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The district of Uitenhage is founded in the Eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist

Published 19 April 2013Updated 30 September 2019
This Day in History: 25 April 1804
The town of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape Province was founded when then Commissioner-General Jacob Uitenhage de Mist felt there was a need to improve the colonial administration of the Cape areas. The new district of Uitenhage was then founded and was named after de Mist. Uitenhage is today a thriving industrial town. It boasts the Volkswagen factory which is the largest car factory on the African continent.

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