# Lady Frere > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lady_Frere > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lady_Frere.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Frere > Source revision: 1332596296 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Town in Emalahleni Municipality}} {{About|the renamed town, Lady Frere|the formerly named Cacadu District Municipality|Sarah Baartman District Municipality}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Lady Frere | other_name = Cacadu | pushpin_map = South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa#Africa | coordinates = {{coord|31.703|S|27.234|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = [Country](/source/Country) | subdivision_name = [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) | subdivision_type1 = [Province](/source/Provinces_of_South_Africa) | subdivision_name1 = [Eastern Cape](/source/Eastern_Cape) | subdivision_type2 = [District](/source/List_of_districts_of_South_Africa) | subdivision_name2 = [Chris Hani](/source/Chris_Hani_District_Municipality) | subdivision_type3 = [Municipality](/source/List_of_municipalities_of_South_Africa) | subdivision_name3 = [Emalahleni](/source/Emalahleni_Local_Municipality%2C_Eastern_Cape) | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = Sum of the Main Places [http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/283130 Lady Frere] and [http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/283131 Bhongolwethu] from Census 2011. | area_total_km2 = 22.1 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 4024 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = | demographics1_title1 = [Black African](/source/Bantu_peoples_of_South_Africa) | demographics1_info1 = 98.3% | demographics1_title2 = [Coloured](/source/Coloureds) | demographics1_info2 = 0.6% | demographics1_title3 = [Indian](/source/Indian_South_African)/[Asian](/source/Asian_South_African) | demographics1_info3 = 0.2% | demographics1_title4 = [White](/source/White_South_African) | demographics1_info4 = 0.1% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 0.6% | demographics_type2 = [First language](/source/First_language)s (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = | demographics2_title1 = [Xhosa](/source/Xhosa_language) | demographics2_info1 = 91.6% | demographics2_title2 = [English](/source/English_language) | demographics2_info2 = 4.1% | demographics2_title3 = | demographics2_info3 = | demographics2_title4 = | demographics2_info4 = | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 4.4% | timezone1 = [SAST](/source/South_African_Standard_Time) | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = [Postal code](/source/List_of_postal_codes_in_South_Africa) (street) | postal_code = 5410 | postal2_code_type = [PO box](/source/Post-office_box) | postal2_code = 5410 | area_code_type = [Area code](/source/Telephone_numbers_in_South_Africa) | area_code = 047 | official_name = }} '''Lady Frere''' (officially '''Cacadu''') is a small town in [Chris Hani District Municipality](/source/Chris_Hani_District_Municipality) in the [Eastern Cape](/source/Eastern_Cape) province of [South Africa](/source/South_Africa). The town was renamed to Cacadu in 2017 after changes to the country's colonial names.{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=11 November 2017|title=New names, but no signs say EC residents|work=SABC News|url=https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ec-residents-scorn-towns-old-names-signages/|access-date=1 February 2021}}{{Cite web |date=14 April 2024 |title=85 towns hit with name changes in South Africa – and more are on the way |url=https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/766851/85-towns-hit-with-name-changes-in-south-africa-and-more-on-the-way/ |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=BusinessTech}} Cacadu, meaning "bulrush water", is the Xhosa name for the White Kei River, which rises in the district. It is one of the largest rural parts in the former Transkei.{{Cite web |title=Cacadu District Municipality {{!}} South African History Online |url=https://sahistory.org.za/place/cacadu-district-municipality |access-date=2025-12-24 |website=sahistory.org.za |language=en}} == History == The town was established 1879,{{Cite book |last=Erasmus |first=B. P. J. |url=http://archive.org/details/onrouteinsouthaf0000eras |title=On Route in South Africa |publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers |others=Internet Archive |year=1995 |isbn=978-1-86842-026-1 |location=Johannesburg |pages=209}} and became a municipality in 1900.{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/standardencyclop0006unse |title=Standard Encyclopaedia of South Africa |publisher=Nasou |others=Internet Archive |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-625-00320-4 |volume=6 |location=Cape Town |pages=517}} The town was named after the wife of Sir Henry [Bartle Frere](/source/Bartle_Frere), governor of the [Cape Colony](/source/Cape_Colony) from 1877 to 1880.{{cite book|last=Raper|first=P. E. |title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names | url=https://archive.org/stream/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames/SaPlaceNames#page/n267/mode/2up|year=1989|publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers|isbn=978-0-947464-04-2|page=269|via=[Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Chris Hani District Municipality}} Category:Populated places in the Emalahleni Local Municipality, Eastern Cape {{EasternCape-geo-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lady Frere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Frere) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Frere?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.