Sandbaai (or Sand Bay) is a seaside town of approximately 4,000 people on the south coast of the

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province in

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. Sandbaai lies between Onrusrivier to the west and Hermanus itself to the east. Sandbaai is governed as ward 7 of the Overstrand Local Municipality. According to the 2011 census, the population of Sandbaai is 4,102, of whom 68.9% spoke

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as their

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while 28.6% spoke

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. 89.0% of the population described themselves as "

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", 5.8% as " Black African" and 4.2% as "

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Gallery

File:Sandbaai Seaside.jpg, Sandbaai Seaside File:Sandbaai Tidal Pool.jpg, Sandbaai Tidal Pool File:Sandbaai Seaside Sunset.jpg, Sandbaai Seaside Sunset

References

{{Overberg District Municipality Populated places in the Overstrand Local Municipality