Delportshoop

Delportshoop
Delportshoop  Delportshoop shown within Northern Cape
Coordinates: 28°25′00″S 24°18′00″E / 28.416667°S 24.3°ECoordinates: 28°25′00″S 24°18′00″E / 28.416667°S 24.3°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Northern Cape
District	Frances Baard
Municipality	Dikgatlong
Area[1]
• Total	67.8 km^2 (26.2 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	10,346
• Density	150/km^2 (400/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[1]
• Black African	30.9%
• Coloured	33.4%
• Indian/Asian	1.0%
• White	2.9%
• Other	31.9%
First languages (2011)[1]
• Tswana	49.4%
• Afrikaans	43.0%
• English	1.9%
• Zulu	1.2%
• Other	4.6%
Postal code (street)	8377
PO box	8377
Area code	053

Delportshoop is a town in Frances Baard District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

The village resides at the confluence of the Harts and Vaal rivers. It developed from a diamond-diggers’ camp and is said to have given the name after the first person to find diamonds there. The public diggings were proclaimed in November 1871, a village management board was instituted in 1931, and municipal status attained in 1970.^[2]

Two Tswana names for Delportshoop are encountered, namely Tsineng, also spelt Tsining, Tsening, Tsenin and Tsoneng, and Dekgathlong, also spelt Dekhath-long, Dekatlong, Dekgathlong, Dikgatlhong, Likatlong and Likhat-lhong. The latter name means ‘meeting-place’, referring to the confluence of the Vaal and Harts rivers there.^[2]

References

1. Sum of the Main Places Delportshoop and Tidimalo from Census 2011.
2. "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 134.