CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · General Reference

Ubuntu Cape Town F.C.

South African football club

Cross-disciplinary reference desk with index cards, atlas, dictionary and catalogue
General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ43847651 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ubuntu Cape Town FC is a South African football club in the city of Cape Town. As of 2024–25, the club plays in the Western Cape Stream of the SAFA Second Division.

The club was created when the Ubuntu Football Trust purchased the franchise license of FC Cape Town in 2017.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ubuntu Cape Town F.C.” as south African football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017. The account is most persuasive where Ubuntu, Cape and Town can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as south African football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43847651. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 2017.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ubuntu Cape Town F.C.”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ubuntu Cape Town F.C. primary sources, Ubuntu Cape Town F.C. archive and Ubuntu research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ubuntu Cape Town F.C.”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ubuntu Cape Town F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.