Elliot, officially known as Khowa, is a town in
Chris Hani District Municipality
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in the
Eastern Cape
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The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in ...
province of
South Africa
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, and lies 80 km south-west of
Maclear and 65 km south-east of
Barkly East
Barkly East is a town in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, seat of the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, and 117 km by road E.S.E. of Aliwal North, lying in the mountainous area just south of Lesotho. The town lies at the southern tip of t ...
on the
R56 road.
History
Originally the village was established in 1885 and known as
Slang River,
and in April 1894 was renamed Elliot, becoming a municipality in 1911. Named after Sir
Henry George Elliot (1826-1912), Chief Magistrate of the
Transkeian territories from 1891 to 1902. It was renamed Khowa in 2017.
People born in Khowa
*
Mark Andrews (rugby player)
*
Os du Randt (rugby player)
References
Populated places in the Sakhisizwe Local Municipality
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