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Mar 16, 2011

Clumber, Eastern Cape

The Village of Clumber was established on land allocated in 1820 to Dr Thomas Carlton, leader of a party of settlers fro...

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Cathcart District, Eastern Cape

The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to a fiscal divisional on 1 December 1879. Its e...

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Centlivres, a Railway Siding-16 Km from Uitenhage

The Railway Siding of Centlivres was probably named in honour of John Centlivres Chase, a British settler who emigrated ...

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Ciskei

The Ciskei Bantustan in the Eastern Cape was created as an enclave for the South Africa's Xhosa-speaking people as part ...

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Clarkebury, Eastern Cape

The Village of Clarkebury was established in 1830 as a station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. James Backh...

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British Kaffraria, now the Border Region

Territory of British Kaffraria On 21 December 1834 massed Xhosa armies attacked the eastern regions of the Cape Colon...

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Cape Maclear, Malawi

In 1859, the missionary and explorer David Livingstone found the Cape, and named it "Cape Maclear" after his friend, the...

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Cape Province- 'Province of Good Hope'

The Cape Provinces official name was: 'The Province of the Cape of Good Hope', but is often just called: 'The Cape.'  ...

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Cape St Francis, Western Cape Peninsula

Manuel Perestrelo visited Cape St Francis in 1575 and named it 'Bahia de Sao Francisco'. Work on the lighthouse on Seal ...

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Carlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape

Carlisle Bridge is a District of Farmsteads and is known as Carlislebrug. It is located in the Cacadu Municipality ...

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Addo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape

Addo Drift was the first convenient natural crossing of the Sunday's River to be encountered inland from the sea, and wa...

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Bathurst, Eastern Cape

Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, is one of the smallest but most interesting Municipalities in South Africa. Founded i...

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Belvidere, Knysna

Captain Thomas Henry Duthie emigrated to the Cape in 1826. In 1830 he visited Knysna, where he was the guest of George R...

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Bethesda Road, Graaf-Reniet

On 6 August 1901, during the Second Anglo Boer War, Boer forces under Commandant Hans Lotter entered Bethesda Road in Gr...

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Camdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape

 Aberdeen is about 50 km South-West of Graaff-Reinet and only 3 hours drive from Port Elizabeth.Aberdeen was f...

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