Despite this the town's ANC-run local government and most local residents still refer to the town as Mafikeng both informally and formally.

Despite the lack of beaches in town's area, there are a lot of them at distance of 20 minute travel by bus, train or taxi.

Despite Schiele's family connections in Krumau, he and his lover were driven out of the town by the residents, who strongly disapproved of their lifestyle, including his alleged employment of the town's teenage girls as models.

Despite the town's relatively small area and population compared to other municipalities in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Paradise Valley is home to twelve resorts, making it one of Arizona's premiere tourist destinations.

Despite its small size, the town's scenic location on a headland surrounded by the Pacific Ocean has made it extremely popular as an artist colony and with vacationers.

Despite the small number of students in the town's high school ( 7-12 in a graduating class ), basketball, track and field, volleyball, cheerleading as well as American football are accessible to all students because of cooperation with a neighboring high school.

Despite the post-war boom, the cotton industry continued to decline, and only 25 % of the town's population were employed in textiles by 1951: it had been 60 % up to the beginning of the Great Depression, in 1929.

Despite the name suggesting a central location, it is some distance from Watford town centre compared with the town's other stations, and.

Despite the town's small population, Ross County are able to attract sizeable crowds to Victoria Park thereby maintaining the UK's most northerly full-time squad.

Despite the resistance, almost all of the town's once 7, 000-strong Jewish community was murdered in Nazi concentration camps.

Despite the town's relatively low population, the early 2000s saw many new developments, including Asda, Boots pharmacy, Halfords, Marks & Spencer, Matalan, McDonald's, Next, Subway fast-food outlet and Tesco Extra.

Despite the decline of the monastery, its influence can still be observed in the modern town ; streets names such as Abbots Close and Abbots Walk in the area of the Abbey give clues as to the town's illustrious ecclesiastical past. Bangor ’ s founder, Comgall, was born in Antrim in 517.

Despite these efforts the town's population has continued to fall and in recent years the town has been dubbed the ' most dismal in Scotland '.

Despite the former town's political ties to Nakatsu City, it is geographically closer to Hita City to its west.

Despite the religious significance of its name ( it is Russian for Providence ), the town's name was never changed during the Soviet era, although a large statue of Vladimir Lenin ( which still stands ) was erected there.

Despite fears that the supermarket would threaten the existence of the town's main shopping streets, the majority of businesses have survived, and there are a number of specialist award-winning shops selling cheese ( House of Cheese ), breads ( Hobbs House ) and meats ( Jesse Smiths ).

Despite being historically a Welsh-speaking area, the majority of the town's population is now English-speaking, however there is a significant Welsh-speaking minority.

The town's area is 4. 69 km² and the average altitude 5 m. Despite its low average height, the town contains two hills which form the natural limits of the commune:

Despite the town's population of 3, 560, Cabot Cove became notable as a place where a large number of murders took place.

Despite that setback, the town's economic advantages allowed it to recuperate quickly.

Despite appearing proudly on the town's coat of arms, Newbury Castle doesn't appear to have been built in Newbury, England at all, but four miles away in the village of Hamstead Marshall.

Despite its controversy and the fact that the cast included Steve Carlson, Jane Elliot ( fresh from her run as Tracy on GH & Carrie on GL ), and Lara Parker ( famous as the witch Angelique on the cult Dark Shadows ) and that it was produced and sometimes directed by daytime veteran actress Susan Flannery, A New Day in Eden only lasted 13 episodes, and its cliffhanger left the question of who was the town's serial rapist up in the air.

Despite bombarding Anstruther, Jones did not attack Pittenweem, but did make off with the town's pilot who had sailed out to meet Jones ' squadron.

Despite the presence of famous cultivations of lemons ( the meaning of the city's name in Italian ), the town's name is probably derived from the ancient lemos ( elm ) or limes ( Latin: boundary, referring to the communes of Brescia and the Bishopric of Trento ).

Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.

Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Despite this growth, the military still does not receive sufficient funds for modernization.

Despite the growth of Bayesian research, most undergraduate teaching is still based on frequentist statistics.

Despite the region's absence of economic growth on the same scale as other parts of the nation, the Maritimes has changed markedly throughout the 20th century, partly as a result of global and national economic trends, and partly as a result of government intervention.

Despite the recent modest and stable growth, Djibouti is faced with many economic challenges, particularly job creation and poverty reduction.

Despite the championship, the team did not draw enough fans to stay solvent at the major league level, as Detroit was at the time one of the smallest cities in the National League and its rapid industry-fueled growth was still several years in the future.

Despite the growth, GDP per capita declined in 2003 by 10 percent in real terms, according to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.

Despite the severe damage the economy of Georgia suffered due to civil strife in the 1990s, Georgia, with the help of the IMF and World Bank, has made substantial economic gains since 2000, achieving robust GDP growth and curtailing inflation.

Despite this growth, Hilversum was never granted city rights so it is still referred to by many locals as " het dorp ," or " the village.

Despite a slowing global economy, Indonesia ’ s economic growth accelerated to a ten-year high of 6. 3 % in 2007.

Despite this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.

Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.

Despite lowering the Central Bank bills rate, the Central Bank has not changed liquidity indicators for banks or the reserve requirement since 2009, curbing credit growth to 7. 5 % in the first three quarters of 2011.

Despite the fact that the pace of privatization and industrial output has slowed, GDP growth was 7. 3 percent in 2004, consumption continues to grow, and the currency continues to appreciate.

Despite its rapid growth, the Paraguayan economy became increasingly dependent on soybeans and cotton for exports and overall economic dynamism.

Despite the sustained economic growth that marked the postwar period, the distribution of economic benefits was highly inequitable.

Despite the immense economic growth, however, the standard of living for city laborers and farmers was still low.

Despite the economic growth and results in diplomacy, the government, having gained power by coup d ' etat, was essentially a military regime.

Despite the South Korean economy's high growth potential and apparent structural stability, South Korea suffers perpetual damage to its credit rating in the stock market due to the belligerence of North Korea in times of deep military crises, which has an adverse effect on the financial markets of the South Korean economy.

Despite the global financial crisis, the South Korean economy, helped by timely stimulus measures and strong domestic consumption of products that compensated for a drop in exports, was able to avoid a recession unlike most industrialized economies, posting positive economic growth for two consecutive years of the crisis.

Despite the halting pace of reform and signs of slowing GDP growth today, Slovenians now enjoy the highest per capita income of all the transition economies of central Europe.

Despite economic growth during Lacalle's term, adjustment and privatization efforts provoked political opposition, and some reforms were overturned by referendum.