Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn: mercantile selfinterest and the communication debate of the later 19th century.
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Goetze, Tim
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Departement van Geskiedenis Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit / Department of History Rand Afrikaans University
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• Opsomming:
Teen 1882 het die spoorlynverbinding wat in
Kaapstad, Port Elizabeth en Oos-Londen begin is,
Gestrek tot by Beaufort W es, Graaff-Reinet, Cradock
en Queenstown onderskeidelik. Die uiteindelike
doelwit was om die binneland met die hawens te
verbind. Kleiner hawens soos Port Alfred en
Mosselbaai het alles in die stryd gewerp om deel van
die spoorlyn ontwikkeling te wees. Dit was veral
Mosselbaai as klein hawe en vanweë sy geografiese
ligging, wat agterweë gelaat is. Oudtshoorn,
daarenteen, het dit duidelik gestel dat dit meer
lewensvatbaar is om Mosselbaai nie in die Suidelike
Kaapse Streek in te sluit me. Dit het hewige
teenkanting van Mosselbaai tot gevolg gehad.
• Summary: By 1882 the railway lines being built from Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East London had reached Beaufort West, Graaff-Reinet and Cradock, and Queenstown respectively. The obvious intention was to bridge the interior and these ports. The lesser ports of Port Alfred and Mossel Bay fought to become part of this greater railway development. Mossel Bay in particular however was left suckling the hind teat. When it became apparent to Oudtshoorn that it would be more feasible and possibly viable to make an area, instead of a Southern Cape regional, bid, she largely cut Mossel Bay adrift, this to the chagrin of her southern neighbourly port.
• Summary: By 1882 the railway lines being built from Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East London had reached Beaufort West, Graaff-Reinet and Cradock, and Queenstown respectively. The obvious intention was to bridge the interior and these ports. The lesser ports of Port Alfred and Mossel Bay fought to become part of this greater railway development. Mossel Bay in particular however was left suckling the hind teat. When it became apparent to Oudtshoorn that it would be more feasible and possibly viable to make an area, instead of a Southern Cape regional, bid, she largely cut Mossel Bay adrift, this to the chagrin of her southern neighbourly port.
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Goetze, T. 1995. Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn: mercantile selfinterest and the communication debate of the later 19th century. Contree : Tydskrif vir Suid-Afrikaanse stedelike streekgeskiedenis = Contree : Journal for South African urban and regional history. 37:10-17, Jun. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4968]