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Uitenhage was founded on 25 April 1804 by Landdrost (district magistrate) Jacob Glen Cuyler and named in honour of the Cape's Commissioner-General Jacob Abraham Uitenhage De Mist by the British Cape Colony governor, Jan Willem Janssens . Uitenhage formed from part of the district of Graaff Reinet (shortly after its shortlived secession)) and in 1877 it became a municipality. In 1994 it was incorporated with Port Elizabeth into the Nelson Mandela Metropole . Preacher-teacher-politician Allan Hendrickse and Olympic pole vaulter Okkert Brits were born here. The city of Port Elizabeth and the small town of Despatch are located near Uitenhage. |
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