Ruyterwacht (original) (raw)
Ruyterwacht is a northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, bordering the industrial area of Epping and the formerly Cape Coloured neighborhood of Elsie's River as well as the GrandWest Casino. Eppingtuin ("Epping Garden"), as Ruyterwacht was once known, began as a subsidized housing project for underprivileged white South Africans. In its early years as an independent township, it was administered by the Urban Housing Bureau under the Cape Town Divisional Council. (1951) includes an article on the on the neighborhood's founding: "On September 7, 1938, the Centenary Year [of the Great Trek] seventy families descended from Voortrekkers moved in among the luxuriant pines and crawling wildlife. Descended from sturdy Afrikaner stock, they swelled to several hundred in a matter of months."
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:PopulatedPlace/areaTotal | 1.41 1.294994055168 |
| dbo:PopulatedPlace/populationDensity | 6377.98294674681 6378.0 |
| dbo:abstract | Ruyterwacht is a northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, bordering the industrial area of Epping and the formerly Cape Coloured neighborhood of Elsie's River as well as the GrandWest Casino. Eppingtuin ("Epping Garden"), as Ruyterwacht was once known, began as a subsidized housing project for underprivileged white South Africans. In its early years as an independent township, it was administered by the Urban Housing Bureau under the Cape Town Divisional Council. (1951) includes an article on the on the neighborhood's founding: "On September 7, 1938, the Centenary Year [of the Great Trek] seventy families descended from Voortrekkers moved in among the luxuriant pines and crawling wildlife. Descended from sturdy Afrikaner stock, they swelled to several hundred in a matter of months." The church hall of the mother congregation in Ruyterwacht is named after , chairwoman of the Urban Housing Association (Afrikaans: Stedelike Behuisingsbond) from 1945 to her death in 1963. (en) |
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| dbo:country | dbr:South_Africa |
| dbo:populationDensity | 6377.982947 (xsd:double) 6378.000000 (xsd:double) |
| dbo:populationTotal | 8993 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:subdivision | dbr:Cape_Town dbr:Western_Cape |
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| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1070443291 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Cape_Town dbr:Elsie's_River dbr:Epping,_Cape_Town dbr:Standard_Encyclopaedia_of_Southern_Africa dbr:Pines dbr:Western_Cape dbr:Afrikaner dbr:Cape_Coloureds dbc:Suburbs_of_Cape_Town dbr:South_Africa dbr:Voortrekker dbr:Ons_gemeentelike_feesalbum dbr:Phil_Olivier dbr:Ruyterwacht_Reformed_Church dbr:Zerilda_Steyn |
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| dbp:areaTotalSqMi | 0.500000 (xsd:double) |
| dbp:demographics1Info | 3.6 1.2 32.8 50.1 12.3 |
| dbp:demographics1Title | dbr:Cape_Coloureds Black (en) Other (en) White (en) Asian (en) |
| dbp:demographics2Info | 41.8 8.0 3.1 47.1 |
| dbp:demographics2Title | Afrikaans (en) Xhosa (en) English (en) Other (en) |
| dbp:demographicsType | Languages (en) Races (en) |
| dbp:name | Ruyterwacht (en) |
| dbp:populationAsOf | 2011 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:populationDensityKm | 6378 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:populationDensitySqMi | 16518.900000 (xsd:double) |
| dbp:populationTotal | 8993 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:pushpinLabel | Ruyterwacht (en) |
| dbp:pushpinMap | South Africa Western Cape (en) |
| dbp:pushpinMapCaption | Ruyterwacht's location in Western Cape (en) |
| dbp:subdivisionName | dbr:Cape_Town dbr:Western_Cape dbr:South_Africa |
| dbp:subdivisionType | City (en) Country (en) Province (en) |
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| dcterms:subject | dbc:Suburbs_of_Cape_Town |
| georss:point | -33.919444444444444 18.556944444444444 |
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| rdfs:comment | Ruyterwacht is a northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, bordering the industrial area of Epping and the formerly Cape Coloured neighborhood of Elsie's River as well as the GrandWest Casino. Eppingtuin ("Epping Garden"), as Ruyterwacht was once known, began as a subsidized housing project for underprivileged white South Africans. In its early years as an independent township, it was administered by the Urban Housing Bureau under the Cape Town Divisional Council. (1951) includes an article on the on the neighborhood's founding: "On September 7, 1938, the Centenary Year [of the Great Trek] seventy families descended from Voortrekkers moved in among the luxuriant pines and crawling wildlife. Descended from sturdy Afrikaner stock, they swelled to several hundred in a matter of months." (en) |
| rdfs:label | Ruyterwacht (en) |
| owl:sameAs | wikidata:Ruyterwacht dbpedia-af:Ruyterwacht https://global.dbpedia.org/id/2Qoy2 |
| geo:geometry | POINT(18.556943893433 -33.919445037842) |
| geo:lat | -33.919445 (xsd:float) |
| geo:long | 18.556944 (xsd:float) |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Ruyterwacht?oldid=1070443291&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Ruyterwacht |
| foaf:name | Ruyterwacht (en) |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Ruyterwacht |