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Hartbeespoort is the collective name of a few smaller towns situated around the Hartbeespoort Dam, including the towns of Meerhof, Ifafi, Melodie, Schoemansville and Kosmos. The town consists of holiday homes and permanent residences around the dam as it is popular with visitors from nearby Gauteng Province .
The municipal council consists of eighty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Forty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in forty-one wards, while the remaining forty-one are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
At this point the Magaliesberg range is displaced about 1 kilometre south by faulting and erosion. [3] Kosmos lies on the south, steep side of the monocline, and at its north eastern end, where the Crocodile River passes through the Dam, the cliffs become too steep to allow buildings or a road.
Hartbeespoort Dam (also known as Harties) is an arch type dam situated in the North West Province of South Africa. It lies in a valley to the south of the Magaliesberg mountain range and north of the Witwatersberg mountain range, about 35 kilometres north west of Johannesburg and 20 kilometres west of Pretoria .
Its western origin is a junction with the R511 road in Hartbeespoort, North West, just north of the town centre.Heading east, it crosses into Gauteng and enters Pretoria in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality as Van Der Hoff Road.
A little village began to develop around the main road on the southern side of the station, which later became known as Tom Street. Unfortunately no proper city planning was done and this area had no access to running water. A businessman by the name of Louis Karovsky, bought the part of Hendrik Christiaan Brits' farm to the north of the rail road.
Embraced by the warm, crystalline waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, just off the west coast of Italy’s Tuscan shoreline, Isola d’Elba is Italy’s lettera d'amore to the Mediterranean sun and sea.
At the R560 interchange, the R512 turned towards the north-east, bypassing Kosmos Village, to reach a 4-way junction in the suburb of Damdoryn (west of the Hartbeespoort Dam wall), where it turned to the west to be co-signed with the R104.