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Grahamstown

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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.


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ACE dance and music has been invited to perform its show Skin at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
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.
When Microbiology Master's student and avid beekeeper, Garth Cambray, and Winston Leukes, his biotechnology lecturer at Rhodes University at Grahamstown in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, put two and two together and tried the honey brew themselves, they spotted the opportunity of creating a honey-based mead industry.
 
 
 
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