Bo Kaap
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Translated from Afrikaans, Bo Kaap means ‘Above the Cape.’ With its vividly painted low-roofed houses, many of them historic monuments strung along narrow cobbled streets, Bo Kaap is one of the most photographed sections of Cape Town.
Initially a garrison for soldiers in the mid-18th century, this area of town was where freed slaves started to settle after emancipation in the 1830s. The most picturesque streets are Chiappini, Rose and Wale. The earliest white colonial development in the Bo Kaap area was undertaken in the 1760s by Jan de Waal. Subsequently, the area became known as Waalendorp. It has since been known as the Malay Quarter, the Slamse Buurt, and Scotcheskloof.
In the 1700s, political exiles, slaves and convicts were sent to the Cape by the Dutch from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the Indonesian Archipelago. Although not technically nor politically correct, these individuals and their descendants became known as Cape Malays. Many of them eventually settled in the Bo Kaap. In the mid-twentieth century, the Apartheid government, under the Group Areas Act of 1950, declared the Bo Kaap a Muslims-only area and forced people of other religions and ethnicity to leave the area. This was unique because, during this time, most working class (and non-white) people in South Africa were being forcefully moved away from the cities.
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Translated from Afrikaans, Bo Kaap means ‘Above the Cape.’ With its vividly painted low-roofed houses, many of them historic monuments strung along narrow cobbled streets, Bo Kaap is one of the most photographed sections of Cape Town.
Initially a garrison for soldiers in the mid-18th century, this area of town was where freed slaves started to settle after emancipation in the 1830s. The most picturesque streets are Chiappini, Rose and Wale. The earliest white colonial development in the Bo Kaap area was undertaken in the 1760s by Jan de Waal. Subsequently, the area became known as Waalendorp. It has since been known as the Malay Quarter, the Slamse Buurt, and Scotcheskloof.
In the 1700s, political exiles, slaves and convicts were sent to the Cape by the Dutch from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the Indonesian Archipelago. Although not technically nor politically correct, these individuals and their descendants became known as Cape Malays. Many of them eventually settled in the Bo Kaap. In the mid-twentieth century, the Apartheid government, under the Group Areas Act of 1950, declared the Bo Kaap a Muslims-only area and forced people of other religions and ethnicity to leave the area. This was unique because, during this time, most working class (and non-white) people in South Africa were being forcefully moved away from the cities.
Translated from Afrikaans, Bo Kaap means ‘Above the Cape.’ With its vividly painted low-roofed houses, many of them historic monuments strung along narrow cobbled streets, Bo Kaap is one of the most photographed sections of Cape Town.
Initially a garrison for soldiers in the mid-18th century, this area of town was where freed slaves started to settle after emancipation in the 1830s. The most picturesque streets are Chiappini, Rose and Wale. The earliest white colonial development in the Bo Kaap area was undertaken in the 1760s by Jan de Waal. Subsequently, the area became known as Waalendorp. It has since been known as the Malay Quarter, the Slamse Buurt, and Scotcheskloof.
In the 1700s, political exiles, slaves and convicts were sent to the Cape by the Dutch from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the Indonesian Archipelago. Although not technically nor politically correct, these individuals and their descendants became known as Cape Malays. Many of them eventually settled in the Bo Kaap. In the mid-twentieth century, the Apartheid government, under the Group Areas Act of 1950, declared the Bo Kaap a Muslims-only area and forced people of other religions and ethnicity to leave the area. This was unique because, during this time, most working class (and non-white) people in South Africa were being forcefully moved away from the cities.