Joubertina

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Joubertina
Coordinates: 33°49′30″S23°51′28″E / 33.82500°S 23.85778°E / -33.82500; 23.85778 Coordinates: 33°49′30″S23°51′28″E / 33.82500°S 23.85778°E / -33.82500; 23.85778
Country South Africa
Province Eastern Cape
District Sarah Baartman
Municipality Kou-Kamma
Area
[1]
  Total8.20 km2 (3.17 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [1]
  Total5,752
  Density700/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
   Black African 16.8%
   Coloured 73.5%
   Indian/Asian 0.3%
   White 9.0%
  Other0.5%
First languages (2011)
[1]
   Afrikaans 87.6%
   Xhosa 6.4%
   English 3.2%
  Other2.9%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
6410
PO box
6410
Area code 042

Joubertina is a small town in the Kou-Kamma Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Description

Town on the Wabooms River in the Langkloof, some 50 km north-west of Assegaaibos, 70 km south-east of Avontuur and 213 km from Port Elizabeth. Joubertina was founded and introduced into the Langkloof community in 1907. Having secured a portion of the farm Onzer, in between the villages of Krakeel and Twee Riviere (both founded in 1765), a property development was launched there under the initiative of the Dutch Reformed Church. As the sale of erven around a newly erected church building gradually got underway in 1907, the future town was named in honour of W A Joubert, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Uniondale between 1878 and 1893. [2]

Joubertina is located on the R62 road in the Langkloof valley, approximately 5 km west of Twee Riviere, near the western extreme of the Eastern Cape.

The town has a station on the narrow gauge Avontuur Railway.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Main Place Joubertina". Census 2011.
  2. "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 232.