Maclear, Eastern Cape
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Maclear is a small town in the Eastern Cape
province of South Africa
. It lies just north-east of Ugie. The land to the east and south was part of the former homeland of Transkei
. The town was founded in 1876 as Nqanqaru Drift but was later in 1882 renamed after Thomas Maclear
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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...
. It lies just north-east of Ugie. The land to the east and south was part of the former homeland 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...
. The town was founded in 1876 as Nqanqaru Drift but was later in 1882 renamed after Thomas Maclear
Thomas Maclear
Sir Thomas Maclear was an Irish-born South African astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope....
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