Duncan Village
Duncan Village is a township in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Duncan Village is a township in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The township is located about five kilometres away from the East London central business district (CBD). Duncan Village is divided into six wards, with each headed by a ward councillor. There are no clear divisions between the informal and formal parts of the township since most shacks are planted on the open spaces within formal houses.
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Worth seeing in and around Duncan Village
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Potter's Pass
Potter's Pass, is situated in the Eastern Cape, province of South Africa, near East London. It is on the East London Grand Prix Circuit and is known for having one of the fastest and most challenging curves in South African motorsport.
3 km · mountain pass in Eastern Cape, South Africa · Wikipedia
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Getting to Duncan Village
- Airports
- King Phalo (ELS), 4 km · Chief Dawid Stuurman (PLZ), 234 km
- Stations
- East London Airport, 3.9 km
- Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) → Duncan Village234 km · quickest by road, 4h 35m · R260–345
- Bloemfontein → Duncan Village460 km · quickest by road, 8h 19m · R495–660
- Durban → Duncan Village462 km · quickest by air, 6h 58m · R1,290–2,000
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Duncan Village
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Duncan Village. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inon the corner of Buffalo and College streets are Minibus taxis going to port Elizabeth for R100.
From Wikivoyage: East London, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Duncan Village
Duncan Village is 5 km from East London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipalitymetropolitan municipality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa3.8 km