Swartkops (G 16)

Name: Swartkops

1752 - February 27: Sailors from the Nécessaire marooned about Humewood, happy valley, after attempting to find fresh water.
May 12-14: Ensign Beutler's Expedition in Port Elizabeth Area. Beacon erected at the mouth of the Swartkops river and Shark river
1755 - July 17: Wreck of the Doddington off Bird Island.
1756 - February 16: Doddington survivors sail for Delagoe Bay in ships they constructed from the wreckage.
1768 - October: J.W. Cloppenburg at Swartkops River.
1772-3 - Thunberg at Algoa Bay.
1775 - December: Sparrman in Eastern Cape, visits Swartkops saltpan.
1776 - Farms in area settled. Theunis Botha at Buffelsfontien. Thomas Ingnius Ferreira at Papenskuilsfontien. JohannesWilhelm van Staden at Coega.
November 16-18: Swellengrebel in neighbourhood of Algoa Bay.
1778 - January 15-20: Col. Robert Jacob Gordon in vicinity of present Port Elizabeth.
1779 - January: William Paterson at Swartkops River.

Source: http://www.pe.org.za/historicalfacts.html

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March 12 2010

Phelophepha health train has arrived in Nelson Mandela Bay to provide
much needed heath services to local communities. The Phelophepha will
be stationed at the Swartkops Train Station for the next three weeks.
The health train, run by Transnet together with educational and health
authorities as well as pharmaceutical companies, travels for nine
months every year, docking at 36 stations to provide health care
services, and working with local communities to extend primary health
care to the less fortunate. First introduced in 1994, it
provides dental, eye, primary health care and psychiatric care services
to hundreds of thousands of people across South Africa.

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