Olifantskop Pass | |
Location: | Between Paterson and Cookhouse |
Coords: | -33.3188°N 25.9465°W |
Elevation: | 723 m.a.s.l. |
Range: | Suurberge |
Length Km: | 9.658 |
Olifantskop Pass is situated in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It carries three to four lanes of road traffic on the N10 national road over the Suurberg mountains between Paterson and Cookhouse.
Prior to the construction of Olifantskop Pass in 1955, the Suurberg Pass was the main route from Gqeberha to Johannesburg for 100 years.[1]
On 27 June 1985, anti-apartheid activist Sicelo Mhlauli of The Cradock Four was arrested at a roadblock on the pass.[2]