Jacobsbaai is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the

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. Jacobsbaai was founded as a small town on the farmland registered as 109 Jacobsbaai. The name is said to have come from the Frenchman Jacques Titius. He was a colonial trader in the West Coast. Tietiesbaai is also named after him, and Jacobsbaai has a street called Titius. Another explanation for the name is that the English king entrusted the piece of land to a local known as ‘Jacob', a chief of the Gonneman Hottentots. File:Jacobsbaai original add 1994.jpg, Jacobsbaai advertising effort in 1993 File:Jacobsbaai flyer.jpg, Advertisement placed in 1995

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{{West Coast District Municipality Populated places in the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality