Parow
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[edit] Parow is a suburb in the Western Cape, South Africa.
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This 'property' was offered to Capetonians and British citizens for one and six an acre in 1901, it developed further from from there It was largely ignored until the second world war was over.
This area has now merged with Bellville which does have city status as of the late nineties.
One of the biggest building contractors in the early to late 1970's was a company called Barovida builders. The name stood of Basil, Robby , Violet and Daphny.The company consisted of two couples who had started a building company when they were young. They built most of what was called then called Panorama - a new area (and due to a roads department mix-up in the mid eighties when a new double road interchange and bridge was built over the N1 highway the Panroama name came today to mean the upper part on the slopes of Panorama hill, Plattekloof) when the anti-aparthied movement induced a recession this company, while worth millions on paper was put into recievership. No -one could pay for the newly built houses at the time.
It has now almost completely merged with the area on the other side called Bothasig (or Botha's view - called after the finger pointing butt of South African humour, PW Botha, see films by Pieter Dirk Uys[1]], a well known and well liked Gay [[2]]entertainer who now instead of fighting aparthied with humour is now having to educate about AIDS "the white mans disease" [[3]]).
Parow used to be a predominantly 'Afrikaans' area (hence the nickname 'Parow Arrow' for someone who lives in the old part of Parow), primarily because the workers of the State were given low cost housing in Parow, as the price of the land was so cheap. It also went through a period in the late nineties when the hillside area became infested with drug dealers probably due to the high security houses built on the now expensive land which has wrought iron [[4]] electric gates and alarms with secuirty gaurds in some cases.
