Naspers

Multinational holding and investment company

Naspers Limited

Naspers headquarters in Foreshore, Cape Town

Company type| Public

Traded as

| JSE: NPN
LSE: NPSN
Industry| Internet, E-commerce, fintech, food delivery
Founded| 12 May 1915; 109 years ago (1915-05-12)
Headquarters|

Cape Town

South Africa

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| Koos Bekker (Chair)[1]
Fabricio Bloisi(CEO)
Phuti Mahanyele-Dabengwa (CEO, South Africa)
Revenue|  US$22.1 billion (FY 2020)[2][3]

Operating income

|  US$3.7 billion (FY 2020)[4]
Total assets|  US$36.3 billion (FY 2020)[3]
Total equity|  US$29.93 billion (FY 2020)[3]
Owner|

* Prosus (49%)
* Public Investment Corporation (14%)
* Koos Bekker

Subsidiaries| Prosus (56.92%)
Media24
Takealot.com
Naspers Foundry

Website| www.naspers.com

Naspers Limited is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town, with interests in online retail, publishing and venture capital investment. Naspers' principal shareholder is its Dutch listed investment subsidiary Prosus, which owns approximately 49% of its parent as part of a cross ownership structure.[5]

Founded in 1915 by attorney W. A. Hofmeyr, Naspers was the largest publishing company in South Africa throughout the 20th century with interests across newspapers, magazines and books. In the 1980s, the company began to diversify, launching a subscription television service and investing in markets outside of South Africa for the first time.

In 2001, Naspers made an early investment in Chinese technology firm Tencent and became increasingly focused on the global consumer internet sector. In 2019, Naspers listed its global internet investment business unit Prosus (including a 31% stake in Tencent) on Euronext Amsterdam.

Naspers currently owns a 56.92% stake in Prosus[5] and wholly owns Media24 (Africa's largest publishing company), Takealot.com (South Africa's largest online retailer) and Naspers Foundry, a South African focused venture capital fund.

## History

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### Founding and Afrikaner nationalism

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In 1914, twelve years after the end of the Second Boer War which had devastated most of South Africa and left most Afrikaners impoverished and subject to the British Empire, a group of prominent Cape Afrikaners decided at a meeting in Stellenbosch to form a publishing company that would support Afrikaner nationalism[6] in the Union of South Africa.[7] This meeting led to W. A. Hofmeyr, a well-known Cape lawyer and National Party organizer; founding De Nasionale Pers Beperkt (National Press Ltd) in 1915 as a publisher of newspapers and magazines.[8][9] The firm's name was commonly shortened to Naspers (De Nasionale Pers Beperk), the contraction eventually becoming used even by the company itself.

Naspers launched with the support of Jannie Marais, a prominent Stellenbosch farmer,[6] Jan Christiaan Smuts, Louis Botha, and National Party founding president J.B.M. Hertzog. Naspers was strongly supportive of the National Party[10][11] and began publishing the Afrikaans-language daily De Burger (later renamed Die Burger) in June 1915, followed by its first magazine, De Huisgenoot (later Die Huisgenoot) in 1916.[12]

### Domestic expansion (1917–1986)

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In 1917, Naspers bought the weekly Bloemfontein-based Afrikaan newspaper Het Volksblad (now Volksblad), the first expansion beyond the Cape Province for the company.[13]: 410 In 1925, Die Volksblad started publishing daily. In 1937, it started Die Oosterlig in the Eastern Cape.[13]: 410 Also in 1937, Nasionale Pers set up the company Voortrekkerpers in the Transvaal to support the National Party in Transvaal by publishing Die Transvaler.[13]: 411 Initially the Cape National Party tried to control the extremism of the National Party in the Transvaal by appointing Hendrik Verwoerd as the paper's first editor but he would side with Transvaal branch and Nationale Pers gave up editorial control in 1939.[13]: 411 In order to combat the influence of Albert Hertzog in the Transvaal National Party, Nationale Pers introduced a more enlightened Sunday newspaper in 1965 in the province called the Die Beeld in competition to the Dagbreek.[13]: 411 By 1970, these two papers, the latter owned by Perskor, to merge into a paper called the Rapport managed by both groups.[13]: 411 In 1965, Naspers launched their first English-language magazine Fairlady. In 1974, the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld began publishing daily for the Johannesburg market.[12]

Naspers entered the South African general and educational book publishing markets in 1918, initially publishing exclusively in Afrikaans. The company expanded to English-language titles in 1919 and Xhosa in 1922. Naspers spun off its book publishing operations in 1950 into a separate business, Nasionale Boekhandel. In 1963, Naspers recommenced educational publishing operations through subsidiary Nasou.[12]

In 1973, Naspers took back control of Nasionale Boekhandel, before acquiring another publishing house Human & Rousseau in 1977. Naspers continued to develop its book publishing business during the 1980s, forming the Afrikaans-language book club Leserskring in 1979 and the English-language book club Leisure Hour.[12] In 1986, Naspers acquired publisher JL van Schaik.

In 1984, Naspers acquired Drum Publications, publisher of the Sunday newspaper City Press and weekly magazines Drum and True Love & Family, titles focused on a black readership.[12]

### Diversification, IPO and international expansion (1986–2003)

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In 1986, Naspers formed a partnership with other South African publishing companies and launched pay-TV service M-Net.[14] M-Net proved successful and, with sister companies MultiChoice and M-Web, steadily expanded its operations both in South Africa and internationally throughout the 1990s.

In 1994, Naspers became publicly listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa.[15] The company also obtained a Level I American Depository Receipt listing on the London Stock Exchange. In 1998, the company formally changed its name to Naspers Limited.[12]

Naspers became increasingly focused on digital businesses; launching South African web portal Media24 and online retailer Kalahari.com in 1998 and Chinese-focused web portal SportCN in 2000. In May 2001, Naspers purchased 46.5 percent of Chinese internet company Tencent, owner of WeChat, and an array of fintech apps and mobile games, from early investors including PCCW (the owner of Now TV) and IDG Capital.[16][17] The investment has been referred to as one of the most successful venture capital deals of all time.[18] Making Naspers the most valuable publicly traded business in Africa by 2017.[19]

In 2003, Naspers took full ownership of subscription television business M-Net and its sister companies MultiChoice and M-Web, integrating their extensive operations across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.[20] Naspers also launched new publishing ventures in Nigeria and Hungary in 2003.[12]

### Online ventures (2003–2015)

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With the success of the investment in Tencent, Naspers became an investor in a number of consumer internet startups. In January 2007 Naspers purchased a 30% share of Russia's largest internet company VK (company) (formerly Mail.ru Group) for $165 million.[21]

Naspers had a particular focus on India, investing more than $4 billion from 2014 to 2019,[22] across multiple sectors, including into Byju and ibibo. In December 2018, Naspers invested $1 billion into Indian online food ordering and delivery service Swiggy,[23] the largest single investment made, outside of China, into a food tech company.[24]

### Consolidation (2015–present)

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In 2015, Naspers merged its South African–focused Kalahari.com online retail business with market leader Takealot.com, acquiring a 46% stake in the merged company and creating South Africa's largest online retailer.[25] By 2018, Naspers owned 96% of Takealot.com.[25]

In December 2016, Naspers announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell telecommunications company M-Web to Internet Solutions (a subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications conglomerate Nippon Telegraph and Telephone), pending approval by the South African competition authorities.[26][27] On 9 May 2017, it was announced that the South African competition authorities approved the proposed sale of M-Web, with 31 May 2017 being the effective commencement date.[28][29]

In March 2018 Naspers sold part of its stake in Tencent, raising some $10 billion to fund other investments. At the time, its initial investment of $32 million in Tencent was valued at over $175 billion.[30]

Naspers' video entertainment business was spun off as MultiChoice Group, on 27 February 2019, represented as MCG on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.[31] Shares in Multichoice Group were unbundled to Naspers shareholders, with Naspers retaining no stake in the newly listed company.[32]

In 2019 Naspers listed its global internet investment business on Euronext Amsterdam as Prosus,[33][34] which became Europe's largest consumer Internet company on its market debut. Share values gained over 25 percent on the day of its IPO, with Prosus' market capitalisation exceeding 125 billion pounds (US$138 billion). Prosus reported profits of $4.2 billion for its fiscal year ending 31 March 2019.

Naspers Labs, designed in partnership with RLabs and its founder Marlon Parker,[35] launched in 2019 as an economic initiative for unemployed youth in South Africa.[36]

In May 2021, Naspers announced a share swap deal with its Dutch-listed subsidiary Prosus in an attempt to reduce the discount between the asset value of the companies and their market capitalisation.[37] The deal, successfully completed in August 2021, reduced Naspers' stake in Prosus to 56.92% and gave Prosus an approximately 49% share in its parent company.[5]

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Naspers (through its subsidiary Prosus) wrote off its 27.29% investment, previously valued at US$769 million, in the Russian internet company VK.[38]

## Controversies

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### Apartheid

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Documents collected by OpenSecrets revealed how Naspers funded the National Party (NP) during apartheid, and that the NP also held 74,000 shares in Naspers in 1984.[citation needed]

In a letter written to F.W. de Klerk, on 17 August 1989, Naspers' then managing director Ton Vosloo reaffirmed the company's support of the National Party. Vosloo reminded de Klerk of its donation of R150,000 (approximately R1-million today), made to the NP before the 1987 elections. The company had then also pledged a further R220,000 in support of the NP ahead of South Africa's last race-based general elections, in September 1989. Vosloo ended his letter, promising funding to the NP in Transvaal, by adding that "our newspaper Beeld in the Transvaal is your ally and we trust that this formidable combination will wipe out the competition."[39]

In 1997, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission requested that Naspers make a submission about the years between 1960 and 1994 (thus, broadly, between the Sharpeville massacre, in March 1960, and the first democratic elections of April 1994), specifically, the media's role during this period. Naspers refused to comply, which led to 127 Naspers employees each making an individual submission to the TRC, apologising for their role in the apartheid years. They said Naspers newspapers had formed an integral part of the power structure which implemented and maintained apartheid through, for instance, supporting the NP in elections and referendums.[40][41]

In 2015, Media24 CEO Esmare Weideman issued a case-limited apology citing a single employee, Conrad Sidego, who had experienced problems with separate facilities. She did not issue an unqualified apology for Naspers's role in supporting apartheid.[42]

## Assets

[edit]

Naspers has two principal business units; Prosus & Naspers South Africa.

### Prosus

[edit]

Prosus is the largest consumer internet company in Europe, and among the largest technology investors in the world, operating across a variety of platforms and geographies.[43] As part of a share swap deal announced in May 2021,[44] Prosus acquired a 49% stake in its parent company Naspers.[45] Other major holdings of Prosus include:

* E-commerce – including OLX (100%)
* Fintech – including PayU (98.8%)
* Food delivery – including iFood (54.8%), Delivery Hero (22.3%) and Swiggy (38.8%)
* Retail – including eMag (80.1%)
* Travel – including its associate, Ctrip (6%)
* Mobility – Bykea[46]
* EdTech – Codecademy, Stack Overflow, Brainly, Udemy[47]

Prosus is also the largest shareholder of social Internet platforms:

* Tencent (26.16%)[48]
* VK (27.29%)[49] – this investment was written off in March 2022.[38]

### Naspers South Africa

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Naspers South Africa operates three media, e-commerce & venture capital businesses in South Africa:

#### Media24

[edit]

Naspers wholly owns Media24, Africa's largest publisher, printer, and distributor of magazines and related products, as well its largest newspaper publisher.

#### Takealot.com

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Naspers wholly owns Takealot.com, South Africa's largest online retailer.

#### Naspers Foundry

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Naspers Foundry is a South Africa-focused early stage venture capital fund that invests in firms that "address big societal needs". Naspers Foundry ceased investment operations in March 2023, though it maintained its existing investments. [50]

## See also

[edit]

* List of South African mass media

## References

[edit]

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City of Cape Town|

* Government of Cape Town
* Mayor
* Deputy Mayor
* Cape Town City Hall
* Cape Town Civic Centre
* Cape Town Partnership
* Coat of arms of Cape Town
* Flag of Cape Town
* Elections
* 2018 Cape Town mayoral election
* Erasmus Commission
* Wards
* Law and enforcement
* Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa
* Municipal Police
* Pollsmoor Prison

History

* Invasion of the Cape Colony
* Battle of Blaauwberg
* Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814
* Noon Gun
* Convict crisis
* Timeline of Cape Town

| Fortifications|

* Amsterdam Battery
* Castle of Good Hope
* Chavonnes Battery
* Fort de Goede Hoop
* Redoubt Duijnhoop

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Monuments and memorials|

* Artillery Memorial, Cape Town
* Japanese Lantern Monument
* Rhodes Memorial
* The Cenotaph
* Treaty Tree
* Van Riebeeck's Hedge

Lists of heritage sites|

* Near Cape Town
* Bo-Kaap
* CBD and the Waterfront
* Simon's Town
* Helderberg
* Bellville
* Table Mountain
* Wynberg district

Historical buildings|

* African Theatre
* Alhambra Theatre
* Breakwater Lodge
* Church Square
* Coornhoop
* Graaff Electric Lighting Works

Culture

* Demographics
* Languages
* Afrikaans
* South African English
* Xhosa

| Cuisine|

* Cape Town wine
* Constantia (wine)
* Gatsby (sandwich)

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Performance
art|

* Cape Town City Ballet
* Musical ensembles
* Cape Town Opera
* Cape Town Philharmonia Choir
* Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra
* Theatres
* Artscape Theatre Centre
* Baxter Theatre Centre
* Labia Theatre
* Little Theatre
* Magnet Theatre
* Maynardville Open-Air Theatre
* Space Theatre
* The Independent Armchair Theatre
* Theatre on the Bay

Events and
festivals|

* Cape Town Book Fair
* Cape Town International Jazz Festival
* Kaapse Klopse

Museums and
art galleries|

* Air Force Museum
* Bertram House
* Chavonnes Battery
* Cape Town Science Centre
* District Six Museum
* Gallery Mau Mau
* Groote Schuur
* Heart of Cape Town Museum
* Hout Bay Museum
* Holocaust Centre
* Koopmans-de Wet House
* Maximum Security Prison, Robben Island
* Medical Museum
* Mostert's Mill
* Simon's Town Museum
* Naval Museum
* South African Sendinggestig Museum
* Waterworks Museum
* Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

| Iziko Museums|

* Bertram House
* Bo-Kaap Museum
* Groot Constantia
* Koopmans-de Wet House
* Maritime Centre
* Michaelis Collection at the Old Town House
* Rust en Vreugd
* Slave Lodge
* Social History Centre
* SAS Somerset
* South African Museum
* National Gallery
* William Fehr Collection at the Castle of Good Hope

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Public art|

* Statues
* Nelson Mandela
* Cecil Rhodes
* Nobel Square
* George Grey
* Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer
* Jan van Riebeeck
* Maria van Riebeeck
* Bartolomeu Dias

Religion|

* Anglican Diocese of Cape Town
* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town
* Religious buildings
* Auwal Mosque
* Gardens Shul
* Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St George
* Groote Kerk
* Lutheran Church in Strand Street
* Nurul Islam Mosque
* Palm Tree Mosque
* Queen Victoria Mosque
* St. George's Cathedral
* St. James Church
* St. Mary's Cathedral

Secular
architecture|

* Cape Dutch architecture
* Tallest buildings in Cape Town
* Athlone Power Station
* Atterbury House
* Bertram House
* Boshofpoort
* Cape Town City Hall
* Cape Town Civic Centre
* Castle of Good Hope
* Centre for the Book
* Coornhoop
* Disa Park
* Egyptian Building
* Genadendal Residence
* Hawthorndon House
* Houses of Parliament
* Huguenot Memorial Building
* Leeuwenhof
* Mandela Rhodes Building
* Metlife Centre
* Mutual Building
* Naspers Centre
* Portside Tower
* Rhodes Memorial
* Royal Observatory
* Triangle House

Media|

* Newspapers
* Cape Times
* The Cape Messenger
* Radio and television
* Bush Radio
* CapeTalk
* Cape Town TV
* Fine Music Radio
* Good Hope FM
* Kfm 94.5
* UCT Radio
* Voice of the Cape

Economy

* Entrepreneurship and innovation
* Silicon Cape Initiative

| Companies based
in Cape Town|

* Naspers
* Travelstart
* MWEB
* Sanlam
* Woolworths Holdings Limited
* Of historical interest:
* Garlicks

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Hotels and resorts|

* Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel
* Protea Hotels by Marriott

Shopping areas,
malls and markets|

* Canal Walk
* Cavendish Square
* Golden Acre
* Greenmarket Square
* N1 City
* Tygerberg Mall
* Somerset Mall
* Victoria & Alfred Waterfront

Exhibition centres|

* Cape Town International Convention Centre
* Good Hope Centre

Restaurants and cafés|

* Café Caprice
* Perseverance Tavern

Tourism|

* Beaches of Cape Town
* Cape of Good Hope
* Table Mountain Aerial Cableway
* Groot Constantia
* Mariner's Wharf
* Nature reserves in Cape Town
* Ratanga Junction
* Two Oceans Aquarium
* Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
* World of Birds Wildlife Sanctuary and Monkey Park

Transport

| Air transport|

* Airports in Cape Town
* Air Force Base Ysterplaat
* Cape Town International Airport
* Cape Winelands Airfield
* Wingfield Aerodrome

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Maritime transport|

* Port of Cape Town
* Safmarine

Road transport|

* Buses in Cape Town
* Golden Arrow Bus Services
* MyCiTi
* MyCiTi bus stations
* Roads in Cape Town
* Trolleybuses in Cape Town

Rail transport|

* Blue Train
* Commuter rail lines
* Metrorail Western Cape
* Cape Flats Line
* Central Line
* Northern Line
* Southern Line
* Railway stations
* Bellville
* Cape Town
* Claremont
* Crawford
* Mowbray
* Mutual
* Newlands
* Observatory
* Pinelands
* Retreat
* Rondebosch
* Rosebank
* Salt River
* Simon's Town
* Steenberg
* Woodstock
* Trams in Cape Town

Sports

| Soccer|

* Cape Town Spurs F.C.
* Cape Town City F.C.

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Rugby|

* Western Province
* Ikey Tigers

Cricket|

* Cape Cobras

Other|

Cape Town Tigers (basketball)

Sports events|

* 2010 FIFA World Cup
* Cape Town Cycle Tour
* Cape Town Open
* Cape Town Ladies Open
* Cape Town Marathon
* South Africa Sevens
* Two Oceans Marathon

Sports venues|

* Athlone Stadium
* Bellville Stadium
* Bellville Velodrome
* Cape Town Stadium
* Erica Park
* Good Hope Centre
* Green Point Stadium
* Hartleyvale Stadium
* Killarney Motor Racing Complex
* Milnerton Racecourse
* Newlands Cricket Ground
* Newlands Stadium
* NNK Rugby Stadium
* Parow Park
* Philippi Stadium
* Royal Cape Golf Club
* University of the Western Cape Stadium
* Wynberg Military Base Stadium

Education

| Libraries|

* Biblionef
* Central Library Cape Town
* Centre for the Book
* Fish Hoek Library
* Jacob Gitlin Library
* Meadowridge Library
* National Library of South Africa
* Rondebosch Library
* SAAO Library
* Strandfontein Library
* University of Cape Town Libraries

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Universities|

* Cape Peninsula University of Technology
* University of Cape Town
* University of the Western Cape

Colleges|

* Qualitas Career Academy
* South African College
* Yeshiva of Cape Town

Private
schools|

* American International School of Cape Town
* Cannons Creek Independent School
* Cape Town French School
* Christel House South Africa
* Darul Islam Islamic High School
* Diocesan College
* German International School Cape Town
* Herschel Girls' School
* Herzlia Schools
* Mountain View Academy
* Parklands College
* St. Cyprian's School
* St. George's Grammar School
* Michael Oak Waldorf School
* Oakhurst Primary School

Public schools|

* Alexander Sinton Secondary School
* Belgravia High School
* Belhar Secondary School
* Bellville High School
* Bergvliet Primary School
* Bergvliet High School
* Bosmansdam High School
* Brackenfell High School
* Cape Academy of Mathematics, Science and Technology
* Cape Town High School
* Chris Hani Secondary School
* Claremont High School
* COSAT
* D.F. Malan High School
* Durbanville High School
* Eben Dönges High School
* Eersterivier Secondary School
* Fairbairn College
* Fairmont High School
* Gardens Commercial High School
* Grove Primary School
* Harold Cressy High School
* Hottentots Holland High School
* Jan van Riebeeck High School
* Lavender Hill High School
* Livingstone High School
* Masiphumelele High School
* Milnerton High School
* Mondale High School
* Parel Vallei High School
* Pinelands High School
* Range High School
* Rondebosch Boys' High School
* Rondebosch Boys' Preparatory School
* Rustenburg School for Girls
* Sea Point High School
* Sinenjongo High School
* Spine Road High School
* South African College Schools
* Stellenberg High School
* Strand High School
* Table View High School
* The Settlers High School
* Trafalgar High School
* Tygerberg High School
* Westerford High School
* Windsor High School
* Wynberg Boys' High School
* Wynberg Girls' High School

Alternative schools|

* GlenBridge Special School
* Tafelberg School

Former schools|

* Ellerslie Girls' High School
* Tot Nut van het Algemeen

Art & Music schools|

* Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre
* South African College of Music
* Peter Clarke Art Centre

Not yet allocated|

* College of Magic
* Montebello Design Centre

Services

| Hospitals|

* Alexandra Hospital
* Groote Schuur Hospital
* Karl Bremer Hospital
* Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
* Somerset Hospital
* Tygerberg Hospital
* Valkenberg Hospital

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Lighthouses|

* Cape Point Lighthouse
* Green Point Lighthouse
* Milnerton Lighthouse
* Roman Rock Lighthouse
* Slangkop Lighthouse

Western Cape
Water Supply System|

* Dams and resrvoirs
* Alexandra Dam
* Berg River Dam
* De Villiers Dam
* Hely-Hutchinson Dam
* Kleinplaats Dam
* Land-en-Zeezicht Reservoir
* Lewis Gay Dam
* Molteno Dam
* Silvermine Dam
* Steenbras Dam
* Theewaterskloof Dam
* Victoria Dam
* Voëlvlei Dam
* Wemmershoek Dam
* Woodhead Dam

Electrical power generation|

* Athlone Power Station
* Graaff Electric Lighting Works
* Koeberg Nuclear Power Station
* Palmiet Pumped Storage Scheme

Emergency services|

* Cape Town Fire Department
* Metro Emergency Medical Services
* Mountain Club of South Africa
* National Sea Rescue Institute

Cape Town •  Outline

Authority control databases |

* VIAF

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