Ysterplaat

Ysterplaat is a northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, around 10 km west-northwest of City Hall. It borders Paarden Eiland to the southwest, Brooklyn and Rugby to the west, Kensington to the south, and Century City to the northeast.

Ysterplaat
Ysterplaat Ysterplaat's location in Western Cape
Coordinates: 33°54′23″S 18°29′42″E
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
City	Cape Town
Area
• Total	2.78 km2 (1.1 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	838
• Density	301/km2 (779.6/sq mi)
Races
• White	17.8%
• Asian	1.6%
• Cape Coloureds	32.2%
• Black	48.2%
• Other	0.2%
Languages
• Afrikaans	55.2%
• Xhosa	24.3%
• English	11.6%
• Southern Sotho	2.4%
• Other	6.5%

Ysterplaat, on the beach where Jan van Riebeeck landed on April 7, 1652, is well known for the local Air Force Base Ysterplaat. The base was used as the civilian Maitland Airfield as early as 1929, and officially changed its name from AFB Brooklyn to AFB Ysterplaat on April 1, 1949.

The Ysterplaat Reformed Church seceded on December 7, 1940, from its mother church, the Maitland Reformed Church, which then stretched to nearby Milnerton, Table View, and Bloubergstrand.

Sources

• Olivier, Rev. P.L. (compiler) (1952). Ons gemeentelike feesalbum. Cape Town/Pretoria: N.G. Kerk-uitgewers.