Cape Town Gallery: Pictures of Cape Town

(south Africa): Africa´s Unbeatable Diva?


Cities in SA are really SPLENDID. I want to open a thread to show it to people.   Has anyone been to cape town?  Please provide this thread with some more information.





















All this place is a shopping mall with appartments and artficial water






























THIS IS A MALL


























































To be continued.

Jesus Christ, that is beautifulllllllllllllllll

Look at those colorful house/apartments, their adorable.

the pictures are awesome!.@constatin do you have any  on joburg?

I think SA will be my next dream place to visit.
Its gorgeous.

People will probably tear my head off but the others went wrong because of their greediness. South Africa was mostly developed under the influence of the Brits and the Afrikaans. Unlike we black people, they don't just build up the wealth in their father's compund, they think of communal development.
I'm not saying that the Afrikaans were justified in their apartheid policy though.


Yeah, for a long time, the SA rand was equal to the dollar and their GDP per capita was high but lets not forget that this was not divided over the entire population but over the 13% white population of the country. Thats what Drusilla meant by 5m people. White people who had access to the mineral resources and wealth of the country.

I live in Cape Town, have lived here all my life and these pictures, although good, paint an inaccurate picture of the city and South Africa as a whole. In Cape Town, you'll find that about 20 percent of black people live in dire poverty without adequate housing and where government services are considered a luxury. The worst thing about South Africa with it's relatively strong economy and rapid growth is that we've not shared the wealth amongst all the people to an extent where poverty is arrested.

So please folks, these pictures are a minor reflection of Cape Town, don't be fooled by the hype.

smokie, come on, you have ramshackled areas everywhere in the world (it is not solely confined to Cape Town) even in London you have areas where you are "deadman walking" if you dare to pass through them! Cape Town is - despite its other face - still leaps and bounds ahead of any major Nigerian city in terms of infrastructure, entertainement, lifesytle, affluence, security, jobs etc. It is just as if you don´t find anything to complain at a sight of a "beautiful child" and so you just tell him/her to go and blow the nose.
Cape Town is magnificient and sparkling as a whole and it is NOT!!!!!!!! a minority who enjoys the sparkle. You have a growing and flourishing BLACK middle class instead of the rest of Africa where it is decreasing in rapid numbers,

I would consider myself middle class, I live in a nice neighbourhood- close to the Waterfront- but I'm not fooled, every where I look I see poverty stare back at me.
I suppose it's not bad as in Naija. Ppl should not come here and think life is all good, because it's not.
One thing I love about my city though is the relative cleanliness.

smokie  I'lld like to talk in Pvt. I need some more information on south africa education,working and lifestly. please get back at me on toluadepoyigi1@yahoo.com Abeg O!

Hmmm,  one of the problems I perceive is that so many scramble wealth, demographics, attractive architecture and polical-history into one big confusing mess,

Interestingly, the photographs are from www.kaapstad (dot something or other) ,  note: the name of the site from which the photos are taken is not in English,  nor Zulu,,  nor isiXhosa,  Sotho or Venda ,  BUT is reflective of the IMPRESSION that the CITY of C.T. (Cape Town) would like to have investors and prospective tourists have!

NOTE II: the Apartheid story in South Africa is not mere history- in matter of fact it continues, its legacy continues
The suffering of the majority of South Africans (black South Africans) is a reflection of the evils of the system - that has been internalised by both black and white South Africans.
NOTE III: lest it be forgotten, that much of the fore-seen beauty (and it is undeniably awesome) was not accesible for most of the country's recent history- as the 'Dompas' (PASS LAW) outlawed travel of and by black South Africans into 'white' cities such as South African cities were categorized (white, Indian, 'coloured' and black areas).

So,much more is valid: and the Truth and Reconciliation hearings brought much truth to surface and that to the public eye
Thereby, so many in the world became aware of the attrocities committed there (here for me) in that period and so are hopefully less likely to repeat these attrocities (or are they - compare the current situation and oppression in South Africa's neighbour Zimbabwe and South Africa's pathetic 'quiet diplomacy'  ie. do nothing).

Now, today (2007-03-21) is a Holiday in South Africa, becuase of Sharpeville.
In connection with that, with Cape Town, let us reflect on District Six.
District Six was in C.T.

 I'll stop here. I invite (1) Photos of the said suffering in C.T. and (2) the story of District Six.
 Astrape!  (Greek, meaning:  Light). 

 Astrape - often applied to Lightning. In Ancient and koine Greek, as in the New Testament.
The return (not literal, but personal) of Christ (I can mention here-Administrator as someone on this thread mentioned
"Jesus Christ" , !) so, as I was stating; His return is accompanied by 'light': a reference to 'evils' (such as Apartheid) becoming manifest.
 So, well back to C.T.  (Cape Town).

 NOTE III:  as daar mense hier is what Afrikaans kan of wou praat, natuurlik is hul welkom.

   (as per Rules: Translation: if there are some here that speak Afrikaans or wish to learn Afrikaans, naturally they are
                                               welcome).

cape town slums

what do harare eviction pictures have to do with CT?

Sad how there is slums in every major city in Africa, And that 90% of the people Constantin's pictures were oyinbo

why can't people make better use of internet? just sit down here expect other people to be telling everything

use google and don't tell me i suspect, i suspect

how fast you move from place to place  @bluenuban