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Northern Cape districts and local municipalities Sign along R354 welcoming motorists into the Northern Cape from the Western Cape. The sign is in Afrikaans (top left), English (bottom left), Tswana (top right), and Xhosa (bottom right) The Northern Cape Province is divided into five district municipalities.
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The town of Kuruman is situated 221 km north-west of Kimberley. Moffat’s Church stands in the grounds of the Seodin School 5 km north of the town. At the beginning of the 19th century Type of site: Church Current use: Church. One of the most important historical sites in the Northern Cape. Robert Moffat preached at the church. Kuruman: Kuruman
Orania (Afrikaans pronunciation: [uəˈrɑːnia]) is a white separatist [4] [5] South African town founded by Afrikaners. [6] It is located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape province. [7]
Vryburg and Mafikeng, in the north eastern extremity of the former Cape Province - and hence regarded as part of the pre-1994 "Northern Cape" - are excluded, being part, now, of the North West Province in the North. A History of the Northern Cape, properly speaking, would cover this recent period only. The different regional histories of the ...
Upington (Khoekhoe: ǁKhara hais) is a town founded in 1873 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River.The town was originally called Olijvenhoutsdrift ('Olive wood drift'), due to the abundance of olive wood trees [clarification needed] in the area, but later renamed after Sir Thomas Upington, Attorney-General and then Prime Minister of the Cape.
Some quasi-provincial infrastructure was in place from the 1940s, but in the post-1994 period Kimberley underwent considerable development as administrative departments were set up and housed for the governance of the new province. A Northern Cape Legislature was designed and situated to bridge the formerly divided city.