Potchefstroom, colloquially known as Potch, is an academic city in the North West Province of South Africa. It hosts the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University. Potchefstroom is on the Mooirivier, roughly 120 km (75 mi) west-southwest of Johannesburg and 45 km (28 mi) east-northeast of Klerksdorp.
The Golden Lions are a South African professional rugby union team based in Johannesburg who compete in the annual Currie Cup and Rugby Challenge.
Jacob Daniël du Toit, better known by his pen name Totius, was an Afrikaner poet.
The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education was a South African university located in Potchefstroom. Instruction was mainly in Afrikaans. In 2004, the university was merged with other institutions to create the North-West University.
Allister Coetzee is a South African rugby union coach and former player, currently in charge of the Namibian national team. He served as the head coach of the South African national team from April 2016 to February 2018.
Theuns Eloff is a South African, who is the ex-Executive Director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, an ex-Rector and an ex-Reconciler.
Tjaart Marais was a South African rugby fly-half and still played in the era when rugby was an amateur sport.
Ockert Potgieter was a South African missionary in Ukraine and a film director.
Jan Kamp - a Dutch immigrant to South Africa, was a journalist in the Netherlands and South Africa. He was a teacher at various schools and later a university professor in literature. In his later years he became a writer and a promoter of the Afrikaans language.
Ferdinand Postma was the first rector of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Johannes Cornelis (Joon) van Rooy was Rector of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and Chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond.
Ntate Daniel Kgwadi was a South African academic administrator who served as the vice-chancellor of Vaal University of Technology and as the vice-chancellor and previous rector of the North-West University in South Africa.
Lodewicus Johannes du Plessis (1897-1968) was a South African academic, alternative Afrikaner political philosopher, and Calvinist.
Johannes Christiaan Coetzee was Rector of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and an academic in education.
Johan Hendrik Greijbe was an Afrikaans educationist and chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond.
Justus Cornelias Dirks (1911-2001) was a writer from South Africa.
Pieter Willem Vorster was a South African agronomist and chancellor of The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.
Hoër Volkskool Potchefstroom, colloquially known as Potch Volkies, is a public high school located in Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa.
The Burgersdorp Reformed Church is the oldest congregation of the Reformed Churches in South Africa, formerly the Cape Province. It was founded on 21 January 1860, about 11 months after the Church's foundation in Rustenburg on 11 February 1859.
The Steynsburg Reformed Church is the oldest congregation of the Reformed Churches in South Africa in the North Eastern Cape town of Steynsburg, which was founded by the church council and after elder A.P.J. Steyn was named because he took the lead in founding the congregation. Because of the congregation's zeal for education, it took an important place in the Reformed church association, especially during the first almost 80 years of its existence until around 1950. A school with 100 learners was opened here in 1875 and in 1905 a school for Christian national education from which a teaching college developed.
