Coega Development Corporation

The name Coega is of Khoekhoen origin from the river of the same name and means ’ground water’.
Coega is pronounced ’koo-gha’ with a guttural sound forming the last syllable.
Several spellings exist for Coega. These include Ngqura, the Xhosa* spelling which is the name used for the adjacent deepwater port of Ngqura.
To pronounce Ngqura correctly, requires an ability to sound the click as used in the Xhosa language. To successfully achieve this, will likely require of you to travel to this most spectacular part of South Africa, where you are welcome to ask one of the many friendly Xhosa people to instruct you.

Of course, there are so many other reasons to visit Coega as well, which will become more and more apparent as you travel through other parts of this website.

Khoekhoen ’people people’ or ’real people’ the name the aboriginal herders of the Cape would have called themselves.

*Xhosa. The people of the Xhosa Tribe of South Africa have a very rich cultural heritage and have played an important part in the development of South Africa, especially when the most famous member of the Xhosa, Nelson Mandela, became South Africa’s first president elected in a democratic election in 1994.

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