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unusual facts about Maclear, Eastern Cape



1972 UFO sightings in the eastern Cape

At 8:15 pm on 12 November four soldiers at the Rosmead military camp near Middelburg in the eastern Cape, observed a rotating set of red lights near their duty room, but these went out before they could investigate.

94.5 Kfm

The reception area includes the West Coast as far as Alexander Bay and parts of the Northern Cape and even as far the Eastern Cape.

Aloe ciliaris

The ancestral Tidmarshi subspecies remains restricted to the Albany thickets of the Eastern Cape, between Grahamstown and Uitenhage.

Aloe gracilis

Aside from the controversial Langeberg Rambling Aloe, this plant's closest relative is Aloe striatula, a larger and more robust climbing aloe that occurs further inland in the Eastern Cape mountains.

Aloe striatula

The unique Caesia variety of this species - found only around Molteno in the Eastern Cape - has milky-green leaves and bright yellow flowers.

Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester

He married firstly, in 1934, Moyra Joan, daughter of Douglas Crossley, and with her had two sons and one daughter (divorced, 1947); secondly, in Rhodesia in 1947, Vera Haigh (died 1984); thirdly, in 1985, Elizabeth Hope Johnstone, daughter of Clifford Arthur Johnstone, of Addo, Eastern Province, South Africa.

Bloukrans Bridge

The Bloukrans River below forms the border between the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces and is located in the Tsitsikamma region of the Garden Route.

Cape lechwe

The estimated southern limit of Cape Lechwe range within the Eastern Cape Province seems to have been the central plateau that is the South African Highveld, in the environs of Cradock and Tarkastad.

Carpobrotus deliciosus

This coastal strip extends along the whole of the Eastern Cape coast, but also extends into the Western Cape as far as Riversdale and into neighbouring Kwazulu-Natal.

Carpobrotus muirii

Of the other six Carpobrotus species which occur in South Africa, this species is particularly closely related to the larger Carpobrotus deliciosus, which occurs just to the east of its range, into the Eastern Cape.

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann

With the British reoccupation of the Cape, he settled at Plettenberg Bay in the Eastern Cape, collecting botanical specimens for Joseph Mackrill (1762-1820), a practitioner with a special interest in medicinal plants.

Elegia tectorum

E. tectorum is found in marshes and seeps on deep sand in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Elytropappus rhinocerotis

Although the Renosterveld Vegetation Type is confined to the South-Western Cape of South Africa, the Renosterbos plant is much more widespread - occurring throughout the Cape Floristic Region and further, as far east as Molteno in the Eastern Cape, and as far north as Namibia.

Empilisweni District Hospital

Empilisweni District Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital for the Senqu Local Municipality area in Sterkspruit, Eastern Cape in South Africa.

Gardenia thunbergia

It grows largely in forest or on forest margins, occurring in the Eastern Cape, Natal and Transkei in South Africa.

George Pemba

He won a Grey Scholarship, which enabled him to receive post primary education, and in 1931 he obtained a Teacher's Diploma at the Lovedale Training College in the Eastern Cape.

Giant golden mole

The giant golden mole (Chrysospalax trevelyani) is an endangered species of golden mole whose natural habit is the forests of Eastern Cape Province in South Africa.

Glen Grey Provincial Hospital

Glen Grey Provincial Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital for the Emalahleni Local Municipality area in Lady Frere, Eastern Cape in South Africa.

Henry Harold Welch Pearson

In 1907 he made a second attempt in the company of E. E. Galpin who had previously accompanied him on cycad-hunting trips to the Eastern Cape.

Ipomoea simplex

The Earl of Derby presented Kew Gardens with a "rounded uncouth-looking tuber" in 1844, having acquired it from the Eastern Cape, and all were completely unprepared for the beauty of its flowers that appeared in July of 1845.

Jasminum multipartitum

Starry Wild Jasmine is naturally found in the woodlands of the Eastern Cape and Kwazulu Natal, as well as inland as far as Johannesburg.

Maclear, Eastern Cape

The town was founded in 1876 as Nqanqaru Drift but was later in 1882 renamed after Thomas Maclear.

Maclear's rat

Maclear's rat may have been responsible for keeping the population of the Christmas Island red crab in check, as recent numbers of the crab are greater than in the past.

Madzikane Ka Zulu Memorial Hospital

Madzikane Ka Zulu Memorial Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital in Mount Frere in the Alfred Nzo District of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Nicholas Bhengu

Through his ministry a very large congregation was born in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and the rest of South Africa together with the neighboring countries.

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge

The two ministers had also released conflicting reports over the conditions of the maternity ward at Frere hospital, in the Eastern Cape province.

Ouma Rusks

The "Ouma Rusks" brand were developed in the 1939s in the Eastern Cape town of Molteno, where the effects of the Great Depression were causing hardship amongst the rural community.

Paranomus

The species occur mainly in mountainous areas of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces from the Cederberg to Uitenhage, with the highest numbers found in the districts of Caledon, Worcester and Swellendam.

Peninsula Ultra Fun Run

The route runs from Cape Point to Red Hill Pass, through the Simon's Town Water Catchment Area to Black Hill, via Ou Kaapse Weg across Fish Hoek Valley to Silvermine Nature Reserve, through Tokai Forest Plantation and the Vlakkenberg footpath to Constantia Nek, over Table Mountain to the summit at Maclear's Beacon (1,086 metres above sea level), then down Platteklip Gorge to Kloofnek, via Signal Hill to Granger Bay.

Pereskia aculeata

It can be controlled by Triclopyr or biological control with the leaf-feeding flea-beetle, Phenrica guérini, which has caused significant damage to Pereskia plants at Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa, but although the beetle was also released widely in KwaZulu-Natal, it has not become established there.

Phuthi language

Phuthi is spoken in dozens (perhaps many dozens) of scattered communities in the border areas between where the far northern Eastern Cape meets Lesotho: from Herschel northwards and eastwards, and in the Matatiele area of the northeastern Transkei; and throughout southern Lesotho, from Quthing in the southwest, through regions south and east of Mount Moorosi, to mountain villages west and north of Qacha (Qacha's Nek).

Psychotria capensis

Psychotria capensis (Eckl.) Vatke is a Southern African evergreen shrub or small tree occurring along the east coast from Knysna through the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Quthing

Quthing lies in the southern part of Lesotho and borders the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Rhabdomys

In mesic, grassland habitats (e.g. Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands; Wirminghaus & Perrin, 1993; Pretoria Highveld; Brooks, 1974; Zimbabwe grassland; Choate, 1972) and semi-succulent thorny scrub (e.g. Eastern Cape; Perrin, 1980a, b) animals are solitary, with females rearing their litters on their own, and both sexes maintain territories that overlap the territories of the opposite, but not the same, sex (Schradin & Pillay, 2005a).

Rharhabe

Their counterparts are the AmaGcaleka which are found on the Transkei section of the Eastern Cape.

Rod Snow

He went on to play professionally in South Africa for Eastern Province in 1995, before joining Newport RFC in 1996, the club he remained with until the 2002-03 season.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

Senecio tamoides

It is native to southern Africa where it occurs from the Eastern Cape to eastern Zimbabwe.

South African general election, 2004

The Inkatha Freedom Party lost some support, including the majority in their stronghold province of Kwazulu-Natal, while the United Democratic Movement also lost support, barely hanging on as opposition in their stronghold, the Eastern Cape.

SS Kaffraria

Kaffraria was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of what is today the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Sterkstroom Provincial Hospital

Sterkstroom Provincial Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital for the Inkwanca Local Municipality area in Sterkstroom, Eastern Cape in South Africa.

The Brother Moves On

Upon graduating from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, S. Mthembu left his former band, Orangutang Bitch, and moved back to Johannesburg.

The Road to Mecca

It was inspired by the story of Helen Martins who lived in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa and created The Owl House, now a provincial heritage site.

Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

The second was the boundary between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, where there was the large Umzimkhulu exclave of the Eastern Cape surrounded by KwaZulu-Natal, and the smaller Mount Currie exclave of KwaZulu-Natal surrounded by the Eastern Cape.


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