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Mdantsane is a South African urban township situated 15 km away from East London and 37 km away from Qonce in the Eastern Cape. It is the second largest township in Eastern Cape and 17th largest in the Top 20 largest townships in South Africa. [1] The name Mdantsane was derived from a stream that ran from the Nahoon River down to the Buffalo ...
Name Code District Seat Area (km²) [1] Population (2016) [2] Pop. density (per km²) Amahlathi Local Municipality: EC124 Amathole Stutterheim: 4,505 101,826 22.6
The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala oMbaxa wase Buffalo City) is a metropolitan municipality situated on the east coast of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
In 1953, residents in the East Bank were forcibly moved to the new township of Mdantsane. [12] In February 1966, the South African government defined Mdantsane as a separate homeland township. In 1956, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd , who was the architect of apartheid, forbade the East London municipality from extending the existing Duncan ...
The municipalities of South Africa as of 2016. This is a list of municipalities of South Africa.The largest metropolitan areas are governed by metropolitan municipalities, while the rest of the country is divided into district municipalities, each of which consists of several local municipalities.
To deal with the issue of overcrowding and poor hygiene in the township and surrounding areas, the East London Municipality created Mdantsane in 1962. Between 1964 and 1983, 80 000 people were moved from Duncan Village to Mdantsane. [3] In 1985, the East London Municipality launched a plan to improve Duncan Village into a middle-class ...
Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (CMH) is a large, provincial, government-funded district general hospital situated in the Mdantsane township near East London, Eastern Cape in South Africa. It is a tertiary teaching hospital and forms part of the East London Hospital Complex with Frere Hospital.
No. Direction Description of Route Suburbs Street Names M1: North/South: R72 (City Centre) - M15 - M4 - M5/R102 - N2 - M11 (Dorchester Heights) CBD, Arcadia, Southernwood, Selbourne, Vincent, Dorchester Heights