Tag: Athlone

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  Jun 08 2017

  Cape’s Storm

  Cape Town’s storm, reported as the “worst storm in living memory”, tore through Plumstead Cemetery on Wednesday night, uprooting trees and pushing over tombstones. In other incidents an uprooted tree landed on a block of flats in Plumstead and the wind brought down electricity cables in Athlone. No one was injured. The rains that came…

• Sep 21 2009

  Crawford

  Crawford is a suburb of Cape Town located to the East of the City Centre (CBD) on the Cape Flats with a community that is as stable and diverse as Athlone – predominantly middle income and of Muslim and Christain faiths. Crawford is made popular by it’s offering of a great variety of churches, mosques,…

• Oct 12 2007

  A Diverse Community

  ATHLONE’s stable community is diverse in culture – with it’s Muslim, Christian and Hindu communities in income – with income groups ranging from very rich to very poor in areas – with it’s affluent areas of Hatton estate, Rylands, Rondebosch East; and poor areas of Bridgetown, Silvertown, Quewtown. Over the past 3 or 4 years…

• Sep 15 2007

  Athlone

  ATHLONE is a suburb of Cape Town in the South Eastern Suburbs to the south of the N2 highway, named after Alexander Cambridge – 1st Earl of Athlone who was Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1930. Well known landmarks of the area are the Athlone Stadium and the old coal burning…