Short answers, pulled from the story.
Bartolomeu Dias arrived at the southern tip of Africa in 1488 and named it Cape of Storms. He was the first European to reach this specific location on the coast.
Jan van Riebeeck and employees of the United East India Company established a way-station here in 1652. They built Fort de Goede Hoop which later became the Castle of Good Hope.
All housing in District Six was demolished and over 60,000 residents were forcibly removed to the Cape Flats. Black South Africans were expelled to Langa which was Cape Town's first township under the 1923 Native Urban Areas Act.
Nelson Mandela made his first public speech since imprisonment from the balcony of Cape Town City Hall hours after release on the 11th of February 1990. His speech heralded the beginning of a new era for the country before the first democratic election held four years later on the 27th of April 1994.
The South African National Census of 2011 recorded a population of 3,740,026 people representing an annual growth rate of 2.6 percent compared to previous census results finding 2,892,243 residents in 2001.