Faure is a hamlet some 16 km south-west of
Stellenbosch
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and 13 km north-west of
Strand
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. Administratively it is a suburb of the
City of Cape Town
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, and is in the
Helderberg region.
Nearby is the kramat or tomb of
Sheik Yusuf (1626-1699), an Islamic expatriate priest. Faure is a common surname; it is uncertain after whom this place was named. It may have been named after Pieter Faure, the name of South Africa's first trawler which arrived in Table Bay in 1897.
See also
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Faure level crossing accident
References
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Suburbs of Cape Town