Ngcobo, Eastern Cape
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Ngcobo is a town in the Eastern Cape
province of South Africa
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Ngcobo has the status of a local municipality
within the Chris Hani District Municipality
of the Eastern Cape.
Ngcobo was situated in the former Bantustan of Transkei
.
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
province of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
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Ngcobo has the status of a local municipality
Local municipality (South Africa)
In South Africa, a local municipality or Category B municipality is a type of municipality that serves as the third, and most local, tier of local government...
within the Chris Hani District Municipality
Chris Hani District Municipality
Chris Hani is one of the 7 districts of Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Chris Hani is Queenstown. The majority of its 810 274 people speak Xhosa , although Afrikaans speaking people predominate in the far west of the district...
of the Eastern Cape.
Ngcobo was situated in the former Bantustan of Transkei
Transkei
The Transkei , officially the Republic of Transkei , was a Bantustan—an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity—and nominal parliamentary democracy in the southeastern region of South Africa...
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