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19-732: Diep River (Afrikaans Dieprivier ), drains the area between the Kasteel Mountain (north of Malmesbury ) and the northern slopes of the Durbanville Hills, in the Western Cape , a province of South Africa . 33°22′00″S 18°51′00″E  /  33.3667°S 18.8500°E  / -33.3667; 18.8500 This article related to a river in South Africa is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Malmesbury, South Africa The town

38-673: A coat of arms, designed by Cornelis Pama . It registered the arms with the Cape Provincial Administration in December 1963, had them formally granted by the provincial administrator on 8 July 1966 and registered them at the Bureau of Heraldry in September 1969. The arms were : Per chevron Sable and Gules, a chevron ermine between in chief two garbs and in base a sea-lion Or . In layman's terms :

57-459: A committee of enquiry which investigated the requirements for a national heraldry authority. From 1959 to 1963, he was consultant to the government's new Heraldry Section (headed by Dr Coenraad Beyers ), and in that capacity he designed official insignia for the new Republic of South Africa in 1961 : the state president's sash of office and official flag, a new mace for the House of Assembly, and

76-665: A new Black Rod for the Senate. From 1963 to 1989, he was a member of the Heraldry Council . In 1993, he served on the Commission for National Symbols, which was tasked with designing a new national flag and coat of arms (but whose recommendations were not accepted). Pama was chairman of the Heraldry Society of Southern Africa from 1957 until his death. He also edited the society's journal Arma from 1977. He

95-499: A sea-lion naiant per pale Or and Argent . In layman's terms : the shield was divided horizontally into black and blue and displayed, from top to bottom, a golden eagle between two sheaves of wheat, a red wavy stripe edged in silver, and a gold and silver heraldic sea-lion. Mother City SkyDiving operates out of a private airfield 12 km to the north of Malmesbury and provides a service for experienced sport skydivers , and offers Tandem Introductory Skydiving . Malmesbury has

114-469: A tepid sulphur chloride mineral spring that was renowned for curing rheumatism . The first farms were allocated in 1703. When the fifth Dutch Reformed congregation in the Cape was established here, it became known as Zwartlands-kerk (Swartland Church) but was renamed Malmesbury in 1829. The town acquired municipal status in 1860. The town no longer attracts the ailing because this aspect was never developed by

133-522: A total population of 4,856, with roughly half the population recorded as white (2,574) and half recorded as coloured (2,221). The following statistics describing Malmesbury are from the 2011 census . Malmesbury lies on the main railway line between Kraaifontein and Bitterfontein , and its railway station marks the northern end of Metrorail Western Cape's commuter rail network. Metrorail currently operates services to Cape Town via Kalbaskraal , Klipheuwel , Fisantekraal and Kraaifontein where

152-459: A variety of Sports Facilities including a Golf, Rugby & Bowling Club. The international organisation Parkrun hosts a regular 5 km run for anyone to join for free. Cornelis Pama Cornelis Pama (1916 - 1994) was a Dutch bookseller, publisher, heraldist and genealogist, who spent the second half of his life in South Africa. He was born in Rotterdam . During World War II, when

171-587: Is also has at the centre of three regional routes including the R45 which passes through the town as “Voortrekker Road", “Loedolf Street” and “Piet Retief Street” from Paarl (south-east) to Vredenburg (north-west), the R302 which passes through the town as “Voortrekker Road” from Durbanville (south), and the R315 which passes through the town as “Bokomo Street” from Darling (north-west). Voortrekker Road, designated as

190-530: Is the largest in the Swartland (‘black land’) which took its name from the renosterbos ('rhino bush'), an indigenous plant that turns black in the warm, dry summers. The area is especially known for its grain and wine cultivation as well as sheep and poultry farming. Malmesbury was named after Sir Lowry Cole 's father-in-law, the Earl of Malmesbury . Settlers were encouraged to make their homes here because of

209-992: The Boland Teachers College. He also designed the seal of the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa . His South African publications included Heraldiek in Suid-Afrika (1956), Die Unievlag (1957), Die Wapens van die Ou Afrikaanse Families (1959), Simbole van die Unie (1960), Lions and Virgins (1965), Heraldry of South African Families (1972), Die Vlae van Ons Land (1976), Heraldiek ABC (1980), Flags of Southern Africa (1981), Die Groot Afrikaanse Familienaamboek (1983), Vlae van Suider-Afrika (1983) and British Families in South Africa (1992). He also revised and re-published C.C. de Villiers' Geslagregisters van Ou Afrikaans Families (1966). Pama also published

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228-700: The Malmesbury line joins the main Northern Line to Cape Town. Malmesbury lies along the N7 highway “Cape Namibia Route” which bypasses the town centre to the west and leads north towards Moorreesburg , Piketberg , Springbok and Namibia and south towards Cape Town . The N7 intersects the R315 Bokomo Street, west of the town centre and the R45 interchange, north-west of the town centre. Malmesbury

247-537: The Netherlands were under German occupation, he was conscripted for forced labour in Germany. After the war, he moved to England, where he lived until emigrating to South Africa in 1955. He spent the rest of his life there. Pama was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by a Belgian university in 1963. Pama is probably best known as a heraldist and genealogist, in both the Netherlands and South Africa. He

266-408: The R45 and R302 serves as Malmesbury's main street through the town. Municipality — Malmesbury was a municipality in its own right from 1860 to 2000. By 1931, the council had adopted an emblem depicting a plough in front of a sheaf of wheat, surrounded by a buckled strap inscribed Deo frumentoque vires . This device was depicted on a cigarette card issued in 1931. In 1963, the council assumed

285-499: The local authority, and today a shopping centre is located on top of the site with only a decorative fountain marking the location of the original spring. In 1911 the Encyclopædia Britannica recorded the population of the town at 3,811, however this may refer to a white population, as a census of 1849 recorded a total of 8,520 residents. The 1939 edition of the official statistical Year Book of South Africa records

304-432: The motto, once again, was Deo frumentoque vires . Divisional council — The Malmesbury divisional council, which administered the rural areas of the district outside the town, assumed a coat of arms, designed by Ivan Mitford-Barberton , on 24 June 1958. The arms were : Per fess Sable and Azure, a fess wavy Gules fimbriated Argent between in chief an eagle displayed between two ears of wheat palewise Or and in base

323-400: The shield was divided by an ermine chevron, the upper half displaying two golden sheaves of wheat on a black background and the lower half a golden heraldic sea-lion on a red background. The sea-lion was evidently derived from the arms of Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff , who established the church from which the town developed. The crest was an upright spade between two rhenosterbos branches, and

342-739: Was a founder member of the Genealogical Society of South Africa in 1964, edited its journal Familia from 1964, and served a term as its chairman. Pama designed coats of arms and flags for dozens of schools, corporate bodies, municipalities, and private individuals. They included the Milnerton , Clanwilliam , Malmesbury and Brackenfell municipalities, the Conradie Hospital, and the Wellington Teachers Training College and its successor

361-420: Was a prolific writer in both countries. Pama founded the journal Nederlands Archief voor Genealogie en Heraldiek in 1935. His Netherlands publications included several editions of Rietstap's Handboek der Wapenkunde (1943 - 1987), Heraldiek en Ex-Libris (1943), Het Volkskarakter in de Heraldiek (1943), Ons Familiewapens (1943) and Prisma van de Heraldiek en Genealogie (1990). In 1956, Pama served on

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