Oranjezicht

Oranjezicht
— Neighborhood —
Part of Oranjezicht from the summit of Table Mountain. Molteno Dam and De Waal Park centre left.
Street map of Oranjezicht
Oranjezicht Location of Oranjezicht in Cape Town
Coordinates:
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
Municipality	City of Cape Town
Wards	77
Government^[1]
• Councillor	Vivienne Walker (DA)
Population (2001)^[2]
• Total	3,130
Ethnic groups
• Black African	5.81%
• Coloured	4.41%
• Indian or Asian	0.96%
• White	88.85%
Languages
• English	68.91%
• Afrikaans	23.90%
• Xhosa	3.10%
Time zone	SAST (UTC+2)
Postal code	8001

Oranjezicht (Dutch: orange view) is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa, built on the site of the old Oranjezicht farm, which used to stretch at least as far as the Mount Nelson Hotel and supplied the Castle of Good Hope with fresh produce

In 1708, Nicolaus Laubscher (1651–1721), who had immigrated in the 1670s from the Swiss canton of Fribourg, bought a property on the slopes of Table Mountain that he called “Oranjezicht” because of the good view from there of the Oranje (Orange) bastion of the Castle.^[3] Subsequent to his death, the farm was evidently acquired by Pieter van Breda (1696–1759), who arrived at the Cape in 1719 from the Netherlands.^[4] “Oranjezicht” was a farm for the next two centuries. Some of the buildings of the farm as well as the old slave bell are still at the location where the farm once stood. The farmhouse was on the property directly to the east of what is now a public park and playground. It was torn down in the 1960s to make way for a bowling green (which is also still there).
The Molteno Dam was built in 1877, to provide water for Cape Town by storing natural spring water from Table Mountain. At the time it was located on the mountain slopes above the infant city, but the city grew around it and it is now in the middle of the Oranjezicht suburbs. It is still in operation today.^[5]

St. Cyprian's School and the Booth Memorial Hospital are located in the suburb.

References

^ "Cape Town city Councillors by ward". City of Cape Town. http://web1.capetown.gov.za/web1/newcitycouncil/councilsearch.asp. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
^ "Oranjezicht". Census 2001. City of Cape Town. http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/stats/2001census/Documents/Oranjezicht.htm. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
^ Adolphe Linder, The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1971 (Basel: Basel Afrika Bibliographien, 1997), pp. 64–69.
^ Pieter van Breda's dates from C. C. de Villiers, Geslagsregisters van die ou Kaapse families / Genealogies of Old South African Families, rev. ed. by C. Pama, 3 vols. (Cape Town: Balkema, 1966), 1: 96.
^ Heikki Vuorinen, “Environmental History of Water” (IWA Publishing, 2007), pp. 170–171.

Suburbs of Cape Town

City Bowl	Bo-Kaap De Waterkant Gardens Higgovale Oranjezicht Schotsche Kloof Tamboerskloof University Estate Vredehoek Walmer Estate Woodstock Zonnebloem

Northern Suburbs	Bellville Bothasig Brackenfell Brooklyn Durbanville Edgemead Elsie's River Facreton Goodwood Kensington Kuils River Maitland Monte Vista Panorama Parow Thornton

Atlantic Seaboard	Bantry Bay Camps Bay Clifton Fresnaye Green Point Hout Bay Llandudno Mouille Point Sea Point Three Anchor Bay

Southern Suburbs	Bergvliet Bishopscourt Claremont Constantia Diep River Heathfield Kenilworth Mowbray Newlands Observatory Pinelands Plumstead Retreat Rondebosch Rondebosch East Rosebank Salt River Steenberg Tokai Wynberg

South Peninsula	Capri Village Clovelly Fish Hoek Glencairn Kalk Bay Kommetjie Masiphumelele Muizenberg Noordhoek Ocean View Scarborough Simon's Town St James Sunnydale Sun Valley

Cape Flats	Athlone Belhar Blue Downs Bonteheuwel Crawford Crossroads Delft Elsie's River Epping Grassy Park Gugulethu Khayelitsha Langa Lansdowne Lotus River Manenberg Mfuleni Mitchell's Plain Nyanga Ottery Philippi Wetton

False Bay	Gordon's Bay Somerset West Strand

West Coast	Bloubergstrand Milnerton Parklands Table View Melkbosstrand