Table Mountain
Table Mountain is perhaps best known as the name of the iconic mountain dominating the city of Cape Town in South Africa, a declared World Heritage Site. Known as Tafelberg in Dutch and Afrikaans, the mountain often features as the topic and/or setting for myths, stories, plays, films and the like.
In fact there are a number of flat-topped mountains in the world with this name, including a mountain in Suriname, a hill in Curaçao and a mountain in Baden-Württemberg, Germany (there known as "Täfelberg").
As the name of a business
Many South African companies, literary works and other entities have used the name over the years, particularly in its Afrikaans form - Tafelberg.
For example, a prominent case in point is the publishing house Tafelberg Uitgewers, which is sometimes referred to simply as Tafelberg.
For this company, see the entry on Tafelberg Uitgewers.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafelberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Mountain
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