Hanover Park

Hanover Park is a working class neighborhood of the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.The neighbourhood was established in the 1960s as a township to resettle coloured people who had been evicted from areas designated as ‘reserved for whites’ during apartheid.

Photo: Discott, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Suburb
Description: suburb of Cape Town, South Africa
Also known as: “Hanover Park, Cape Town”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Crystal Secondary School and Mountview Secondary School.

Crystal Secondary School

School

Crystal Secondary School is a school in the Western Cape. Crystal Secondary School was founded in 1972 and named after the daughter of its first principal, the late C.

Mountview Secondary School

School

Mountview Secondary School is a school in the KwaZulu-Natal. It was opened in 1976. The school was built in response to the need for a further secondary school in Verulam. As of 2026, enrollment is 1,156.

Athlone Stadium

Stadium

Photo: Azwi, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Athlone Stadium is a stadium in Athlone on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa. It is used mostly for soccer matches, but is sometimes used for Currie Cup rugby matches. Athlone Stadium is situated 3½ km northwest of Hanover Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Manenberg and Lansdowne.

Manenberg

Suburb

Photo: Discott, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Manenberg is a neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa. It was created by the apartheid government in 1966 for low-income Coloured families in the Cape Flats as a result of the forced removal campaign by the National Party.

Lansdowne

Suburb

Lansdowne is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa. situated 10 kilometres southeast of Cape Town City Centre, surrounded by the suburbs of Rondebosch East, Crawford, Wetton, Claremont, Kenwyn and Athlone. Lansdowne is situated 2½ km west of Hanover Park.

Kenwyn

Neighborhood

Kenwyn is a residential suburb in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. It lies south of the N2 and alongside the M5 freeway. The surrounding suburbs include Wetton, Rondebosch East and Kenilworth. Kenwyn is situated 3 km west of Hanover Park.

Hanover Park

Categories: neighborhood and locality
Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-33.99222° or 33° 59′ 32″ south

Longitude

18.53306° or 18° 31′ 59″ east

Elevation

20 metres (66 feet)

United Nations Location Code

ZA HOK

Open location code

4FRW2G5M+46

OpenStreetMap ID

node 242783168

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

3367050

Wikidata ID

Q15222957

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Turkish—“Hanover Park” goes by many names.

Afrikaans: “Hanover Park”
Dutch: “Hanover Park, Cape Town”
French: “Hanover Park”
Turkish: “Hanover Park”

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