Cathcart District, Eastern Cape
… January 1877, and it was raised to a fiscal divisional on 1 December 1879. Its economic base was largely agrarian, but … for the division: 891 census: 6,881 residents, of whom 1,739 were literate then in 1904 census: 11,468 residents, of … had a population of 601. By 1904 this number had risen to 1,714. In 1877 the amaNgqika, who occupied the territory …