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The Boland Amateur Radio Club was established during June 1948 as the Tak Boland and on 25 May 1996 the name was changed to Boland Amateur Radio Klub.
BARK is the largest club in the Western Cape with predominantly Afrikaans-speaking members, some of whom live outside the Boland area in the whole of the Western Cape Region.
What is the Boland?
Boland is an area in the Western Cape Province of South Africa without clearly defined boundaries that mainly indicates the wine and fruit-producing part of the province.
Well-known towns in the Boland are: Franschhoek, Malmesbury, Paarl, Stellenbosch, Tulbagh, Villiersdorp, Wellington and Worcester.
It is a world renouned mountainous area with mainly winter rainfall.