LANGA MEMORIAL (Manduna Road, Langa Township, Uitenhage) marks the spot where police shot and killed 36 people, including teenagers, marching to KwaNobuhle in 1985 to commemorate the 1960 Sharpeville massacre. The brutal killings of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre were once again experienced by the people of Uitenhage. The Langa Memorial is erected in honour and memory of those people who lost their lives in pursuit of a better and free democratic South Africa.

EMLOTHENI MEMORIAL PARK (corner of Limba Street and Nqadini Street in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth) On the 6th of November, 1964, the apartheid regime executed six combatants of Umkhonto we Sizwe. These were Vuyisile Mini, Wilson Kayingo, Zinakile Mkaba, Nolali Mpentse, Daniel Ndongeni and Samuel Jonas. The Emlotheni Memorial Site is known to have been a meeting ground for the African National Congress in the 1950s and 1960s. This heritage site is now a resting place of these freedom fighters.

Bethelsdorp Heritage Site (Church Street, Bethelsdorp, Bethelsdorp Development Trust. Tel: 041 481 9777). Bethelsdorp was established in 1803 by Dr Johannes Van Der Kemp and was the first organised non-military settlement in the Algoa Bay area. He was sent by the London Missionary Society and built a permanent settlement to fulfil his missionary work. These include the Church, first built in 1803; the market square with the Mission Bell, erected in 1815; a square stone house, named David Livingstone Cottage; and a row of Almshouses built in 1822.

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