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Qonce, formerly known as King William's Town, is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa along the banks of the Buffalo River. The town is about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northwest of the Indian Ocean port of East London .
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Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0. Ginsberg is a township on the west bank of the Buffalo River that is next to King William's Town, in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Ginsberg is situated 9 km southeast of KwaMdingi.
King William’s Town, town, Eastern Cape province, South Africa, west of East London. Founded as a missionary station in 1826, King William’s Town later (after 1835) served as a military headquarters for British Kaffraria and as a centre for German settlement before officially becoming a town in.
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Qonce (formerly King William's Town) is a town of 35,000 people (2011) in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The town is the birthplace of Steve Biko the famous anti-Apartheid activist who died in police custody.
Ginsberg is a township on the west bank of the Buffalo River that is next to King William's Town, in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. King William's Town Type: Town with 93,100 residents
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King William’s Town on the Buffalo River, 55 km north-west of East London. Founded in 1835 on the site of a mission station established in 1825, it became the headquarters of the Province of Queen Adelaide, and in 1847 the capital city of British Kaffraria.
