Uitenhage

Province

Uitenhage ( Afrikaans: [ øjtənhɑ xə ː ] ) is a town in the Eastern Cape near Port Elizabeth in South Africa with 103 639 inhabitants ( as of 2011). In Uitenhage is a Volkswagen plant, which is the largest car factory in the whole of Africa with 5600 workers.

Uitenhage was founded on April 25, 1804 by Jacob Glen Cuyler magistrates. The governor of the Cape Colony, Jan Willem Janssens, gave the city its name after the High Commissioner Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist. Uitenhage was then a part of the district of Graaff -Reinet and in 1877 a church.

In 1994, the city was summarized, among others, Port Elizabeth in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.

Uitenhage is often referred to simply by the Afrikaners as the Baai and English-speaking South Africans as The Bay.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Enoch Sontonga ( 1872/73-1905 ), composer of the song Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika of being a part of the South African National Anthem today
• Allan Hendrickse (1927-2005), politician, teacher and preacher
• Christo van Rensburg (born 1962 ), tennis player
• Okkert Brits (born 1973 ), pole vaulter

Others

• In Uitenhage in the second half of the 19th century, the chacma baboon assistant Jack was a disabled track guard.