Plooysburg

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Plooysburg
Plooysburg
Plooysburg
Plooysburg is located in Northern Cape
Plooysburg
Plooysburg
 Plooysburg shown within Northern Cape
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Country South Africa
Province Northern Cape
District Pixley ka Seme
Municipality Siyancuma
Established {{#property:P571}}
Population [1]
 • Total 594
PO box 8350
Area code 053

Plooysburg is a small town about 70 km west of Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. It is situated close to the Riet River. With a church, school, police station and shop it serves a local farming and farm-worker community. Nearby is the rock art site of Driekops Eiland, and the Mokala National Park.[2]

References

  1. Water Services National Information System - Community Report
  2. Morris, D. 2002. Driekopseiland and 'the rain's magic power': landscape and history in a new interpretation of a Northern Cape rock engraving site. MA dissertation, Dept Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape

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