Jamestown is a town on the N6 national road between Aliwal North and Queenstown

Queenstown, Eastern Cape

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 in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality (previously Ukhahlamba), Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape

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, South Africa

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. It is at the centre of a fertile sheep-, cattle- and wheat-farming area and was the terminus of a branch railway line from Molteno

Molteno, Eastern Cape

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. It was named after James Wagenaar, original owner of the farm on which the town was laid out.

Noteworthy people associated with Jamestown

• Alexander James Kidwell, referred to as the 'Father of Jamestown', a merchant, Special Justice of the Peace, and Methodist preacher. The sandstone Kidwell Memorial Church in the main street was named in his memory, as is the adjacent Kidwell Street. His grandparents - Alexander Kidwell and Phebe Tubb - were 1820 settlers.
• H. B. Thom
  H. B. Thom
  Hendrik Bernardus Thom was born in Jamestown, Eastern Cape, and grew up in Burgersdorp, South Africa...
  
   - Rector and later Chancellor of Stellenbosch University
  Stellenbosch University
  Stellenbosch University is a public research university situated in the town of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Other nearby universities are the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape....
  
  , born in Jamestown.
• Hennie Aucamp
  Hennie Aucamp
  Hennie Aucamp is an Afrikaans poet, short story writer, cabaretist and academic. He grew up on a farm in the Stormberg highlands and matriculated in Jamestown before continuing his higher education at the University of Stellenbosch...
  
   - Afrikaans poet, writer, cabaretist and academic, educated and matriculated in Jamestown.