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PRONUNCIATION OF CAPE FLATS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAPE FLATS

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Cape Flats is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CAPE FLATS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cape Flats

Cape Flats

The Cape Flats is an expansive, low-lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town. To many people in Cape Town, the area is known simply as 'The Flats'. Landsat image of Cape Town and environs, looking roughly east. Cape Peninsula in the foreground; Table Bay with Robben Island to the left; False Bay with Seal Island to the right. The mountains of the Boland to the rear. The oval roughly encompasses the Cape Flats. Described by some as 'apartheid's dumping ground', from the 1950s the area became home to people the apartheid government designated as non-White. Race-based legislation such as the Group Areas Act and pass laws either forced non-white people out of more central urban areas designated for white people and into government-built townships in the Flats, or made living in the area illegal, forcing many people designated as Black and Coloured into informal settlements elsewhere in the Flats. The Flats have since then been home to much of the population of Greater Cape Town.

Definition of Cape Flats in the English dictionary

The definition of Cape Flats in the dictionary is the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAPE FLATS

Cape Cod
Cape Cod cottage
Cape Colony
Cape Coloured
Cape Comorin
Cape Delgado
Cape Dezhnev
Cape doctor
Cape Dutch
Cape Finisterre
cape gooseberry
Cape Guardafui
Cape Hatteras
Cape Helles
Cape Horn
Cape jasmine
Cape Kennedy
Cape Matapan
Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope Province

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAPE FLATS

bats
combats
congrats
eats
flats
floats
Ghats
Greats
John o´Groats
Keats
lats
Liberal Democrats
long-coats
mudflats
Nats
oats
rats
stats
sweats
Yeats

Synonyms and antonyms of Cape Flats in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Cape Flats» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAPE FLATS

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Translator English - Chinese

海角单位
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cape Flats
570 millions of speakers

English

Cape Flats
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

केप फ्लैट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كيب فلاتس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Мыс Квартиры
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Cape Flats
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কেপ ফ্ল্যাট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Cape Flats
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cape Flats
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cape Flats
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ケープフラッツ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

케이프 플랫
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cape Flats
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Cape Flats
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேப் பிளாட்ஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केप फ्लॅट्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cape Flats
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cape Flats
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Cape Flats
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Мис Квартири
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cape Flats
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Cape Flats
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Kaapse Vlakte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Cape Flats
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Cape Flats
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Cape Flats

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPE FLATS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPE FLATS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Cape Flats

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPE FLATS»

Discover the use of Cape Flats in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cape Flats and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Groundwater Pollution in Africa
In considering the Cape Flats aquifer as a water resource, these factors are important. Subsequent to point source identification and the various non-point or diffuse sources of pollution, the need for protection zoning in the wellfields of the  ...
Yongxin Xu, Brent Usher, 2006
2
Cape Town Fringe: Manenberg Avenue is where It's Happening
The unsightly spaces where these citizens live, the townships of the Cape Flats, can be packaged as the products and embodiment of apartheid nastiness. Ugliness can be monumentalised too. Simultaneously, these monotonous kilometres of ...
David Lurie, 2004
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Ambiguous Restructurings of Post-apartheid Cape Town: The ...
contrast starkly with the poverty, wastelands, and desolation of the racially segregated black townships of the Cape Flats. These racialised geographies of post-apartheid Cape Town reproduce the spatial logic of capital under apartheid  ...
Christoph Haferburg, Jürgen Ossenbrügge, 2003
4
Drumbeats: Sounds of Zion in the Cape Flats
African indigenous churches form a striking part of the phenomenal growth of Christian churches on the African continent.
Hendrik Louwrens Pretorius, 2004
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South Africa
East of the northern and southern suburbs, among the industrial smokestacks and the windswept Cape Flats, reaching well beyond the airport, is Cape Town's largest residential block, taking in the coloured districts, African townships and ...
‎2002
6
The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1971
Hausen am Albis ZH, Gemeindeverwaltung. EMANUEL RAMSAUER, locksmith, * HerisauAR 1859 + Neu-Eisleben, Cape Flats 1923.11.26. FATE LED HIM TO AFRICA Ramsauer was on his way to South America in an organised emigration  ...
Adolphe Linder, 1997
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Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the ...
urban renewal: “broken windows” approach to, 56; Cape Flats renewal strategy, 101–11; criminality focus of, 183–95; gang activity and, 93–97,100–101; geopolitics and, 7–10; hard policing impact on, 133–37; lack of community input in, ...
Tony Roshan Samara, 2011
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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
These raggle-taggle sentinels stand to tin-soldierly attention and behind them the bush stretches for miles across the Cape Flats. Bushes, I imagine, that send out wayward limbs to weave into the tangled undergrowth, for I have never left the ...
Zoë Wicomb, 1987
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A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax
Introduction Cape Flats English (CFE) originated in working class neighbourhoods in inner- city Cape Town. However, as a result of Apartheid social engineering, most of its speakers now live far from the city centre in a number of adjoining ...
Edgar Werner Schneider, Bernd Kortmann, 2004
10
Limits to Liberation After Apartheid: Citizenship, ...
Journalist and documentary film-maker, Daniel Reed, captured it in this way: The Cape Flats, vast, poor and violent, are a purgatory to the Mother's City's paradise. The Flats are reached via the Hell Run, the stretch of motorway between White ...
Steven L. Robins, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPE FLATS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cape Flats is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cape Flats Residents Concerned Over Alleged Mob Justice Killings
Various other mob justice killings have also been reported on the Cape Flats this year. In June, a group of people were arrested after three men ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
2
World-best plant reserve next to M5 World-best plant reserve next to …
The Kenilworth Racecourse Conservation Area (KRCA) protects 52 hectares of critically endangered Cape Flats sand fynbos. To make sure ... «News24, Jul 15»
3
Film-maker to pitch popular work to SABC
... but it is to the grandchildren of people who were forcibly removed and who now live on the Cape Flats, and are shaped by a history of which ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
4
Music classes a weekend affair Music classes a weekend affair
IMAD, the Institute for Indigenous Musical Arts Development, which serves the youth in three schools on the Cape Flats launched an initiative in ... «News24, Jul 15»
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Sax man shares journey in notes Sax man shares his journey in notes
It's a journey that is still on a positive path but, like so many musicians on the Cape Flats, it started in the church, leading to Christmas bands ... «News24, Jul 15»
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Poetic lapses leaven life on the Cape Flats
But even so, decent folk that they are, their lives are affected by the gangs, drugs and other madnesses of the Cape Flats. In the 2006 movie, ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
7
Newsmaker – Faiez Jacobs: 'ANC can reclaim Western Cape'
Jacobs' activism started in the 1980s when he was a student activist in Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats. In 1989 he became the general ... «News24, Jul 15»
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PREVIEW: Inside Manenberg
Medical services in this Cape Flats Township have been severely disrupted by violence that flared up a year ago and hasn't abated. A simple ... «eNCA, Jul 15»
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'Operation Fiela has achieved its targets in the Cape'
In May, as the police and army continued to raid sections of the Cape Flats under part of Operation Fiela, Ottery residents said they were scared ... «Eyewitness News, Jul 15»
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Western Cape ANC leadership must first confront its own demons
For example when Hellen Zille requested the deployment of the army in the fight against crime on the Cape Flats, the Western Cape ANC sided ... «News24, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cape Flats [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cape-flats>. Apr 2024 ».
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