Tag: station

• Feb 06 2008

  Kommetjie (Slangkop Radio Station)

  During the war years the Post Office operated this early warning radio station by Morse Code. The primary use of the station was to receive SOS signals from merchant ships that were torpedoed by German U-boats off the Cape coast.

• 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…