Plooysburg

Plooysburg

Plooysburg
Plooysburg
Plooysburg
Plooysburg

 Plooysburg shown within Northern Cape

Coordinates: 29°01′S 24°14′E / 29.017°S 24.233°E / -29.017; 24.233Coordinates: 29°01′S 24°14′E / 29.017°S 24.233°E / -29.017; 24.233
Country South Africa
Province Northern Cape
District Pixley ka Seme
Municipality Siyancuma
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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