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	Western Cape Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa.
		The capital of the Western Cape Province is the City of Cape Town.
		Western Cape Province is bordered on the north by the Northern Cape Province, on the east by the Eastern Cape Province, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Cape_Province (966 words)

	Western Cape Province - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Constitution of the Western Cape was adopted in 1998 and is available in the official languages of the province, Afrikaans, English and IsiXhosa.
		The Parliament is housed in Cape Town and has a total of 42 members; 19 seats are currently held by the ANC, 12 by the DA, 5 by the NNP, 3 by the ID, 2 by the ACDP, and 1 by the UDM.
		The province is a major center of tourism for the country, with Cape Town and the Winelands being popular tourist destinations.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /western_cape_province.htm (1062 words)

	Safari areas: Western Cape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Western Cape, province in southwestern South Africa, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Indian Ocean on the south, and by Northern Cape and Eastern Cape provinces on the north and east.
		Average temperatures in Western Cape range from 16° to 32° C (60° to 90° F) in the summer and from 7° to 18° C (44° to 64° F) in the winter.
		The population of Western Cape was estimated to be 3,633,077 in 1994.
	www.travel-around.com /webs/budgetsafari/westerncape.html (430 words)

	Armoria patriæ - Western Cape
		It was the provincial animal of the Cape Province.
		The Western Cape is immensely larger than the original Dutch settlement in Table Bay, which measured only a few hectares, but is less than a quarter the size of the Cape Colony, the political unit which grew from that first settlement.
		The province comprises the 40 magisterial districts of:
	uk.geocities.com /landswapen/WCape.html (1828 words)

	WESTERN CAPE "MODEL PROVINCE" OR CAPE OF CONTRADICTIONS
		The Western Cape has wonderful natural advantages: climate, fertile arable land, perennial water, scenic grandeur, access to the sea, etc. These were not created by human beings.
		In l978 Cape Town had the highest per capita crime rate in the country: with l8 per cent of the population it had 24 per cent of serious crime.
		Now provinces choose how much of their overall budget to spend on education, and the NNP boast s that it is spending over R5,500 per pupil.
	www.anc.org.za /elections/articles/wcape.html (1098 words)

	WELCOME TO WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cape Town is the oldest European settlement in South Africa, and remains one of the most beautiful and distinctive cities in the world.
		The extensive ethnic population of Cape Town today is a blend of Asian, African and European lineage, many of whom are westernised in their lifestyle, Christian in orientation, and contribute to the sophisticated cultural composition of the Cape.
		Cape Town is an architectural triumph with a blend of traditional and modern structures, a tremendous sense of history, and an obvious dedication to preserving the city’s classic heritage.
	www.welcome-to.com /South_Africa/Western_Cape_Province (732 words)

	African Business: The Cape of hope. (Western Cape province of South Africa)(Special Report: Western Cape)@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Western Cape province is expected to grow by 1-1.5% until the year 2000.
		As a result of the rapid growth rate, the Western Cape is predicted to breach the R200 bn record in 1998.
		The Western Cape's rate of growth has outstripped the national average and is stiff...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:21026913&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (220 words)

	The Western Cape
		In the southwest lies the Western Cape Province bounded by the Indian and Atlantic oceans.
		Cape Town, a city renowned for its vibrancy, is made up of a mixed community of about 4 million people.
		Because the Western Cape is a winter rainfall area it was unsuited to the summer crops of Bantu speaking agro-pastoralists and when the Dutch East India Company established a refreshment station at the Cape in the 1600s it was occupied only by the San and Khoi.
	www.asu.edu /clas/anthropology/cape/The_Western_Cape.htm (487 words)

	Encyclopedia: Western Cape Province
		Cape Town is the tourism capital of South Africa, receiving the largest number of tourists of any South African city.
		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 International Airport is the second biggest airport in South Africa and a major gateway for travellers to the Cape Region.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Western-Cape-Province (833 words)

	Flora of the Western Cape
		The Western Cape is centered around the city of Capetown and is more or less crescent-shaped, with the flank of its northern horn facing west toward the Atlantic and the flank of its eastern horn facing south toward the Indian Ocean.
		The Western Cape Province shares with Southern California the distinction of being among the five regions of the world which harbor what is referred to as Mediterranean vegetation, the others being southwestern Australia, western Chile, and of course, the coastal Mediterranean.
		The primary vegetation type of the Western Cape is fynbos, a term derived from Dutch and Afrikaans words meaning "fine bush," which typically grows on fairly nutrient-depleted mostly sandstone-derived acidic soils and is dominated by sclerophyllous, that is, evergreen, hard-leaved, flowering shrubs, many of which are Proteas, Ericas, Cape Reeds (Restios), and geophytes (bulbed plants).
	www.calflora.net /southafrica/capeflora.html (2789 words)

	Western Cape Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Situated on the south-western tip of Africa, the Western Cape is the meeting point of the cold Atlantic and the warm Indian Oceans.
		The ‘Cape Doctor’ is the name given to the south-easterly wind that visits the Peninsula with little warning, blowing with a force that clears the air of all pollution and leaves Table Mountain draped in a ‘tablecloth’ of snow-white cloud.
		The Western Cape is the location of one of the six floral kingdoms of the world – the Western Cape Floral Kingdom, commonly referred to as fynbos.
	sandmc.pwv.gov.za /NewSite/Western_Cape.htm (545 words)

	Western Cape
		Cape Town was the gateway for European penetration of the South African interior.
		Province of the Republic of South Africa from 1994, formerly part of Cape Province; area 129,386 sq km/49,956 sq mi; population (2000 est) 4,178,600.
		The capital is Cape Town, which is also the legislative capital of the republic.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0046419.html (352 words)

	Cape Town -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cape Province comprised all of southern and western South Africa.
		The cape's meridian (20° E) is the official boundary between the...
		Western Cape province was part of former Cape of Good Hope province until 1994.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273504 (797 words)

	Cape Town Travel and Tourism - A comprehensive Travel Guide to Cape Town
		Garden Route, the Western Cape is a province of extraordinary diversity.
		Cape Town, an area considered one of the most beautiful in Africa, and whose character results from the cultural melting pot of Indonesian, French, Dutch, British and German settlers, the local Khoisan (Bushman and Hottentot) tribes and the Bantu tribes from the north.
		Cape Town was recently named as Africa’s leading destination at the fifth World Travel Awards in Antigua.
	www.sa-venues.com /westcape.htm (694 words)

	Western Cape Province and Mexico \| Planeta
		The Western Cape "Fynbos" is a unique shrub vegetation type with an incredible range of flowering plants and overall biodiversity and is regarded as one of only six "Floral Kingdoms" that cover the world, being the only one exclusively in one country.
		The Cape Peninsula National Park with Table Mountain practically in the city with the world-renowned Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens also on its slopes are good examples of urban ecotourism potential.
		A good example of the various versions of Western Cape ecotourism is the Cederberg region, a mountain range with bizarrely spectacular landscape bordered by coastal plains and vast semi-desert.
	www.planeta.com /planeta/04/0411samex3.html (735 words)

	AEGiS-AFP News: SAfrica-politics: Apartheid era politician becomes premier of key S.African province - December 5, 2001
		CAPE TOWN, Dec 5 (AFP) - A member of South Africa's apartheid-era New National Party (NNP) was Wednesday sworn in as premier of the key Western Cape province as part of a power-sharing deal with the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
		The NNP and the official opposition Democratic Alliance jointly ruled the Western Cape until last month but the announcement of the new cabinet has relegated the DA to the opposition benches in the province.
		The party will be forced to govern the Western Cape in consensus with the ANC as Marais will not have a decisive vote in his cabinet and deadlocks will be referred to the national leadership of the NNP and ANC.
	www.aegis.com /NEWS/AFP/2001/AF011274.html (839 words)

	Cape Province on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The former capital and largest city was Cape Town (now the capital of Western Cape).
		At the time of Van Riebeeck's landing, Cape Province was inhabited by San (Bushmen) and Khoikhoi (Hottentots) in the southern and central areas, and by Bantu speakers on the northern and eastern fringes (see Bantu languages).
		image, particularly in the region between Cape Columbine (left center edge) and southward to the Cape of Good Hope due to drought conditionsAfrica's wheat is produced in the Western Cape, with the areas in the southwest corner of the province being among the most important wheatregions.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/CapeProv_History.asp (1269 words)

	AEGiS-AFP News: SAfrica-health-TB: New tuberculosis strain discovered in South Africa - November 17, 2003
		CAPE TOWN, Nov 17 (AFP) - A rare new "super" strain of tuberculosis that is costly and time-consuming to treat has been identified in South Africa's Western Cape province, a leading scientist said Monday.
		Tommie Victor, a professor of medical biotechnology at the University of Stellenbosch near Cape Town, said a team of scientists and health workers had identified the strain after conducting research in 72 clinics in the Western Cape over the past three years.
		A spokesman for the Western Cape health department said the new strain was worrying because of the costs involved.
	www.aegis.com /news/afp/2003/AF031166.html (607 words)

	International Civic Heraldry - South African Civic Heraldry- WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE
		A coat of arms for the Western Cape province was approved by the provincial cabinet as described in an Extraordinary Provincial Gazette (5258) dated 19 May 1998.
		The idea of a coat of arms for the Western Cape originated in 1994 when the late Dr Cor Pama, a renowned heraldic expert, was requested to draft proposals.
		Resting on the upper rim of the shield is a distinctive "coronet" comprising a beaded headring (found inter alia as a form of ornamentation among the San), heightened with alternating protea flower heads and rings.
	www.ngw.nl /int/zaf/prov/w-cape.htm (540 words)

	Cape Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the Union of South Africa and after that under the Republic of South Africa, the old Cape Colony became the Cape of Good Hope Province (though it was commonly known as the Cape Province).
		Since 1994, it has been broken up into three smaller administrative units: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape.
		Parts of the Cape Province were also absorbed into the North West Province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Province (120 words)

	South Africa: Fires in the Southern Cape Peninsula, Western Cape Province, South Africa January 2000 (IFFN No. 22 ...
		The Cape floral kingdom is the richest of the world's six floral kingdoms, with a species density unmatched anywhere else on earth.
		The predominant vegetation type in the Western Cape is mountain fynbos ('fine bush', derived from fine leaves of ericas that typify this vegetation), growing on well-leached, infertile soils derived from sandstone and in some cases, granite and shale.
		The important issue is that the Western Cape is a fire-prone environment and people should learn to live in the urban fringe with this in mind.
	www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /iffn/country/za/za_14.htm (3738 words)

	bridges.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		CITI is a non-profit organisation funded by the Western Cape Province and City of Cape Town Governments, as well as more than 40 corporate members including UUNET, Microsoft, Telkom, and other national, regional, and local businesses.
		And largely due to the Bandwidth Barn and CITI's other activities in the region, Cape Town has received acclaim in prominent newspapers around the world for being an emerging ICT centre in South Africa, which is good for the region's ICT sector as a whole.
		In keeping with its vision to serve the entire Western Cape, CITI commissioned a Sector Scan in 2001 and an ICT Census Report in 2003, which will be available soon.
	www.bridges.org /iicd_casestudies/citi (2842 words)

	South Africa Travel \| Western Cape Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Western Cape floral kingdom, locally known as fynbos, the famous proteas and heathers contain more plant species than the whole of Europe and is one of the six accepted floral kingdoms of the world.
		Tourism contributes 13% of the GDP of the Western Cape.
		The western and southwestern parts of the province have a Mediterranean climate, with dry, warm and often windy summers and cool wet winters.
	www.africansky.com /travel/westerncape.html (628 words)

	OdinPubAfrica: Item 1834/736 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Western Cape Province (W.C.P.) of South Africa, one of nine provinces forming the country, is generally regarded in South African terms as being “poor” with respect to the number of its mammals when compared to the other eight provinces.
		This misconception has its origin in the fact that the Western Cape, essentially a winter rainfall region, lies adjacent to one of the richest spots in the world in terms of mammalian diversity, namely the summer rainfall region of the rest of South Africa.
		The misconception regarding mammalian diversity in the Western Cape is partially exacerbated by the relatively low biomass mainly due to the low...
	hdl.handle.net /1834/736 (216 words)

	Touring South Africa's Western Cape Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Western Cape, the province which surrounds Cape Town, offers the visitor a great deal in the way of diverse experiences including the gorgeous West Coast, the Cederberg Wilderness Area, and the Karoo, a desert region.
		This area on the coast east of Cape Town is an excellent area for whale watching.
		The cage is the only thing separating divers from the sharks, who are attracted to the area by bait set out by the tour operator.
	www.vacationtosouthafrica.com /western-cape.shtml (343 words)

	The vineyards of the Western Cape province;Stellenbosch,Franschoek,Paarl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Simon van der Stel became governor of the Cape in 1679 and was an enthusiastic wine maker.
		As a result one hundred and fifty French Huguenots (protestants) decided to seek a better life and emigrate to the Cape between 1688 and 1690.They imported their savoir-faire of grape growing and wine-making and were given land in the Franschhoek area to cultivate.
		As a result, the Cape vineyards were replanted and in 1904 large surpluses were produced.
	www.winelands.co.za /wine/wine.htm (511 words)

	The Garden Route, Overberg & Whale Coast, Western Cape Province, South Africa: Tourist Information & Activities
		Stretching along the southern Cape coast from Heidelberg in the west to the Tsitsikamma Forest and Storms River in the east, the region's entrance to the interior is barred by towering mountains breached by breathtaking passes and gorges.
		At Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of the continent, the waters are cleaved into the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
		The town is situated halfway between Cape Town and George on the N2.
	www.eyesonafrica.net /south-african-safari/garden-route-info.htm (4268 words)

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