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Lady Frere

Lady Frere

Town in Emalahleni Municipality

This article is about the renamed town, Lady Frere. For the formerly named Cacadu District Municipality, see Sarah Baartman District Municipality.

Lady Frere (officially Cacadu) is a small town in Chris Hani District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town was renamed to Cacadu in 2017 after changes to the country's colonial names.[2] Cacadu, meaning "bulrush water", is the Xhosa name for the White Kei River, which rises in the district.

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History

The town was established 1879,[3] and became a municipality in 1900. The town was named after the wife of Sir Henry Bartle Frere, governor of the Cape Colony from 1877 to 1880.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Sum of the Main Places Lady Frere and Bhongolwethu from Census 2011.
  2. [2]
    "New names, but no signs say EC residents". SABC News. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  3. [3]
    Erasmus, B. P. J. (1995). On Route in South Africa. Internet Archive. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-86842-026-1.
  4. [4]
    Raper, P. E. (1989). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-947464-04-2 – via Internet Archive.


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