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Melkbosstrand is a coastal village situated on the West Atlantic Coast of South Africa, 35 km north of Cape Town with the Blouberg mountain to the East. |
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Melkbosstrand beach is popular with surfers all over the world and is notable for being one of the landing points for the South Africa-Far East and South Atlantic/West Africa submarine cable systems. |
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About |
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Melkbosstrand owes much of its present day infrastructure to two significant South African apartheid government developments in the late seventies. The first, Koeberg nuclear power station, 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 AG, to bypass international sanctions. 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 long since been sold off to the public. |
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Melkbos is located in a winter rainfall area and receives rain during April to October. It has year round sunshine and summer is the sunniest with little rain. In the winter the daytime temperatures rarely fall below 10 degrees. |
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