| Facing Reality
		CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Ebrahim Moosa was in the back room with his children when his house exploded on July 13, 1998.
		This is the landscape of the Cape Flats, the troubled flatlands outside the beautiful sea and slope of Cape Town.
		The Cape Flats are the home of the coloured or mixed-race class, the social misfits of Apartheid.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/safrica/facing/pagad.html (2777 words)

	Cape Town, South Africa - Attractions - Cape Flats
		The term Cape Flats refers to well, a flat, sandy stretch of land that is located on the outskirts of the city of Cape Town.
		The exciting thing about the language of the Cape Flats is that it is dynamic and is forever in a process of change, as new experiences and situations are incorporated into it.
		The diversity of the music, which I collectively call the "Music of the Cape Flats", is reflected in the types of music and styles of the artists that have emerged.
	www.cape-town.info /cape-town-attractions/cape-flats (1046 words)

	Cape Flats Tourism Network Launch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Cape Town, 13 December 2005 - The Western Cape MEC for Finance and Tourism, Ms Lynne Brown, today launched the Cape Flats Tourism Framework, the culmination of 12 months of research and consultation.
		The aim of the framework is to investigate the tourism potential of the Cape Flats and the mainstreaming of the area into the tourism economy.
		Tourists to the Cape Flats could be taken on routes which included themes like; forced removals, sites of struggle, environmental linkages, spiritual sites and industrial and factory shopping tours; all done with the support of the various culinary and cultural delights the region has to offer.
	www.capegateway.gov.za /eng/pubs/news/2005/dec/120528 (835 words)

	The social contradictions of organised crime on the Cape Flats - Paper 74, June 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Within the Cape Flats there is further racial, economic and spatial segregation—there are the more populous coloured’; communities (an ambiguous catch-all term for lighter skinned mixed race people devised by the architects of apartheid), and the less numerous, but more densely populated, African townships.
		Any research on the Cape Flats that is concerned with community support for those individuals gaining their power through organised crime must grapple with the distinctions between street gangs and the criminal elite.
		The gross polarisation of wealth on the Cape Flats is largely dependent on the activities of the majority of the powerless in the crime boss’s community, especially the abundant members of territorial gangs.
	www.iss.co.za /Pubs/Papers/74/Paper74.html (10443 words)

	Urban Conservation Leads to Hope in the Cape
		Walters has been working with Cape Flats Nature, a program of the South African National Biodiversity Institute supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and the city of Cape Town to bring biodiversity conservation into mainstream municipal government policy.
		Cape Flats Nature involves local residents and promotes innovative community involvement in conservation activities, one of CEPF’s four key strategies for the area.
		Walters and her colleagues at Cape Flats Nature’s other pilot sites were officially added to the city payroll in July, joining the new 80-person strong Nature Conservation division, part of the Environmental Planning Department.
	www.cepf.net /xp/cepf/news/in_focus/2005/december_feature.xml (1761 words)

	Cape Town Project Examines Intersection of Urban Issues with Biodiversity -- The Earth Institute at Columbia University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A major goal of the CUBES Cape Town project is to support partner institutions’ policy development and implementation by providing a mechanism for focused interdisciplinary collaboration among the many groups working on various aspects of the city’s daunting social and environmental problems.
		The CUBES Cape Town Urban Biosphere Group is currently preparing a case study on urban sustainability in the Cape Flats area of the city, as a contribution to the CUBES international conference Urban Biosphere and Society: Partnership of Cities, which will take place at the New York Academy of Sciences in October, 2003.
		The Cape Town case study uses the biosphere reserve concept as a vehicle to examine the broader question of how environmental conservation and management may be developed in a socially-inclusive manner so as to provide maximum benefit to the poor people in the city and its surrounding areas.
	www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /news/2003/story06-24-03.html (614 words)

	Language of the Cape Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		To make it even worse, people on the Cape Flats tend to speak very rapidly and with a sing-song type of voice which, if you're not used to it, can sound quite comical.
		They're all very similar, in that they tend to consist of a combination of languages which have been corrupted to the extent that a "new" language is produced.
		The difference, however, is that for many people on the Cape Flats, Kapie-taal is the language they speak and unlike tsotsi-taal, it is not regarded as something unusual, certainly not on the Cape Flats.
	www.faranani.org.za /capeflats/lang.htm (787 words)

	African Specialist Features and Articles - story about Cape Town - South Africa
		Its suburbs are leafily prosperous; the shanties of the Cape Flats to the north-east remain starkly poor.
		From the 1960s, the Cape Coloured population was forcibly relocated to the Cape Flats.
		In the Cape Flats, we drove through shocking slums, but whenever we stopped — in shebeens for a beer, at craft markets, or a women’s cloth-printing project — we were buoyed by people’s calm good nature.
	www.africaguide.com /features/trvafmag/003.htm (5540 words)

	South African Museum - The Brown Hyaenas of the Cape Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hunting and habitat destruction eliminated the brown hyaena from the south-western Cape in the later part of the nineteenth century, but the existence of the species is recorded at den sites where it accumulated food bones.
		Fossil brown hyaena dens have been found in the south-western Cape at Hoedjies Punt, Sea Harvest, Elandsfontein, Ysterfontein, and Duinefontein (Koeberg) along the Atlantic Coast (see map), but perhaps the most informative site is at Swartklip on the False Bay coast of the Cape Flats, about 30 km east-southeast of Cape Town.
		Glacial conditions were similar in the adjacent southern Cape, where the transition from the much grassier, much cooler last glaciation to the present interglaciation, about 10 000 years ago, is starkly recorded in the deposits of Boomplaas Cave near Oudtshoorn and of Nelson Bay Cave at Plettenberg Bay.
	www.museums.org.za /sam/resource/palaeo/brownhya.htm (2295 words)

	Sight Fishing the Flats
		As the sand flat becomes covered with water the baitfish move up onto the flat through troughs, sluiceways and channels to escape the predators.
		From the second we waded onto the flats in the early morning until we pulled ourselves away in the late afternoon, we were sighting large numbers of ten to twenty pound bass in one to three feet of water!
		Study of bait fish and their imitations is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle when casting to educated resident bass on the flats in July and Aug. in 1-3 feet of water at high noon.
	www.flyfishsaltwaters.com /sight_fishing_the_flats.htm (3362 words)

	Mbeki welcomed on Cape Flats: South Africa: Politics: News24
		Cape Town - Housing and shopping facilities were among the promises made when President Thabo Mbeki hit the campaign trial on the Cape Flats on Tuesday, ahead of the March 1 municipal election.
		Cape Town mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo, who accompanied Mbeki, said there was much development on the cards for the area.
		Residents in the area told journalists drug dealing was a particularly huge problem in Macassar, with shebeens selling dagga and the highly addictive tik, which has become the drug of choice among Cape Flats addicts.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,9294,2-7-12_1885500,00.html (502 words)

	Cape Times - R80m Cape Flats project a 'shining example of renewal'
		An R80 million urban renewal project, touted by City of Cape Town and Western Cape government officials as a tangible sign of poverty alleviation, has been launched in Mitchell's Plain.
		Cape Town mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo said: "This dynamic council initiative forms an integrated part of the city's urban renewal strategy and will regenerate Mitchell's Plain by boosting the socio-economic, environmental and infrastructural prospects of the area."
		The speaker of the Western Cape legislature, Lynne Brown, said the interchange was selected due to its physical proximity to Mitchell's Plain and Khayelitsha in the hope that it would bring together two previously separated racial areas.
	www.capetimes.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=271&fArticleId=394293 (454 words)

	On the Tuk-Tuk Express, Has Methamphetamine hit the Cape Flats?
		Preliminary research with gang members on the Cape Flats suggests that the drug may be growing in that community.
		Trafficking routes to the Far East involving, among other things, Cape abalone, have been detec ted, and it is in the East where the drug has become most problematic.
		According to preliminary research with gang members in Manenberg and Elsie’s River in the Cape Flats, crystal meth is a recent arrival on the scene.
	www.iss.co.za /pubs/CrimeQ/No.6/Leggett2.htm (1523 words)

	Cape Flats -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In relatively recent geologic times, the flats were under the sea.
		cape on the Atlantic coast of Paraíba state, eastern Brazil, that forms the easternmost point of the South American continent.
		The city lies at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula some 30 miles (50 kilometres), at its southernmost boundary, north of the Cape of Good Hope.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9020117?tocId=9020117 (824 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / South Africa's Badlands Get Touch of Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Flats area is awash with drugs and violent gangs, but amid the
		The Cape Flats is a string of settlements inhabited mostly
		The Cape region as a whole is a natural treasure trove.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2004/02/18/south_africas_badlands_get_touch_of_green (756 words)

	Cape Flats aquifer under threat from pollution : Mail & Guardian Online
		The Cape Flats aquifer, which has the potential to supply Cape Town with billions of litres of fresh water a year, is under growing threat from chemical pollution, say experts.
		It warns that while the quality of the groundwater of the Cape Flats aquifer is generally good, it is starting to show "measurable impacts from human activities".
		After recent water shortages and droughts, hydrologists in the Western Cape have turned their attention to the province's aquifers as a means of keeping the fast-growing region assured of a reliable and sustainable water supply.
	www.mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=293945&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national (861 words)

	Curbing gangs in Cape Flats \| csmonitor.com
		During the apartheid era, these sprawling townships were a dumping ground outside bustling Cape Town for those of mixed race, known as "coloureds," whose problems fall between the country's divided fl and white communities.
		The Cape Flats townships, located on a barren, sandy strip more than 15 miles outside Cape Town, were among these designated coloured areas.
		Those who remain dedicated to fighting gang activity in Cape Flats say that young people must be given an alternative to gangsterism and be shown that behind the money and glamour is death and self-destruction.
	www.csmonitor.com /2001/0817/p6s1-woaf.html (1051 words)

	ANC MOURNS ANOTHER GRUESOME ACCIDENT ON CAPE FLATS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		What is most disturbing is that in both these accidents where most of the victims were taxi passengers, it is alleged that the accidents were caused by the negligence of the non taxi drivers.
		The ANC Western Cape expresses its sincere condolences to all families and friends of the victims of this tragedy.
		We call on all ANC members and the people of the province to open their hearts and to contribute generously to assist the families of the accident victims.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/1998/pr0425.html (447 words)

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