Mhlangeni (also known as Hertzog) is a settlement in
Amathole District Municipality
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in the
Eastern Cape province of
South Africa
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Village in the
Kat River Valley, 7 km south-west of
Seymour and some 27 km north-east of
Fort Beaufort
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. Originally named Tamboekievlei, then in 1837, named after
Willem Frederik Hertzog (1792–1847), Assistant Surveyor-General of the
Cape Colony
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from 1828 and surveyor of the
Kat River Settlement
Kat or KAT may refer to:
People
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* Kat Ashley (c1502–1565), governess to Queen Elizabeth I
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It is now known as Mhlangeni.
References
Populated places in the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality
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