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Bathurst | |
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 The Big Pineapple, located on the edge of town | |
  Bathurst  Bathurst | |
| Coordinates: 33°30′14″S 26°49′26″E / 33.50389°S 26.82389°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Eastern Cape |
| District | Sarah Baartman |
| Municipality | Ndlambe |
| Established | 1820[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 73.5 km2 (28.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[2] | |
| • Total | 6,368 |
| • Density | 87/km2 (220/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 90.0% |
| • Coloured | 1.6% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.2% |
| • White | 7.9% |
| • Other | 0.4% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Xhosa | 84.4% |
| • English | 9.1% |
| • Afrikaans | 3.8% |
| • Other | 2.7% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 6166 |
| PO box | 6166 |
| Area code | 046 |
Bathurst is about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) inland from Port Alfred, on the R67 road, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, and is named after Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonies by Sir Rufane Donkin.[3] Its chief claim to fame is that it was the early administrative centre established by the British Government for the 1820 British Settlers who were sent to the district as a buffer between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa pastoralists who were migrating southwards and westwards along the coast. Bathurst is now part of the Ndlambe Local Municipality in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality of the Eastern Cape.
- ^ Robson, Linda Gillian (2011). "Annexure A" (PDF). The Royal Engineers and settlement planning in the Cape Colony 1806–1872: Approach, methodology and impact (PhD thesis). University of Pretoria. pp. xlv–lii. hdl:2263/26503.
- ^ a b c d Sum of the Main Places Bathurst and Nolukhanyo from Census 2011.
- ^ Raper, P. E. (1989). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-947464-04-2 – via Internet Archive.