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Uitenhage. Clockwise from Top: Vier of the town, Cuyler Manor, Victoria Tower. Uitenhage (/ ˈjuːtənheɪɡ / YOO-tən-hayg; [3] Afrikaans: [œitənˈɦɑːχə]), officially renamed Kariega, [4] is a South African town in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on ...
In the onshore part of the southern Cape, deposits of the Uitenhage Group occur predominantly in the Algoa and Gamtoos Basins, which are situated north/north-west of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala oMbaxa iNelson Mandela Bay; Afrikaans: Nelson Mandelabaai Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit) is one of eight metropolitan municipalities in South Africa. It is located on the shores of Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape province and comprises the city of Gqeberha, the nearby towns of Uitenhage and ...
On Saturday, 13 April 1985, a mass burial was held to mourn the deaths of 29 people who had died after being shot by police in Langa township, Uitenhage on 21 March was held at KwaNobuhle Stadium. The 29 deceased people were buried in a mass grave in KwaNobuhle Cemetery. The families of the other six people who died from the massacre opted for ...
Cuyler Manor (SAHRA 9/2/095/0017), or Cuyler House, is a historic house museum in the Western Region of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Cuyler Manor was designated as a Provincial Heritage Site on March 14, 1980. [1][2] In addition to the farm house, the visitor house, coach house, wagon house, and mill house are protected historic ...
Map showing extent of the Kirkwood Formation (green) in the Algoa and Gamtoos Basins. The Kirkwood Formation is a geological formation found in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces in South Africa. It is one of the four formations found within the Uitenhage Group of the Algoa Basin – its type locality – and in the neighbouring Gamtoos Basin.
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Potgieter was born the fourth child and fourth son of farmer Petrus Philippus Potgieter (Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 14 December 1820 – British concentration camp Klerksdorp, 20 December 1901) [6] and Wilhelmina Jacoba Pieterse (Cradock, Eastern Cape, 25 August 1826 – Farm Matjiesspruit, Makwassie, now North West province, 18 August 1880), among six sons and three daughters.