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Eastern Cape a province of S South Africa; formed in 1994 from the E part of the former Cape Province: service industries, agriculture, and mining. Capital: Bisho. Pop.: 7 088 547 (2004 est.). Area: 169 600 sq. km (65 483 sq. miles). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Considerable evidence suggests that up through the late eighteenth century there is neither the evidence of, nor the preconditions for, the rise of centralized polities in the Eastern Cape and, in fact, throughout much of what would become South Africa. A couple of weeks before the congress, Gail Willett and Vicki Solomon, two of my colleagues from the Cambridge Public Library, and my husband David Nelson and I spent time visiting the Melani School Cluster, elementary schools in a very rural section of the province of the Eastern Cape, about seven hundred miles from Cape Town. The industry is pushing for the development of new plantations in the Eastern Cape, an area which has the least amount of water-shortage problems, has the most open land available for planting, has appropriate soils and climate, and is in need of human development and employment. |
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