Vredenburg
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Vredenburg is a major town of the Cape West Coast in the Western Cape province of South Africa. "Vreden" is Afrikaans for peace. It is considered the unofficial capital of the West Coast, as it is the transportation and commercial hub of the area and administrative center of the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality. It is located 12km inland from the coast at Saldanha on the Cape Columbine Peninsula 138km north of Cape Town. The town was established in 1875 initially as a Dutch Reformed Church to serve the surrounding communities, as the closest church was in Hopefield. The town's original name was "Twisfontein", which in Afrikaans would be translated to troubled fountain or similar. This name came about when two competing farmers fought over the only available freshwater spring in the area. The town's population in 2002 was 31,283. [1]
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