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Windsorton is an agricultural town situated in the Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme on the banks of the Vaal River in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Windsorton | |
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  Windsorton  Windsorton | |
| Coordinates: 28°20′S 24°43′E / 28.333°S 24.717°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Northern Cape |
| District | Frances Baard |
| Municipality | Dikgatlong |
| Area | |
• Total | 51.1 km2 (19.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 6,250 |
| • Density | 120/km2 (320/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 67.5% |
| • Coloured | 26.4% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.8% |
| • White | 2.2% |
| • Other | 3.2% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Tswana | 55.2% |
| • Afrikaans | 36.5% |
| • English | 1.9% |
| • S. Ndebele | 1.9% |
| • Other | 4.6% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 8510 |
| PO box | 8510 |
| Area code | 053 |
The village is located on the Vaal River, 55 km north of Kimberley, 35 km northeast of Barkly West and 40 km south-west of Warrenton. It was founded in 1869 as a diamond-diggers’ camp and was administered by a village management board. The town started as Hebron, a mission station, but when diamonds were discovered, the area was flooded with prospectors and the town became a diggers' camp. The town was renamed after P F (Peter Ford) Windsor, the original owner of the land, who was instrumental in its development.
The Khoekhoen name is Chaib, ‘place of the kudu’.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Sum of the Main Places Windsorton and Kutlwano from Census 2011.
- ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 476.