Enon | |
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  Enon  Enon | |
| Coordinates: 33°23′53″S 25°32′42″E / 33.398°S 25.545°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Eastern Cape |
| District | Sarah Baartman |
| Municipality | Sundays River Valley |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.4 km2 (0.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,160 |
| • Density | 1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 47.3% |
| • Coloured | 51.9% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.1% |
| • Other | 0.7% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Afrikaans | 52.1% |
| • Xhosa | 43.6% |
| • English | 1.5% |
| • Other | 2.8% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 6125 |
| PO box | 6125 |
Enon is a small town in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. It is named after the biblical place mentioned in John 3:23[2] It lies 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east of Kirkwood and 60 kilometres (37 mi) north-east of Uitenhage.
Enon (formerly known as Witterivier) was formed in 1818 by the Moravian Missionary Society on request of the Area Landdrost Jacob Glen Cuyler,[3] to serve as a buffer between the Xhosa, Tembu and Fingo tribes living outside the Cape Colony and the European farmers and towns inside the Cape Colony.[4] The land was granted to the Missionary Society in trust, to be administrated on behalf of the Cape Colony in the interests of residents of the missionary station.[5]
Within the first 35 years of its inception it was caught in the middle of three Cape Frontier Wars and the First Anglo-Boer War,[6] and has been evacuated on three separate occasions.[7][8][9]
Enon is referred to in the 1840s by James Backhouse in his diary.
In 1909 control of the town was ceded back to the Union of South Africa.[10] The governance of Enon currently falls under the Sundays River Valley Local Municipality.
- ^ a b c d Sum of the Main Places Enon and Barsheba Census 2011.
- ^ Raper 1989, p. 155.
- ^ Temmers 1987, p. 3.
- ^ de Boer & Temmers 1987, p. 3.
- ^ Temmers 1987, p. 6.
- ^ Temmers 1987, p. 23.
- ^ Temmers 1987, p. 8.
- ^ Temmers 1987, p. 10.
- ^ Temmers 1987, p. 51.
- ^ Temmers 1987, p. 16.