Faure is a hamlet some 16 km south-west of Stellenbosch and 13 km north-west of Strand, next to the suburb of Croydon. Administratively it is a suburb of the City of Cape Town, and is in the Helderberg region.[1] Nearby is the kramat or tomb of Sheik Yusuf (1626-1699), an Islamic expatriate priest.

Faure is a common surname; it is uncertain after whom this place was named.[2] It may have been named after Pieter Faure, the name of South Africa's first trawler which arrived in Table Bay in 1897.[citation needed]

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  1. ↑ "Official planning suburbs". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Raper, Peter E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Internet Archive. p. 162. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faure,_South_Africa