The Bo-Kaap, which lies on the fringes of Cape Town’s city centre, is full of character and colourful houses many of which are national monuments which date back to the 1750s, with cobbled streets that rise to meet the lower slopes of Signal Hill on which the suburb lies.  The inhabitants are a blend of cultures that descend from slaves imported by the Dutch in the 1700s.They came from Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the Indonesian Archipelago. Now known to the world as the Malay Quarter.