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Joubertina is a small town in the Kou-Kamma Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Joubertina
Joubertina
Joubertina
Joubertina
Coordinates: 33°49′30″S 23°51′28″E
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceEastern Cape
DistrictSarah Baartman
MunicipalityKou-Kamma
Area
  Total8.20 km2 (3.17 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
  Total5,752
  Density700/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
  Black African16.8%
  Coloured73.5%
  Indian/Asian0.3%
  White9.0%
  Other0.5%
First languages (2011)
  Afrikaans87.6%
  Xhosa6.4%
  English3.2%
  Other2.9%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
6410
PO box
6410
Area code042

Description


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.


References


  1. "Main Place Joubertina". Census 2011.
  2. "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 232.






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