Joubertina is a small town in the Kou-Kamma Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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Coordinates: 33°49′30″S 23°51′28″E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Eastern Cape |
District | Sarah Baartman |
Municipality | Kou-Kamma |
Area | |
• Total | 8.20 km2 (3.17 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 5,752 |
• Density | 700/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 16.8% |
• Coloured | 73.5% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
• White | 9.0% |
• Other | 0.5% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Afrikaans | 87.6% |
• Xhosa | 6.4% |
• English | 3.2% |
• Other | 2.9% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Postal code (street) | 6410 |
PO box | 6410 |
Area code | 042 |
Town on the Wabooms River in the Langkloof, some 50 km north-west of Assegaaibos, 70 km south-east of Avontuur and 213 km from Port Elizabeth. Joubertina was founded and introduced into the Langkloof community in 1907. Having secured a portion of the farm Onzer, in between the villages of Krakeel and Twee Riviere (both founded in 1765), a property development was launched there under the initiative of the Dutch Reformed Church. As the sale of erven around a newly erected church building gradually got underway in 1907, the future town was named in honour of W A Joubert, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Uniondale between 1878 and 1893.[2]
Joubertina is located on the R62 road in the Langkloof valley, approximately 5 km west of Twee Riviere, near the western extreme of the Eastern Cape.
The town has a station on the narrow gauge Avontuur Railway.
Municipalities and communities of Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape | ||
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District seat: Port Elizabeth | ||
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