# Cape foot

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{{Short description|Unit of length for land survey in South Africa}}
A '''Cape foot''' is a unit of [length](/source/length) defined as {{convert|1.0330|ft|mm}} found in documents of belts and diagrams relating to [landed property](/source/landed_property).<ref>{{cite journal |last = Matthews |first = E.L. |author2=G. M. Swift |author3=G. Hartog |title = South Africa: Union of South Africa |journal = Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law |series=Third Series |volume = 6 |issue = 2 |year = 1924 |pages = 111–134 |jstor=752924}}</ref> It was equal to the [Rijnland voet](/source/Foot_(unit)) and was introduced into South Africa by Dutch settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.<ref>{{cite book |url = https://archive.org/details/allereerstegron00ramagoog |title = Allereerste Gronden der Cijferkunst |author = Jacob de Gelder |language = nl |year = 1824 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/allereerstegron00ramagoog/page/n372 163]–176 |publisher = Te s'Gravenhage en Amsterdam : Bij de Gebroeders van Cleef |trans-title=Introduction to Numeracy |access-date = 2011-03-02}}</ref>

Its relationship to the English foot was clarified in 1859 by an act of the government of the [Cape Colony](/source/Cape_Colony), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa). It was used for [land surveying](/source/land_surveying) and [title deed](/source/title_deed)s in rural areas of South Africa apart from [Natal](/source/KwaZulu-Natal) and was used for urban surveying and title deeds in the [Transvaal](/source/Transvaal_Province).<ref>{{cite web |title = What is the unit called a cape foot? |url = https://www.sizes.com/units/cape_foot.htm |work = Sizes.com |access-date = 2011-12-25 |date=8 November 2011}}</ref> There were 144 square Cape feet in one Cape rood and 600 Cape roods (86,400 square Cape feet) in one [morgen](/source/morgen).<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.lawsoc.co.za/webs/surveyorgeneral/2007_11_area_conversion.doc |title = Instructions for the Conversions of Areas to Metric |publisher = Law Society of South Africa |date = November 2007 |access-date = 2010-03-10 |archive-date = 2018-03-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180320105433/https://www.lawsoc.co.za/webs/surveyorgeneral/2007_11_area_conversion.doc |url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.fig.net/pub/cairo/papers/wshs_03/wshs03_02_zakiewich.pdf |author = Tomasz Zakiewicz |title = The Cape Geodetic Standards and Their Impact on Africa |publisher = FIG |location = Cairo |date = April 2005 |access-date = 2012-01-04 |archive-date = 2012-01-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120120235610/http://www.fig.net/pub/cairo/papers/wshs_03/wshs03_02_zakiewich.pdf |url-status = dead }}</ref>

Its use ended when South Africa adopted the metric system in 1977.

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