Cape Town's history and heritage. Term TaxonomyName: Cape Town's history and heritageTerm TaxonomyName: Cape Town's history and heritage. Public to note partial closure of Church Street, Somerset West CBD. Road users are advised to please make use of alternative routes along Victoria Street or Hunters Lane, and to adhere to the signage on site.

W W ith over 600 years of amalgamated cultural influences, the cuisine here is celebrated - Cape Town is consistently voted as the number one food destination in the world. T T he Castle of Good Hope , a sea fortress built by Dutch settlers is a prime example of a “star fort” and was built between 1666 and 1679 by the Dutch East India Company.

Cape Town was declared the legislative capital of the newly-formed Union of South Africa. The Cape Province retained voting rights for non-Whites. The Cape Town City Hall, in Darling Street, was built with its impressive opulent decorated marble facade which is combined with Italian renaissance features and the English colonial style. 1913

History of Cape Town The first European to anchor at Table Bay and climb Table Mountain was the Portuguese navigator António de Saldanha. He encountered a few hundred indigenous inhabitants, a Khoe people whose economy was based on herding, hunting, and gathering.

Battle of Cape Town, British occupy Cape (9307 slaves, 6435 free inhabitants, 800 liberated slaves). 1807 Promulgation of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in Britain. Britain hereby bans slave trading which includes the importation of slaves to the Cape. However, ownership of slaves is still legal 1809