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Ventersdorp
North West, South Africa · Africa
About Ventersdorp
Ventersdorp sits on the route: 55 minutes from Welverdiend.
Ventersdorp is in North West, South Africa, with about 26,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Welverdiend, about 46 km away.
Ventersdorp is a town of about 4,200 people in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. It was the seat of the defunct Ventersdorp Local Municipality until 2016.
Ventersdorp is centrally located, making it easier to access more prominent urban towns such as Klerksdorp, Lichtenburg,Read more
Potchefstroom and Rustenburg. The township (or Location) of Tshing houses most of the town's blacks and coloureds. Tshing has a diamond mine nearby that was owned by a town councillor in the early 1990s. Tshing Location has one high school: Thuto Boswa High School. The smaller township Toevlug has Coloured residents, some of whom have attend the former whites-only Afrikaans High School after the end of Apartheid since 1995.
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Ventersdorp is in North West, South Africa, about 46 km from Welverdiend.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 26,446
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- South Africa
- Region
- North West
- Timezone
- Africa/Johannesburg
- Coordinates
- -26.3140, 26.8222
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