• Cape Town is home to Africa’s only toboganning track
  • Table Mountain National Park near Cape Town boasts more plant species than the British Isles
  • Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa
  • “Mother City” is another name for Cape Town
  • Afrikaans is the most widely spoken language in Cape Town, followed by Xhosa and English
  • The Noon Day Gun at Lion Battery on Signal Hill has been fired every day at noon for 200 years now
  • Cape Town was originally named Cape of Storms
  • The Castle of Good Hope, built by the Dutch between 1666 and 1679 was originally on the shoreline, but is now inland thanks to Dutch efforts to reclaim land from the sea