Olifantskop Pass () is situated in the

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province of

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. It carries three to four lanes of road traffic on the N10 national road over the

Suurberg The Suurberg (also Zuurberg or Suurberge) is a mountain range near the Addo Elephant National Park in the southern Sarah Baartman District Municipality of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The range of some 70 kilometres long (west to east) i ...

mountains between

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and

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History

Prior to the construction of Olifantskop Pass in 1955, the

Suurberg Pass Suurberg Pass () is traverses the Suurberg range in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, on the regional road R335, between Coerney and Somerset East. The pass hugs the western edge of the Nyati section of the Addo Elephant National P ...

was the main route from

Gqeberha Gqeberha ( , ), formerly named Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipa ...

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ...

for 100 years. On 27 June 1985, anti-apartheid activist

Sicelo Mhlauli Sicelo Mhlauli (25 May 1949 – 27 June 1985) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and one of the Cradock Four murdered by the South African police in 1985. Early life Sicelo Mhlauli was born on 25 May 1949 at Emagqomeni Location in Cr ...

of the Cradock Four was arrested at a roadblock on the pass.

References

Mountain passes of the Eastern Cape {{EasternCape-geo-stub

History

See also

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