Identity area
Type of entity
Governmental body
Authorized form of name
Town Clerk, Municipality Upington
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- 3/UPT
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Contact area
Description area
Dates of existence
1889 - 1976
History
The Village Management Board of Upington was constituted on 14 August 1889 in terms of British Bechuanaland Proclamation No 69.
The Municipality of Upington was constituted on 13 December 1898 in terms of Proclamation No 345, 1898 under provision of the Municipal Act, 1882 (Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette No 8084, 13 December 1898).
In 1994 Upington became part of the Northern Cape Province. It forms part of the Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality, one of six local municipalities that falls under the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality.
Places
Northern Cape.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
British Bechuanaland.
Upington.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
British Bechuanaland.
Upington.
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/UPT
Institution identifier
KAB
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
31 March 2022 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette.