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Port of Port Elizabeth. / 33.950°S 25.633°E / -33.950; 25.633 ( Port of Port Elizabeth) The Port of Port Elizabeth is a port in the city of Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Located in Algoa Bay, it handles dry bulk, bulk liquid, breakbulk and containers, as well as providing facilities for tugs and fishing vessels.
Xhosa. iBhayi. Afrikaans. Port Elizabeth. Sesotho. Baye. Gqeberha ( Xhosa: [ᶢǃʱɛ̀ɓéːxà]; English: / kɛˈbɛərxə / keh-BAIR-khə[ 3] ), formerly known as Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., [ a] is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson ...
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. [1]
1940 - NG gemeente Port Elizabeth-Wes [ af] (church) founded. 1940 - Victoria Park High School was founded. 1949 - Adcockvale [ af] suburb laid out (approximate date). 1950 - Evening Post [ af] newspaper begins publication. [5] 1951 - Van Stadens-veldblomreservaat [ af] (nature reserve) established near city.
Coega. Coordinates: 33°48′12″S 25°41′30″E. View from St George beach. The Coega Special Economic Zone (SEZ), established in 1999 and 9 003 ha in extent, [1] is situated near Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The initiative is a multibillion-dollar industrial development complex customised for ...
Port of Ngqura. / 33.80083°S 25.68389°E / -33.80083; 25.68389. The Port of Ngqura is a deepwater port on the east coast ( Indian Ocean) of South Africa, 20 km northeast of Gqeberha. It was authorised by an act of parliament in 2002, construction started in September 2002 and the port became operational in October 2009 when the MSC ...
Fort Frederick, Eastern Cape. Fort Frederick in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, was built in 1799 in order to stop the French from conquering the Cape Colony during the Napoleonic wars and played a vital role in establishing British rule in South Africa in combination with the Battle of Blaauwberg. The fort has never fired a shot from its guns.
The South African smart identity card – known as a Smart ID Card – replaces the old green bar-coded identity book. [ 1] Both are identity documents that serve as proof of a person's identity. This proof includes a person's photograph, their full name, their date of birth, their place of birth, and their unique identity number.