Alice
Municipality
Municipality: Nkonkobe Local Municipality
District Municipality: Amatole District Municipality
Name
Alice is named after Princess Alice, daughter of the British Queen Victoria.
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History
The location was named Lovedale by European missionaries who settled
there in 1824. It was named after Dr John Love of the Glasgow Missionary Society.
During the Frontier War it was abandoned and the mission resettled on the
west bank of the Tyumi River. On the east bank a fort was built, called Fort
Hare, after Major-General John Hare, who was acting Lieutenant-Governor of
the Eastern Cape. Alice was the administrative and magisterial capital of
the old district of Victoria East.
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