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About Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Uitenhage is a South African town with 275,185 inhabitants in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well-known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent. The town's name is pronounced by English speakers and [œjtənˈɦɑːxə] in Afrikaans. The city of Port Elizabeth and the small town of Despatch are located near Uitenhage.

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Uitenhage is known for the large industries situated there. The largest of these industries are the Volkswagen and Goodyear factories. An automotive supplier park, Alexander Park Industrial, has also been created directly next to the Volkswagen factory, thus allowing automotive component manufacturers to construct their manufacturing plants close by.

Because of its green parks, Uitenhage is known as the garden town of the sunshine coast. The Uitenhage Nature Reserve offers bird watching and indigenous plants. The Prickly Pear Festival is held in Uitenhage near the end of February at the Cuyler Hofstede Farm, with plenty of fun for the kids, and interesting prickly pear cactus products ranging from jam to moonshine.

 

Uitenhage History

Uitenhage was founded on 25 April 1804 by landdrost (district magistrate) Jacob Glen Cuyler and named in honour of the Cape's Commissioner-General Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist by the Dutch Cape Colony governor, Jan Willem Janssens. Uitenhage formed from part of the district of Graaff Reinet (shortly after its short-lived secession) and in 1877 it became a municipality.

In 1985, police opened fire on a funeral procession in Uitenhage, killing a number of unarmed people, in an event that became notorious as an example of police oppression in South Africa under apartheid.In 2001 it was incorporated with Port Elizabeth and Despatch into the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.

Towns and Suburbs of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

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