Ventersdorp
Sign in to saveVentersdorp is a town of about 4,200 people in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. It was the seat of the defunct Ventersdorp Local Municipality until 2016.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ventersdorp
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ventersdorp, North West, South Africa (20539741091).jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa North West#South Africa#Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North West
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Dr Kenneth Kaunda
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- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- JB Marks
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- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1866
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 53.88
- Settlement.population_total
- 4204
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Ventersdorp Local Municipality
- Elevation
- 1526
- Capital of
- Ventersdorp Local Municipality
- Shares border with
- Hartbeesfontein
- Image
- Ventersdorp, North West, South Africa (20539741091).jpg
- Dialing code
- 018
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- inception
- 1866-01-01
- postal code
- 2710
- Commons category
- Ventersdorp
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Racial tensions
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Ventersdorp is a town of about 4,200 people in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. It was the seat of the defunct Ventersdorp Local Municipality until 2016.
Ventersdorp is centrally located, making it easier to access more prominent urban towns such as Klerksdorp, Lichtenburg, Potchefstroom and Rustenburg. The township (or Location) of Tshing houses most of the town's blacks and coloureds. Tshing has a diamond mine nearby that was owned by a town councillor in the early 1990s. Tshing Location has one high school: Thuto Boswa High School. The smaller township Toevlug has Coloured residents, some of whom have attend the former whites-only Afrikaans High School after the end of Apartheid since 1995.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ventersdorp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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