Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vredenburg is a town of the Cape West Coast in the Western Cape province of South Africa. "Vrede" is Afrikaans for peace. It is the transportation and commercial hub of the West Coast area and administrative center of the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality. It is located 12km inland from the coast at Saldanha Bay on the Cape Columbine Peninsula 138km north of Cape Town. The town was established in 1875 initially as a Dutch Reformed Church to serve the surrounding communities, as the closest church was in Hopefield. The town''s original name was "Twisfontein", which in Afrikaans would be translated to troubled fountain or similar.