Moorreesburg is a rural town situated about 90 kilometres (60 mi) north of Cape Town , in the Western Cape province of South Africa . It was laid out in 1879 on the farm Hooikraal, was administered by a village management board from 1882 and attained municipal status in 1909. Today it falls within the Swartland Local Municipality , which is part of the West Coast District Municipality . The town is the seat of government for the West Coast District Municipality.
15-536: Moorreesburg lies just off the N7 national road , at a driving distance of 100 kilometres (62 mi) from Cape Town. The R311 regional road also passes through the town, as does the West Coast branch line railway. It has two public primary schools, one public high school, a library, a police station, a magistrate's court, and a health clinic. Moorreesburg was named after J.C. le Febre Moorrees (1807–1885), minister of
30-626: A municipality council that currently has seven seats. In the 2010 local authority election , a total of 3,156 votes were cast in the city. SWAPO won with approximately 48% of the vote. Of the three other parties seeking votes in the election, Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) received approximately 35% of the vote, followed by the Democratic Party of Namibia (DPN, 10%) and the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA, 7%). The 2015 local authority election
45-590: A museum. It was declared a historic monument in 1978 and is a well-known landmark. Its unique combination of Gothic architecture cast in African stone makes it one of the architectural masterpieces in the country and a popular tourist attraction. Other notable buildings are the Schützenhaus ( marksmen's club house , 1905–07), the railway station building (1908) and the Imperial Post Office (now
60-680: Is a national route in South Africa that runs from Cape Town northwards through the West Coast and Namaqualand regions to the Namibian border at Vioolsdrif . It is known as the Cape Namibia Road. After crossing the border, it changes designation to B1 and runs north through Windhoek and the north of Namibia . The N7 national route forms the first section of the Tripoli-Cape Town Highway , which
75-517: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Keetmanshoop Keetmanshoop is a town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia , lying on the Trans-Namib Railway from Windhoek to Upington in South Africa . It is named after Johann Keetman, a German industrialist and benefactor of the city. Before the colonial era, the settlement was known as ǂNuǂgoaes or Swartmodder , both meaning "Black Marsh" and indicating
90-837: Is a proposed link between Cape Town and Tripoli , the capital city of Libya , being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union . The N7 begins at a four-way interchange with the N1 national route in Cape Town , adjacent to Acacia Park , heading northwards. South of this interchange, it is the M7 route of Cape Town (Jakes Gerwel Drive). The portion of
105-535: Is also close to the Giant's Playground, a natural geological feature formed about 180 million years ago that consists of dolerite rocks that look as if they were stacked by giants. Near Keetsmanshoop are notable localities for fossil Mesosaurus , an extinct genus of reptile from the Early Permian of southern Africa and South America. The Rhenish Missionary Church was erected in 1895 and now also contains
120-564: Is now marked as the founding date of Keetmanshoop. The mission station was named after the German trader and director of the Rhenish Missionary Society, Johann Keetman [ de ] , who supported the mission financially, although he never actually visited the place himself. The town is situated near two quiver tree forests, one of them being a national monument and a major tourist attraction of Namibia. It
135-561: The Swartland congregation of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk from 1833 to 1881. In 1889 a village council was established, by 1909 the settlement was granted the status of a municipality. In 1913 a Carnegie Library was established in the town. The town is an important logistical and processing hub for wheat and oats , two crops that are extensively cultivated in the surrounding area. The importance of
150-718: The Keetmanshoop tourist information, erected in 1910). Also close to Keetmanshoop is the Naute Dam and the Neckertal Dam - largest dam in the country. The J. Stephanus Stadium is located in Keetmanshoop and is home to Fedics United F.C. , a football team in the Namibia Premier League . Keetmanshoop is an important center for the Karakul sheep farming community. Keetmanshoop is governed by
165-696: The N7 is a single-carriageway highway with wide paved shoulders to Piekenierskloof Pass and through the Olifants River valley until Clanwilliam . The rest of the N7 to the Namibian border, through Vredendal and Springbok (where it meets the N14 national route ) is a single-carriageway highway with no paved shoulders. After crossing into Namibia, it becomes the B1 road to Keetmanshoop and Windhoek . This South African road or road transport-related article
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#1732786987528180-773: The presence of a spring in the area. The first white settler, Guilliam Visagie , arrived here in 1785. When in February 1850 the Kharoǃoan clan ( Keetmanshoop Nama ) split from the Red Nation , the main subtribe of the Nama people , they settled permanently in the area. In 1860 the Rhenish Missionary Society founded a mission there to christianise the local Nama people . The first missionary, Johann Georg Schröder, arrived in Keetmanshoop on April 14, 1866, which
195-565: The road within Cape Town is a freeway , but it loses limited-access freeway status shortly after exiting the urban limits at the M12 interchange (Malibongwe Drive). From here, it remains a dual-carriageway and gains limited-access freeway status again at the Melkbosstrand M19 interchange. It remains a limited-access freeway until just after Malmesbury at the R45 intersection. Thereafter,
210-524: The wheat industry to the town is the subject of the Moorreesburg Wheat Museum. According to the 2011 census , Moorreesburg proper has a population of 7,760 people in 2,578 households. 53% of the population identified themselves as " Coloured ", while 37% identified as " White " and 10% as " Black ". 88% spoke Afrikaans as their first language , while 6% spoke Xhosa and 3% spoke English. N7 road (South Africa) The N7
225-506: Was won by SWAPO by a much larger margin. SWAPO accumulated 2,337 votes and won five seats in the municipal council. DTA (538 votes) and RDP (186 votes) gained one seat each. The 2020 Namibian local authority election was won by LPM . LPM accumulated 3,619 votes and won five seats in the municipal council. SWAPO (1648 votes) gained two seats. Keetmanshoop has a hot desert climate ( Köppen climate classification BWh ), with long, very hot summers and cold winters. The annual average rainfall
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