Ocean View, Cape Town

Ocean View Slangkop
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Coordinates: 34°9′12″S 18°21′19″E / 34.15333°S 18.35528°E / -34.15333; 18.35528Coordinates: 34°9′12″S 18°21′19″E / 34.15333°S 18.35528°E / -34.15333; 18.35528
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
District
Municipality	City of Cape Town
Main Place	Kommetjie
Area [1]
• Total	1.75 km2 (0.68 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	13,569
• Density	7,800/km2 (20,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Coloured	91.4%
• Black Africans	6.8%
• Indian/Asian	0.6%
• White	0.3%
• Other	0.9%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	57.2%
• English	39.1%
• Other	3.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	4052

Ocean View, Cape Town, was established in 1968 as a township for coloured people who had been forcibly removed from so called "white areas" such as Simon's Town, Noordhoek, , Glencairn by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act. It was first called Slangkop, and the first resident moved there on 1 August 1968. It was renamed Ocean View, although the government had removed the residents from their previous seaside homes and views. As a result, its history is embedded in apartheid, and there is still bitter resentment among many people there.^{[citation needed]}

Notable residents[]

• Peter Clarke – visual artist^[2]
• Emile Baron – international footballer / Bafana Bafana goalkeeper^[3]
• Franklin Cale – professional footballer / Bafana Bafana^[4]

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