Hotazel

Province

Hotazel ​​is a small town in the municipality of Joe Morolong, John Taolo Gaetsewe district of the province of Northern Cape in South Africa. It is located 61 km north-west of Kuruman. 2011, the town had 1,756 inhabitants. The place was named after a former farm and means " hot as hell ".

Economy

Great importance has Hotazel ​​obtained by the Manganerzbergbau in its environment. In the nearby Black Rock Area, the world's largest and richest Manganerzlagerstätten be used by peripheral mining.

Due to the growing demand for labor in the nearby mining arise systematically scale housing estates in the town.

The closest

A few kilometers north of Hotazel ​​starts at Black Rock a railway for the transport of ore from the Kalahari Manganese Field to various domestic processing plants, for example in Cato Ridge, South Africa and Erzhäfen. In this respect Erzexporte get over the Port Elizabeth manganese terminal at the port of Port Elizabeth and the Port of Durban.

Due to the distance expanding the state railway company Transnet Manganese get from the mines in the region Hotazel ​​over electrified connections are increasingly on the Manganese - corridor with the trains of Transnet Freight Rail in the deep water port of Ngqura to the coast to the Indian Ocean.

Road connections are made with two main roads to the national network. About the Rietfontein approach leading to the border with Namibia R31 leads from Hotazel ​​to Kuruman and on to Kimberley. Furthermore, results from the Botswana border from the north, take the R380 south to Sishen and from there to Postmasburg, where there is a domestic airport.