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Cradock, South Africa

Cradock, officially Nxuba, is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, in the upper valley of the Great Fish River, 250 kilometres (160 mi) by road northeast of Port Elizabeth. The town is the administrative seat of the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape.

Cradock

1816[1]

118.57 km2 (45.78 sq mi)

8,626

73/km2 (190/sq mi)

50.0%

30.5%

17.9%

0.9%

0.7%

68.8%

20.0%

7.9%

2.3%

5880
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The town is named after John Cradock, governor of the Cape Colony in early 19th century and commander of the forces.[3]

Victoria Cross recipient

William Faulds

General , Boer general and Assistant Commandant of the Forces of the Orange Free State and Commander-in-Chief of the Boer Rebel Forces in the Cape Colony during the Second Boer War

Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger

lawyer and plant collector

Douglas Gilfillan

author and human rights activist

Olive Schreiner

author and poet

Guy Butler

author and poet

Etienne van Heerden

author

Neville Alexander

cleric and activist

James Arthur Calata

anti-apartheid activist

Mary Ngalo

cricket umpire

Clifford Isaacs

cartoonist

T. O. Honiball

diamond tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer

Abe Bailey

rugby player

Baby Michau

mining magnate

Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet

rugby player

Paul Schoeman

cricketer

Harry Smith

rugby player

Joshua Stander

rugby player

Deon Stegmann

poet and writer

George Weideman

athlete

Leigh Julius

Samantha Stander, author, poet and differently abled athlete[10][11][12]

[9]

Beer Hall Boycott

The Cradock Four

Cradock South Africa Guide

Cradock history and other information

Panoramas of Cradock and further information on the area

The Cradock Four Memorial

About Cradock

, ed. (1911). "Cradock" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 360.

Chisholm, Hugh