Timeline of Port Elizabeth

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The following is a timeline of the history of Gqeberha in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

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Prior to 20th century[]

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20th century[]

  • 1903 - New Brighton black township established.
  • 1905 - Horse Memorial erected.
  • 1907
  • 1908 - Port Elizabeth Orthodox Hebrew Congregation formed.[chronology citation needed]
  • 1912 -  [de] built.
  • 1913 - Port Elizabeth gains its city status.[1]
  • 1917 - Airplane flown from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth.[citation needed]
  • 1928 -  [af] (church) founded.
  • 1929 - Port Elizabeth Airport and  [af] (church) established.
  • 1936 - Campanile (belltower) installed.
  • 1937 -  [af] newspaper begins publication.[5]
  • 1940 -  [af] (church) founded.
  • 1940 - Victoria Park High School was founded
  • 1949 -  [af] suburb laid out (approximate date).
  • 1950 -  [af] newspaper begins publication.[5]
  • 1951 - Van Stadens-veldblomreservaat [af] (nature reserve) established near city.
  • 1952 - Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba and Vuyisile Mini were imprisoned for three months in Rooi Hel ('Red Hell' or North End Prison, Port Elizabeth) for participating in the Defiance Campaign.
  • 1954 - 20th Century Theatre in business.[10]
  • 1960
  • 1961 - 16 December: Bomb explosions occur.[11]
  • 1964 - University of Port Elizabeth established.
  • 1965 - Walmer, South Africa becomes part of Port Elizabeth.
  • 1969 - Kouga Dam begins operating in vicinity of city.
  • 1979 - Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation founded.
  • 1984
    • Port Elizabeth Youth Congress founded.[1]
    • Development of Motherwell begins near city.
  • 1985
  • 1986 -  [de] established.(de)
  • 1991 - Population: 303,353 city; 853,205 metro.[5]
  • 1995
    • Nceba Faku elected mayor.[14]
    • Part of 1995 Rugby World Cup contest played in Port Elizabeth.
  • 1996 - Part of 1996 Africa Cup of Nations football contest played in Port Elizabeth.

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Port Elizabeth, South Africa". Britannica.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  2. ^ W. H. Hosking (1914). "Chronology of South Africa". South African Year-book. London: George Routledge and Sons. pp. 10–27.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Port Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986". Cape Town: South African History Online. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  4. ^ H.L. Huisman (1971). "How Port Elizabeth got its first jetty". Civil Engineering. 13. hdl:10520/AJA10212019_18711. Free to read
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "South Africa". Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 9781857431315. ISSN 0065-3896.
  6. ^ Isidore Harris, ed. (1901), "Colonial Synagogues: South Africa", Jewish Year Book, London: Greenberg & Co.
  7. ^ Huisman, H L (October 1986). "The coming of the Railway to the Cape". hdl:2263/47120. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ Robert Ross; et al., eds. (2011). Cambridge History of South Africa. 2: 1885–1994. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521869836.
  9. ^ "The South African Exhibition, Port Elizabeth, 1885: Lectures, Prize and ... - Google Books". 1886. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Movie Theaters in Port Elizabeth, South Africa". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  11. ^ Jacqueline Audrey Kalley; et al., eds. (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-30247-3.
  12. ^ Mark Swilling (1985). "Urban Social Movements under Apartheid". Cahiers d'Études africaines. 25 (99): 363–379. doi:10.3406/cea.1985.1735 – via Persee.fr. Free to read
  13. ^ "Report: The March Stay-aways in Port Elizabeth and UItenhage". South African Labour Bulletin. 11. 1985. ISSN 0377-5429.
  14. ^ "Former Mandela Bay mayor lashes out at Zuma", Iol.co.za, 23 November 2016
  15. ^ "Pecc.gov.za". Archived from the original on 3 June 2002.
  16. ^ "Mandelametro.gov.za". Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. Archived from the original on 23 October 2005 – via Wayback Machine.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Danny Jordaan ANC's choice to replace Nelson Mandela Bay mayor", News24.com, 18 May 2015
  18. ^ "BREAKING | It is official, Port Elizabeth has a new name — Gqeberha". DispatchLIVE. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
This article incorporates information from the Afrikaans Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

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  • Port Elizabeth Directory and Guide to the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope. Port Elizabeth: J.W.C. Mackay. 1877.
  • John Noble, ed. (1886). "Cities and Towns of the Colony". Official Handbook: History, Productions and Resources of the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co. for the Colonial & Indian Exhibition Committee. Port Elizabeth
  • "Port Elizabeth", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Eleanor K Lorimer (1971). Panorama of Port Elizabeth. Cape Town: A. A. Balkema. OCLC 297945.
  • H.O. Terblanche (1977). "Die trek van die Afrikaner na Port Elizabeth" [Trek of the Afrikaner to Port Elizabeth]. Historia. Historical Association of South Africa. hdl:10520/AJA0018229X_323. open access
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  • J.G. Nel (1989). "Making of an Apartheid City: The Case of Port Elizabeth, Republic of South Africa". African Urban Quarterly. 4. ISSN 0747-6108.
  • A. J. Christopher (1991). "Port Elizabeth". In Anthony Lemon (ed.). Homes Apart: South Africa's Segregated Cities. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33321-0.
  • Janet Cherry (1993). "myth of working class defeat: Port Elizabeth in the post-war years". Kronos: Journal of Cape History. University of the Western Cape. 20. hdl:10520/AJA02590190_435. Free to read
  • H.O. Terblanche; M.J. Swart (1993). "Die Afrikaner se stryd om taalgelykberegtiging in Port Elizabeth, 1902-1937" [Afrikaner's struggle for language equality in Port Elizabeth, 1902-1937]. South African Journal of Cultural History (in Afrikaans). 7. hdl:10520/AJA10113053_59. Free to read
  • Jennifer Robinson (1993). "Politics of urban form: differential citizenship and township formation in Port Elizabeth 1925-1945". Kronos: Journal of Cape History. 20. hdl:10520/AJA02590190_434. Free to read
  • Gary Baines (1998). "Port Elizabeth history: a select annotated bibliography". South African Historical Journal (38).
  • H.O. Terblanche (1998). "Die stigting van die eerste Afrikaanse koerante in Port Elizabeth" [Foundation of the first Afrikaans newspapers in Port Elizabeth]. South African Journal of Cultural History (in Afrikaans). hdl:10520/AJA10113053_103. Free to read
  • Gary Baines (2004). "A Progressive South African City?". Journal of Urban History. 31.

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