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King William's Town

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King William's Town is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa along the banks of the Buffalo River. [1]

42 relations: Adelaide, Eastern Cape, Amathole Mountains, Amathole Museum, Apartheid, Benjamin D'Urban, Berlin, Eastern Cape, Bhisho, Black Consciousness Movement, Braunschweig, Eastern Cape, British German Legion, British Kaffraria, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Buffalo River (Eastern Cape), Buster Farrer, Cape Colony, Central business district, Charles Coghlan (politician), Crimean War, East London, Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape, Frankfort, Eastern Cape, Garry Pagel, Griffiths Mxenge, Hamburg, Eastern Cape, Huberta (hippopotamus), Indian Ocean, Internal resistance to apartheid, John Charles Molteno, John Tengo Jabavu, Kaffraria, Makhaya Ntini, Potsdam, Eastern Cape, Rhodesia, South Africa, South Africa national rugby union team, Steve Biko, Stutterheim, Test cricket, Victoria Mxenge, William IV of the United Kingdom, Xhosa people, Xhosa Wars.

Adelaide, Eastern Cape

Adelaide is a rural town and area in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Amathole Mountains

Amatola, Amatole or Amathole are a range of densely forested mountains, situated in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Amathole Museum

The Amathole Museum, formerly the Kaffrarian Museum is a natural and cultural history museum located in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Benjamin D'Urban

Lieutenant General Sir Benjamin Alfred D'Urban (1777 – 25 May 1849) was a British general and colonial administrator, who is best known for his frontier policy when he was the Governor in the Cape Colony (now in South Africa).

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Berlin, Eastern Cape

Berlin is a small town in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Bhisho

Bhisho (formerly Bisho) is the capital of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa.

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Black Consciousness Movement

The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.

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Braunschweig, Eastern Cape

Braunschweig is a small town in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

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British German Legion

The British German Legion (or Anglo-German Legion) was a group of German soldiers recruited to fight for Britain in the Crimean War.

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British Kaffraria

British Kaffraria was a British colony/subordinate administrative entity in present-day South Africa, consisting of the districts now known as King Williams Town and East London.

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Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality

Buffalo City is a metropolitan municipality situated on the east coast of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

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Buffalo River (Eastern Cape)

The Buffalo River is situated in the city of East London on the East Coast of South Africa.

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Buster Farrer

William Stephen "Buster" Farrer (born 8 December 1936 in King William's Town, Cape Province) is a former South African cricketer who played in six Tests from 1962 to 1964.

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Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.

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Charles Coghlan (politician)

Sir Charles Patrick John Coghlan, (24 June 1863 – 28 August 1927), was a lawyer and politician who served as Premier (later Prime Minister) of Southern Rhodesia from 1 October 1923 to his death.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.

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East London, Eastern Cape

East London is a city on the southeast coast of South Africa in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality of the Eastern Cape province.

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Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa.

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Frankfort, Eastern Cape

Frankfort is a town in Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Garry Pagel

Garry Louis Pagel (born 17 September 1966 in King Williams Town, South Africa), is a former South African rugby union player who played for the South Africa national rugby union team between 1995 and 1996.

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Griffiths Mxenge

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, (27 February 1935 – 19 November 1981) was born in KwaRayi, a rural settlement outside of King Williams Town, Eastern Cape.

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Hamburg, Eastern Cape

Hamburg is a small town with about 100 inhabitants in the Eastern Cape province, in South Africa.

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Huberta (hippopotamus)

Huberta (initially named Hubert; the gender was discovered after death) was a hippopotamus and one of the most famous animals in South African history.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Internal resistance to apartheid

Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and alternatively took the form of social movements, passive resistance, or guerrilla warfare.

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John Charles Molteno

Sir John Charles Molteno (5 June 1814 – 1 September 1886) was a soldier, businessman, champion of responsible government and the first Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.

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John Tengo Jabavu

John Tengo Jabavu (11 January 1859 – 10 September 1921) was a political activist and the editor of South Africa's first newspaper to be written in Xhosa.

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Kaffraria

Kaffraria was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of what is today the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

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Makhaya Ntini

Makhaya Ntini OIS (born 6 July 1977) is a former South African cricketer, who played all forms of the game.

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Potsdam, Eastern Cape

Potsdam is a town in Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Rhodesia

Rhodesia was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South Africa national rugby union team

The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks, is governed by the South African Rugby Union.

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Steve Biko

Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

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Stutterheim

Stutterheim is a town with a population of 46,730 in South Africa, situated in the Border region of the Eastern Cape province.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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Victoria Mxenge

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, (1 January 1942, King William's Town, Eastern Cape – 1 August 1985 Umlazi, Durban, Natal) was a South African anti-apartheid activist; she was trained as a nurse and midwife, and later began practising law.

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William IV of the United Kingdom

William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837.

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Xhosa people

The Xhosa people are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa mainly found in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa, and in the last two centuries throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country.

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Xhosa Wars

The Xhosa Wars (also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, or Africa's 100 Years War) were a series of nine wars or flare-ups (from 1779 to 1879) between the Xhosa tribes and European settlers in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa.

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Redirects here:

King William's Town, Eastern Cape, King Williams Town, King William’s Town.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_William's_Town

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