Cape Flats
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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This area, just 20km outside central Cape Town on the Cape Flats, has been whittled down from over 3,000 hectares in the mid-1960s to under 2,000 hectares today.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2023
We thumbed away from the waterfront and the verdant enclaves that hug the iconic Table Mountain, and over to the sprawling Cape Flats, all dusty brown.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022
Albert Fritz, provincial minister for community safety, says violence on the Cape Flats has been very localised.
From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2019
“We haven’t broken through from being the place up on the hill that people on the Cape Flats think doesn’t belong to them.”
From Nature • Oct. 30, 2018
My inclination was to spend the night in the Cape Flats, the bustling black and Coloured townships of Cape Town, in order to show my solidarity with the people.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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