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Mar 16, 2011

Graaff-Reinet Division

The district of Graaff-Reinet was constituted on 26 August 1785 and its boundaries were proclaimed on 17 July 1786. Howe...

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Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was called Graaf-Reinet

The oldest town in the Eastern Cape, the fourth oldest in South Africa and certainly one of the most atmospheric, Graaff...

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Grahamstown

TODAY GRAHAMSTOWN HAS BEEN RENAMED MAKHANDA

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Glen Grey Division

The frontier war of 1850-53 was precipitated when the amaNgqika, faced with the increased pressure of European settlemen...

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Gonubie

The village of Gonubie derived its name from a Khoikhoi term for the brambleberry bush.

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Goshen

It was established by the Transvaal Boers in 1884, as a Republic. Their flag was horizontal black-white-red stripes with...

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Fort Cunynghame

Fort Cunynghame was a telegraph office which, together with Komgha and a number of other establishments in the Transkeia...

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Fort Wiltshire

Fort Wiltshire was erected by the British military during the frontier war of 1818-19, and was named in honour of Lt-Col...

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Gamtoos River

The Gamtoos river probably derived its name from a Khoikhoi clan whose name was given by early Dutch settlers as "Gamtou...

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Glen Grey

The village of Glen Grey was named in honour of Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape 1854-61. On 17 July 1902 a fire br...

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Ethembeni

The village of Etembeni was established in 1868 as a station of the Berlin Missionary Society.

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Fort Beaufort

Initially the division of Fort Beaufort fell under the district of Albany, and was proclaimed a separate division on 8 M...

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Fort Cox

Fort Cox was a "post of occupation" established by the British military in 1835 and was named in honour of Major William...

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Mjanyana Hospital

The village of Emjanyana was probably established in the mid-1970s, in Ngcobo Eastern Cape.  In 1894 the Society fo...

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Ngcobo

On 1 November 1859, a day known in the Christian calender as All Saints Day, Chief Fubu of the amaQwathi met with Archde...

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