Did you know?

Table Mountain started forming 280 million years ago. It’s now 1,084m tall and is still growing! The cable cars to the summit opened in 1929, and today they’re one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city. The New York Times voted Cape Town as the best place in the world to visit in 2014. Cape Town hosts the annual Mother City Queer Project, celebrating lesbian, gay and transgender lifestyles. It’s one of the biggest celebrations of its kind in the world. The 2011 census revealed that 43.2 per cent of the Western Cape’s citizens are under 25.