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Grahamstown, city (1991 pop. 19,783), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa. It manufactures pottery and is the commercial center for a rich agricultural region. Founded in 1819 as a military post on Xhosa land, the Grahamstown area was the site of repeated conflict in the early 19th cent. Rhodes Univ. (1904) and the Albany Museum, with collections of prehistoric and natural history materials, are in the city. 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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Grahamstown has set up programs to deal with the pandemic, among them, Anglicans Living with AIDS, where every parish hall has become a centre for counseling, testing and education. buttons pass for money; the colour of the beads is regulated by the prevailing fashion, which is as much attended to here as at Paris; so that many traders at Grahamstown have suffered considerable loss by not having them of the fashionable colour. Andrew Gleeson, an Australian academic, has lived in Grahamstown, South Africa, for the last two years. |
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