Tygerberg is a district in the
northern suburbs
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of
Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...
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, previously called Pampoenkraal, is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, part of the greater City of Cape Town, Cape Town metropolitan area. It is a semi-rural residential suburb on the north-eastern outskirts of the ...
),
Stellenburgh (became part of
Bellville),
Evertsdal (became part of 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 (SU) (, ) 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 university in Sub-Sahara ...
. (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
*
Tygerberg Nature Reserve
References
External links
Web page for Universiteit Stellenbosch(in
Afrikaans
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)
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Suburbs of Cape Town