Algoa Park, Suburb of Port Elizabeth

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 Timeline 1799-1986

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

Community histories in Port Elizabeth

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

Algoa Bay, East Coast of Cape of Good Hope

Old name for Algoa Bay was Angra da Roca named in 1488, by Bartolomeu Dias when he was the first European to land there.

Cape of Good Hope: For Vasco de Gama

Dutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)

The Cape Peninsula is surrounded by oceans on three sides and has three natural harbours: Table Bay and Hout Bay on the