Adcockvale, Port Elizabeth Suburb

Prehistory of the Port Elizabeth area

The coastline of the Eastern Cape is treacherous, and several ships ran aground or sunk offshore after Vasco de Gama rou

Colonial History of Port Elizabeth

Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Afr

Port Elizabeth the Segregated city

Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population

Community histories in Port Elizabeth

Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African cit

Port Elizabeth Historical & community biographies

Port Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986

1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick.