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HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis are also ongoing issues in the region. In 2017, the Eastern Cape had a TB incidence of 839/100,000 people, which was higher than South Africa's estimated prevalence of 737/100,000. [28] Additionally, the Eastern Cape has a high overall HIV prevalence rate (25.2%) as of 2017. [29]
This is a list of cities and towns in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. In the case of settlements that have had their official names changed the traditional name is listed first followed by the new name.
The Eastern Cape province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into two metropolitan municipalities (Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay) and six district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into thirty-one local municipalities .
Gqeberha (English: / k ɛ ˈ b ɛər x ə / keb-AIR-khə, [3] Xhosa: [ᶢǃʱɛ̀ɓéːxà]), formerly known as Port Elizabeth and colloquially referred to as P.E., [a] is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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The Wild Coast is a section of the coast of the Eastern Cape, a province of South Africa. The region stretches from East London in the south to the border of KwaZulu-Natal in the north. It is the traditional home of the Xhosa , Thembu people , and the Mpondo people, and the birthplace of many prominent South Africans, including Nelson Mandela ...
Like the Boland region in Western Cape, Border does not have defined boundaries. The name of the region relates to the region once constituting the 'border' between the formerly Dutch and later British Cape Colony to the west, and the Xhosa Kingdom to the east, and was the site of a prolonged series of colonial wars from 1779 to 1879.
The Eastern Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa has jurisdiction over all cases arising in the province, but generally handles only the most serious or high-profile criminal trials, high-value civil trials, cases involving judicial review of legislation or executive actions, and appeals from the magistrates' courts.