Western Seaboard Suburb Guide

The Western Seaboard is located about 25 km north of the Cape Town city centre on the shores of Table Bay and consists of Blaauwberg, Melkbosstrand and Milnerton, each with several suburbs.

Blaauwberg

Blaauwberg (Afrikaans: “Blouberg”) means "blue mountain". It is mainly residential and attracts large numbers of visitors, both from the city, from other parts of South Africa and from overseas. Blouberg is known for its white sandy beaches and classic view of Table Mountain.
The decisive Battle of Blaauwberg took place near here in 1806. The British defeated the defending Dutch forces and occupied the Cape Colony.

Blaauwberg includes the following suburbs:

Big Bay
Blouberg Strand
Blouberg Sands
Blouberg Rise
Bloubergrant
Parklands
Sunningdale
Table View
Flamingo Vlei
West Beach

Melkbosstrand

Melkbosstrand (Afrikaans: "Milk bush beach") is a coastal village and beach on the West Coast of South Africa, north of Blaauwberg.
Named after the species of Euphorbiaceous bushes which grow on the dunes and give off milky latex like substance, it is commonly referred to simply as Melkbos. It is sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Blouberg Mountain to the east. It is notable for being one of the landing points for the South Africa-Far East and South Atlantic/West Africa submarine cable systems.
Melkbosstrand owes much of its present day infrastructure to two significant developments in the late seventies. The first, Koeberg PowerStation, a nuclear reactor, constructed with the help of the British and French some 6 km north of Melkbosstrand, necessitated the creation of high quality housing for the foreign contractors. The second, the government subsidized creation of Atlantis Diesel Engines (ADE), a joint venture between the British Perkins-Elmer and German Daimler-Benz, to bypass international sanctions during the apartheid years. Although ADE was in the industrial park of Atlantis, some 50 km north of Cape Town, subsidized housing was established in Melkbosstrand to help attract and retain the many German, British, and even South African, engineers, managers, and technicians. These houses, both for Koeberg and ADE, have since been sold off to the public.
Melkbosstrand includes the popular Atlantic Beach Golf Estate and Duynefontein.

Milnerton

Milnerton is situated on the Atlantic Ocean, about 11 kilometres to the north of Cape Town city's centre.
The Milnerton area of Cape Town includes Century City, Lagoon Beach, Milnerton Ridge, Royal Ascot, Sunset Links, Sunset Beach and Woodbridge Island.

Milnerton is one the oldest suburbs of the Western Seaboard and contains the popular and challenging of windy days, Milnerton golf course.

Schools of the Western Seaboard