Zwelitsha
| Zwelitsha | |||
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 55 ′ S , 27 ° 25 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | South Africa | ||
| Eastern Cape | |||
| District | Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-EC | ||
| height | 388 m | ||
| Residents | 18,189 (2011) | ||
| founding | 1947 | ||
Zwelitsha ( isiXhosa ; German roughly: "New Hope") is a city in the South African metropolitan municipality of Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape Province . It was founded as a township in 1946 .
geography
In 2011 Zwelitsha had 18,189 inhabitants. Mainly Xhosa and Mfengu live there . The place is immediately south of King William's Town . The Buffalo River runs along the western edge .
history
Zwelitsha was founded in 1946 as a township for blacks in order to provide labor for nearby industrial plants, for example for the Good Hope textile factory in King William's Town from 1950 . In 1947 the first residents came to Zwelitsha. Originally there were "zones" 1 to 5, in the 1960s zones 6 to 10 were set up to the south. Most of the houses were built by the South African Bantu Trust and could only be rented. The expansion to the administrative headquarters was also carried out with funds from the Bantu Trust .
From 1972 to 1981 Zwelitsha was the administrative seat of the Homeland Ciskei before it was moved to Alice and finally to Bhisho .
Zone 10 in Zwelitsha was a center of the Black Consciousness Movement in the first half of the 1970s . Mapetla Mohapi , a leading member of the umbrella organization Black People's Convention , was only allowed to stay in Zwelitsha and King William's Town due to a ban . In 1985 there were student protests at Nompendulo High School in Zone 10, which were ended by security forces. A memorial was erected at the school in 2000 for the students who drowned while escaping in the Buffalo River.
Infrastructure
On the eastern edge of the town runs the R346 road, which connects Stutterheim via King William's Town and Zwelitsha with the west of East London . The National Route 2 leads few kilometers north in an east-west direction through King William's Town.
Zwelitsha has a branch of Lovedale Public FET College that offers engineering and technician courses.
Web links
- Private website about Zwelitsha (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the City of Cape Town on Khayelitsha ( memento of October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on October 18, 2014
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed on October 18, 2014
- ↑ a b Shaper Helix: Zwelitsha . Zwelitsha private website at www.zwelitsha.co.za , accessed October 18, 2014
- ↑ Muriel Horrell: The African Homelands of South Africa . SAIRR , Johannesburg 1973, p. 146
- ^ Sights in King William's Town and the surrounding area ( Memento from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English, PDF), accessed on October 18, 2014
- ↑ Zwelitsha Campus website , accessed October 18, 2014