Richtersveld Municipality ( Afrikaans : Richtersveld Munisipaliteit ) is a local municipality within the Namakwa District Municipality , in the Northern Cape province of South Africa .
11-705: Kuboes is a town in Richtersveld Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa . Kuboes was one of the first permanent settlements on the Richtersveld . The town grew around a Rhenish mission set up by revered Johan Hein, who began to preach to the nomadic population of the surrounding areas in 1844. A church was built in 1893, and eventually the itinerant population decided to set up in Kuboes itself. Kuboes
22-680: A mission station under the charge of Reverend Hein at Kuboes during the mid 19th century. On 23 December 1847 the British Crown, through annexation, extended the northern boundary of the then Cape Province from the Buffels River up to the Orange River. From that date the whole of Little Namaqualand (including the Richtersveld) became subject to British rule. In 1925 diamonds were discovered near Port Nolloth . In 1927
33-454: A particularly rich deposit was found at the mouth of the Orange River at Alexander Bay . Many people moved into the area. Throughout the 1960s through 1998, a Light Infantry Regiment of the SADF was garrisoned here along with 2 batteries of Self-Propelled Artillery The municipality covers an area of 9,608 square kilometres (3,710 sq mi) in the north-western corner of South Africa where
44-529: Is a centre of Nama culture, and the local school is claimed to be the only school in the world that teaches the Nama language . This Northern Cape location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Richtersveld Local Municipality The municipality is named after Reverend W Richter, a Dutch missionary from the 20th century who opened a mission station in Kuboes . Richtersveld
55-599: Is part of Little Namaqualand , the part of Namaqualand south of the Orange River . The original inhabitants of Namaqualand were overwhelmingly Khoi Khoi , but also included some San people . During the 19th century, other people started settling in Little Namaqualand. These included some white Trekboere , and also a number of so-called basters . Missionaries too started showing an interest in Little Namaqualand. The Rhenish Missionary Society established
66-670: The Atlantic coast meets the Orange River border with Namibia . It borders on the Nama Khoi Local Municipality to the south and east, Namibia's ǁKaras Region to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. At the time of the 2011 census the municipality had a population of 11,982 in 3,543. The principal language was Afrikaans which is spoken by 87.0% of the population, followed by isiXhosa (spoken by 6.1%) and English (spoken by 2.6%). 76.6% of
77-528: The municipality include Sendelingsdrif (pop. 192) and Grootderm (pop. 80) along the Orange River, and Kuboes (pop. 948), Eksteenfontein (pop. 531) and Lekkersing (pop. 363) in the interior. The northernmost part of the municipal area is part of the ǀAi-ǀAis/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park , while immediately to the south of the park is the Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape World Heritage Site . The main transport route in
88-516: The municipality is the R382 road which runs from Steinkopf (where it connects to the N7 highway) west to Port Nolloth, and then north along the coast to Alexander Bay. The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation . Six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in six wards , while the remaining five are chosen from party lists so that
99-555: The population identified themselves as " Coloured ", 13.1% as " Black African ", and 8.5% as " White ". The principal town of the municipality is Port Nolloth (population 6,092 in 2011) which lies on the Atlantic coast in the southern part of the municipality. Other towns are Alexander Bay (pop. 1,736) at the mouth of the Orange River, and Sanddrif (pop. 1,854) which is adjacent to the Baken diamond mine . Other smaller settlements in
110-481: The total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of six seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. Kuboes Kuboes is a town in Richtersveld Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa . Kuboes
121-399: Was one of the first permanent settlements on the Richtersveld . The town grew around a Rhenish mission set up by revered Johan Hein, who began to preach to the nomadic population of the surrounding areas in 1844. A church was built in 1893, and eventually the itinerant population decided to set up in Kuboes itself. Kuboes is a centre of Nama culture, and the local school is claimed to be
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