Rooiberg


Rooiberg
Rooiberg is located in Limpopo
Rooiberg
Rooiberg
Coordinates: 24.776°S 27.738°E
Country South Africa
Province Limpopo
District Waterberg
Municipality Thabazimbi
Area
[1]
 • Total 43.98 km2 (16.98 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total 2,310
 • Density 53/km2 (140/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
 • Black African 88.4%
 • Coloured 0.4%
 • Indian/Asian 0.2%
 • White 10.8%
 • Other 0.2%
First languages (2011)
[1]
 • Tswana 65.1%
 • Afrikaans 10.3%
 • Northern Sotho 9.0%
 • Tsonga 4.5%
 • Other 11.0%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box
0500
Area code 014

Rooiberg is a town in Waterberg District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

Town, archaeological site and tin-mining area, 50 km west-north-west of Warmbad, at the conjunction of the Springbok Flats with the Waterberg Plateau. The name is Afrikaans for ‘red mountain’.[2]

References

  1.  "Sub Place Rooiberg". Census 2011.
  2.  "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 391.


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