Identity area
Type of entity
Governmental body
Authorized form of name
Town Clerk, Municipality Burgersdorp
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- 3/BDP
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Contact area
Description area
Dates of existence
1874 – 1950
History
Burgersdorp was constituted a municipality by a proclamation of 5 March 1850 under the provisions of Ordinance No 9 of 1836. The municipality was originally administered by a municipal board of commissioners.
During a fire in the municipal offices at Burgersdorp in 1952 certain minute books, the series letters received and letters despatched, all financial statements and almost all correspondence until 1936 were destroyed. This accounts for the lacunae within the archives.
In 1994 Burgersdorp became part of the Eastern Cape Province. It forms part of the Walter Sisulu Local Municipality, one of three local municipalities that falls under the Joe Gqabi District Municipality.
Places
Eastern Cape.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
Burgersdorp.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
Burgersdorp.
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
3/BDP
Institution identifier
KAB
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
7 April 2022 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette.