The main language that is spoken in Cape Town in English. This is because South Africa was colonized by the British in the 1820s. Schools teach the English language based on the British grammatical and spelling systems.
The currency in Cape Town is the South African rand. One U.S. dollar is equivalent to about 15 South African rand.
Bottled water in Cape Town costs about R4.25. Cape Town is known for having a severe water crisis, which started in 2015 and peaked a few years later. This was especially the case in the Western Cape, which is where my classmates and I spent most of our time. A South African professor gave us a lecture about what the water crisis was like for those who lived through it. People in higher socio-economic classes tended to use the most water. They did not want people from lower socio-economic classes "intruding" in their neighborhoods to access water through pipes that were built to redirect water to the masses.
