Ill be in Port Elizabeth for the week attending a conference on institutional research. It will be a great opportunity to learn from the already established South African MI offices. Will be busy with work for the most part, but I hope to experience a little bit of the city and surrounding areas. Pictures should follow next week.
Port Elizabeth (English: Port Elizabeth; Xhosa: Ibhayi) is a city in South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province, at 33°57′29″S, 25°36′00″E. The city, often shortened to “PE”, and nicknamed “The Friendly City” or “The Windy City”, is located on Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South Africa.
Port Elizabeth was founded as a town in 1820 to house British settlers as a way of strengthening the border region between the Cape Colony and the warlike Xhosa tribe. It now has a population of 1 million and forms part of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. The city is in a friendship partnership with the Swedish City of Gothenburg and is a sister city to the American cities of Jacksonville, Florida and Palm Desert, California. Source
your photos from the last month are beautiful….:) it is nice to see them – WISH i was there now…the oceans look amazingly refreshing. Hello to you from New York.