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January 25th, 2009, 04:10 AM
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Neighborhoods of Africa?
I was always curious to what suburbs in Africa look like, can any of you guys be so nice to post pics?
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January 25th, 2009, 11:44 AM
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Annman
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My City's Suburbia
Hi there... my closest major city is Cape Town, South Africa. I may get flack as it doesn't look what most cities elsewhere on the continent may look like, but hey, it's great that Africa is such a diverse continent!
Clifton image hosted on flickr  Flickr - garybembridge Camps Bay image hosted on flickr  Flickr - mooi kiekkies image hosted on flickr  Flickr - neilalderney123 N2 Freeway (Settler's Way) - Mowbray image hosted on flickr  Flickr - jaded one Newlands (home of Cape Town rugby & cricket) image hosted on flickr  Flickr - coda Suburban business node of Claremont image hosted on flickr  Aerial of Claremont from Table Mountain image hosted on flickr  Flickr- coda Rondebosch, major student suburb near Uni. of Cape Town image hosted on flickr  Flickr - rebecca tyrrel Bo Kaap, inner city historic suburb image hosted on flickr  Flickr - neiljs Gardens, another inner city suburb image hosted on flickr  Flickr - coda Sea Point, highrise seaside suburb image hosted on flickr  Flickr - coda Canal Walk, Century City... suburban mall image hosted on flickr  Flickr - coda Century City, Cape Town's densification of the suburbs image hosted on flickr  Flickr - mooi kiekkies Over Cape Town's northern suburbs (Bellville) to the snowy interior mountains image hosted on flickr  Flickr - ifijay Northern Suburbs Panorama... towards the city SCROLL >>>>>>>>>> image hosted on flickr  Flickr -warrenski Table View, Cape Town's west coast suburbs image hosted on flickr  Flickr - ifijay Athlone image hosted on flickr  Flickr - mooi kiekkies Mitchells Plain, Cape Flats (Cape Town's previously disadvantaged areas image hosted on flickr  Flickr - www.andrewstern.info Langa & township life image hosted on flickr  Flickr - scuba las Langa - new low-cost apartments image hosted on flickr  Flickr - drurin Cape Town's largest township - Khayelitsha image hosted on flickr  Flickr - ascendent Enough from me, hope you enjoyed that LOOONNNGGG tour.
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January 25th, 2009, 02:13 PM
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For some reason, Cape Town kind of reminds me of Los Angeles.
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January 25th, 2009, 07:15 PM
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 Smaller... about 3.5million people. But, the climate is similar... Mediterranean, with warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters. We get a bit more rain than LA. But our climate is identical to places like San Luis Obisbo and Morro Bay further up the CA coast. Have lots of modeling shoots, film shoots and the like here every summer season (obviously not as many as there). Have the vineyards and the like, just like CA. A very common sight in Cape Town's downtown... image hosted on flickr  Flickr - coda |
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January 25th, 2009, 11:13 PM
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in terms of urban landscape and cleanliness and natural setting, Cape Town is just amazing and just unbeatable in Africa, it like a First World City (apart from townships , of course). Itīs so sad that not every other African city can look like this: so orderly, clean, well-maintained and well-planned! A sheer delight to the eye, knowing that Africa can be so incredibly livable.
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January 25th, 2009, 11:36 PM
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It can be done! Africa can do this, I have full confidence in our continent... Let's just hope we can get some amazing, inspirational and inspired leadership in our countries'. I'll try to get some pics of Jo'burg suburbs tomorrow... after all, it is sub-Saharan Africa's biggest metropole.
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January 26th, 2009, 12:14 AM
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Small taste of Jo'burg
The Student suburb of Melville with it's boutique shops and bars... image hosted on flickr  Flickr - garybembridge image hosted on flickr  Flickr - REPRESENT.CO.ZA Evolution of Sandton Suburb turned business hub... image hosted on flickr  Flickr - Thomas Abbott Inside Sandton... image hosted on flickr  Flickr - terryemilleruk Fourways north of Jo'burg... new suburb image hosted on flickr  Palazzo Hotel at MonteCasino image hosted on flickr  Flickr - reginafug Over Jo'burgs northern suburbs image hosted on flickr  Flickr - Vaughanoblapski! South Africa's largest township... Soweto... image hosted on flickr  Flickr - Austin Tolin Sometimes, it does happen... snow in Johannesburg suburbia... From the suburb of Linden...  WOWimage hosted on flickr  Flickr - lamoicucina From the air looking towards the CBD (downtown) from the East Rand... It is gray and washed out because that is snow over the city! image hosted on flickr  Flickr - Vaughanoblapski! |
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January 26th, 2009, 01:43 AM
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January 26th, 2009, 01:43 AM
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January 26th, 2009, 04:32 AM
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January 26th, 2009, 05:24 AM
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Rich areas would be the Tygervalley area, some parts of Durbanville, Camp's Bay area etc.
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January 26th, 2009, 05:36 AM
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Great pics.
Those aerials of Cape Town and Johannesburg remind me of California too! |
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January 26th, 2009, 07:38 AM
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 You're Poison... please do not ruin yet another thread with your ignorant, bigoted, outdated idea of what a diverse 21st Century Africa can be. If you can't keep a good thread civil, shove off. I'm trying to post nice pics here for kind people you don't hate that just want to know more, see more and gain insight. If you don't have a question, or some insight or pics into other African cities, LEAVE! |
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January 26th, 2009, 07:44 AM
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Well, there are people who prefer to see otherwise-------------and I'm glad you know it. 
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January 26th, 2009, 08:37 AM
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Annman
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I'm a true South African, I prefer to see EVERYONE of all shades, religions and cultures. This type of disgusting mentality is what's causing the genocide in Darfur, because some Sudanese think Sudan belongs to the ethnically Arab and that the black Africans don't belong there. This mentality is dangerous and has NO place in a civilised world anymore. Can I educate some people please. Cape Town does not have a majority black African populous and never has. The Zulu's, Xhosa's and Sotho's only made it as far south as the Great Fish River east of Port Elizabeth. White people and coloured people (ancestry of white/Malay/Khoi mostly) are in the majority in Cape Town. In other provinces in SA, black Africans are in the majority, in the Northern Cape and Western Cape, coloured and white Africans are the majority population group. Let South Africa be what it is: A diverse nation of peoples of all kinds. Now leave it at that, if you continue to argue these racial points, it just makes one look petty, hateful, ignorant and living in the past (where what you look like matters - take some cues from America, as this time they got something very right!) EDIT: Lydon, you know how the African forums can be, please please don't feed the monster and stir the hornet's nest. You know you'll only get negative feedback
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January 26th, 2009, 08:46 AM
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Let's leave this thread for what it was originally was supposed to be, and let's remember that it's in the photos forum. |
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