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Mr Louis Koch - Chief Director of the Eastern Cape Administrative Board (text)

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“Mr Louis Koch - Chief Director of the Eastern Cape Administrative Board (text)”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 29 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/11267

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A series of photographs showing views of forced removal of communities from Klipfontein farm, near Kenton-on-sea, and other areas, to Glenmore in 1979. These photographs were accumulated by Ben Maclennan when he worked as a journalist for Eastern Province Herald, covering the move, and when he wrote the book "Glenmore : the story of a forced removal. This photograph showing a transcript: "Mr Louis Koch, Chief Director of the East Cape Administration Board, stands beside the 500 wood-frame houses comprising the temporary scheme at the Glenmore site on the Fish River" Photograph reprinted by Everet Smith on 12 April 1979
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Image
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jpg
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/22186
Location - Physical Location
Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.
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Provenance
Klipfontein - Glenmore Forced Removal Collection
Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator
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Copryright. Image made available for research and educational purposes only.

“Mr Louis Koch - Chief Director of the Eastern Cape Administrative Board (text)”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 29 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/11267

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