Tygerberg is a district in the
northern suburbs of
Cape Town
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in
South Africa
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. It is also the name of the range of hills in the area. The main Tygerberg farms were Pampoenkraal (became
Durbanville
Durbanville is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, part of the greater Cape Town metropolitan area. Durbanville is a semi-rural residential suburb on the north-eastern outskirts of the metropolis and is surrounded by farms prod ...
),
Stellenburgh (became part of
Bellville),
Evertsdal (today Bellville), De Grendel (today
Parow), Lebenstijn (part of Bellville),
Blommensteijn (incorporated into Bellville), Door de Kraal (incorporated into Bellville), Vissershok (which has no more farming as it became a quarry with mining activities) and Clara Anna Fontein. It also contains the Tygerberg Nature Reserve.
Tygerberg is host to the
Tygerberg Hospital. The hospital is the centre for the Medicine and Health Sciences faculty of
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch University ( af, Universiteit Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant ...
. (Afrikaans: Universiteit Stellenbosch)
[http://www.sun.ac.za/english/ Web page for Stellenbosch University (English)]
The
Parow satellite campus of the
German International School Cape Town, in proximity to Tygerberg, serves German-speaking students up to grade 4.
[Satellite Campus in Tygerberg/Parow]
. German International School Cape Town. Retrieved on August 8, 2015
Page in German
.
See also
*
Tygerberg Zoo
*
Tyger Valley
Tyger may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* "The Tyger", a 1794 poem by the English poet William Blake
* ''Tyger'' (album), by Tangerine Dream, 1987
* "Tyger", a song by The Cult from the 2000 album '' Spirit\Light\Speed''
* Ras Tyger, protagoni ...
*
Tygerberg Nature Reserve
References
External links
Web page for Universiteit Stellenbosch(in
Afrikaans
Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gra ...
)
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Suburbs of Cape Town