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Table 1: Population of the Cape Colony, Cape Town & Suburban municipalities 1875 –

1911.

1875 1891 1904 1911
1. Cape Colony 720 984 1 527 224 2 409 804 2 564 965
Cape Province

2. Cape Town 33 239 51 251 77 668 68 738
Municipality

3.Suburban
Municipalities

Green & S Point 1 425 2 926 8 839 9 417
Woodstock 1 211 4 974 29 432 29 056
(incl Camps Bay) (incl Camps Bay)
Maitland - 2 035 5 071 5 761
Mowbray - 3 098 9 589 9 272

Rondebosch 1 902 3 378 6 035 5 625
Claremont 4 107 6 252 14 972 13 335
Wynberg 2 504 4 952 18 477 16 015

Kalk Bay – Mzbg - 1 456 3 607 3 527
Simon’s Town - 3 576 6 643 4 751
Suburban Total (11 149) 32 647 102 665 96 759

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Sources: Results of a Census of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, 7 March, 1875; 5 April, 1891; 17
April, 1904; Census of the Union of South Africa, 1911.

Along with the new arrivals and the growth of the peninsula municipalities came the need to
organise them. A flurry of legislation in the late nineteenth century meant that by 1902 there

were no less than 10 municipalities in the Peninsula – Cape Town, Woodstock, Green Point

& Sea Point, Maitland, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Claremont, Wynberg, Kalk Bay –
Muizenberg, and Simon’s Town. In addition there was a Divisional Council responsible for

the rural districts, and Table Bay Harbour Board had some independent jurisdiction.

Moreover, there were two more incipient municipalities in Camps Bay and Milnerton. Both
these areas showed every sign of being as fiercely separatist and independent as any of the

others, for municipal pride was deeply entrenched.