Wegdraai

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Wegdraai
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Wegdraai
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Wegdraai
Coordinates: 28°50′17″S21°51′54″E / 28.838°S 21.865°E / -28.838; 21.865 Coordinates: 28°50′17″S21°51′54″E / 28.838°S 21.865°E / -28.838; 21.865
Country South Africa
Province Northern Cape
District ZF Mgcawu
Municipality !Kheis
Area
[1]
  Total2.70 km2 (1.04 sq mi)
Population
(2011) [1]
  Total2,189
  Density810/km2 (2,100/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
   Black African 3.0%
   Coloured 96.3%
   Indian/Asian 0.4%
   White 0.4%
First languages (2011)
[1]
   Afrikaans 98.7%
  Other1.3%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
8826
PO box
8826

Wegdraai is a town in ZF Mgcawu District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

ZF Mgcawu District Municipality District municipality in Northern Cape, South Africa

The ZF Mgcawu District Municipality is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of ZF Mgcawu is Upington. The majority (76%) of its 236,783 people speak Afrikaans. The district code is DC8.

Northern Cape Province of South Africa

The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, an international park shared with Botswana. It also includes the Augrabies Falls and the diamond mining regions in Kimberley and Alexander Bay. The Namaqualand region in the west is famous for its Namaqualand daisies. The southern towns of De Aar and Colesberg, in the Great Karoo, are major transport nodes between Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. In the northeast, Kuruman is known as a mission station and also for its artesian spring, the Eye of Kuruman. The Orange River flows through the province, forming the borders with the Free State in the southeast and with Namibia to the northwest. The river is also used to irrigate the many vineyards in the arid region near Upington.

South Africa Republic in the southernmost part of Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini (Swaziland); and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho. South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa and the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and, with over 57 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different African languages, nine of which have official status. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (White), Asian (Indian), and multiracial (Coloured) ancestry.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Main Place Wegdraai". Census 2011.