Eastern Cape, DUTYWA, Main cemetery (5)

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Cemetery information:- Dutywa (formerly Idutywa) is a town in Mbashe Local Municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa, that was founded in 1858 as a military fort. The settlement was laid out in 1884 and was made a municipality in 1913. It is named after the Dutywa River, a tributary of the Mbhashe River. The name means "place of disorder" in the Xhosa language; its spelling was officially changed from "Idutywa" to "Dutywa" on 16 July 2004. Album incomplete. The cemetery is still in use, although most graves were photographed in 2021. eGGSA captions by: Eleanor Garvie, Riana le Roux & James Anderson The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information on the cemetery location. Cemetery ID: 5650 Google Earth Cemetery Initiative Information:- GPSID: 6760 GPS: -32 05.911, 28 18.799