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Our culinary journey started in the Bo-Kaap, the Cape Malay quarter of Cape Town, with its distinctive colourful houses that cling to the slopes of Signal Hill.
'You would be forgiven for thinking you were on a remote, palm-fringed island' 2011
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He accused the ID of "poor leadership, lack of professionalism and incompetence in dealing with the Bo-Kaap structure".
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I haven't found a map of 17th-century Cape Town (Kaapstad), but here's a nice modern one (I presume Bo-Kaap is the tangle of streets running from Buitengracht up Signal Hill), here's a bird's-eye view that gives a good idea of the layout of the city on the landscape (though you can't read the labels), and here's a magnificent aerial photo.
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The picturesque neighbourhood of the Bo-Kaap in Cape Town, also known as the Malay Quarter, was once considered a slum by the city authorities.
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He used the newspaper to run a campaign for decent dust-bins in the Bo-Kaap - it was his passionate hatred of rats that kept him focused on that campaign.
Wolfie Kodesh 2002
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He began to sell the left-leaning Guardian newspaper in the streets of Woodstock, District 6 and the Bo-Kaap.
Wolfie Kodesh 2002
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The Cape Minstrels proceeded to the Bo-Kaap and from there were bussed to the Vigieskraal Stadium in Athlone, on the Cape Flats, and the Green Point Stadium where they were due to compete for the title of "Troop of the Year".
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Bo-Kaap - it was his passionate hatred of rats that kept him focused on that campaign.
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Bo-Kaap - it was his passionate hatred of rats that kept him focused on that campaign.
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In the steep cobbled streets of the Bo-Kaap, the Cape's old
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