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Qonce, formerly King William's Town, [3] 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. It has a population of around 35,000 inhabitants and forms part of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality.
The King William's Town Nature Reserve is a protected area in Qonce (King William's Town) in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is located on the R63 road and is administered by Eastern Cape Parks. [1]
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British Kaffraria was a British colony/subordinate administrative entity in present-day South Africa, consisting of the districts now known as Qonce (King William's Town) and East London. It was also called Queen Adelaide's Province and, unofficially, British Kaffiria and Kaffirland.
Zwelitsha was created in 1947 as corridor township to King William's Town to provide labour for the Good Hope Textile Factory of the Da Gama Group, South Africa. As a vestige of the liberal United Party government it had "middle class" pretensions in terms of neat schools, clinics, shopping centers, dairy, inhouse plumbing, bathrooms and toilets.
It heads south-south-west through Braunschweig to King William's Town (Qonce), where it enters as Alexander Avenue and meets the N2 and the R63 at the four-way junction with Maitland Road. All three routes join to become the road westwards (Grey Street) up to the Buffalo Road junction, where the N2 & R63 become Buffalo Road northwards while the ...
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The N2 freeway skirts Mdantsane to the north leading eastwards to East London and westwards to Qonce (King Williams Town). The R102 regional route which was the historic main road between Qonce and East London prior to the construction of the N2 leads eastwards to East London and westwards to Ntabozuko (Berlin) and Qonce.