Vryburg

Province

Vryburg [ frɛĭbœrx ] ( Afrikaans for " Fribourg " ) is a large agricultural town that Ruth Segomotsi Mompati ( North West Province, South Africa) is located in the district Dr. It is the administrative headquarters of the district. 2011, the city had 21,182 inhabitants.

Geography

Vryburg is located at an altitude of 1234 meters above sea level.

The city is located in the center of Kimberley ( the capital of the Northern Cape Province ) and Mahikeng ( the capital of the North West Province ). Cecil Rhodes ' " Northern railway line ", which begins in Cape Town, performs Vryburg and continues northward towards the Victoria Falls and beyond. Vryburg also located on the N14, which starts in the province of Gauteng and leads to the southwest through Vryburg, Kuruman and Upington to Springbok to the northwest of the province. The National Road connects Gauteng with Namibia. It is here crossed by the coming from the direction of Kimberley and to Botswana secondary N18.

South of the city lies the township Huhudi ( Tswana for " flowing water" ). The Tiger Kloof Educational Institute, a school, in 1902 also set up south of Vryburg. The stone church on the campus was declared a national monument.

History

When the Boer Republic Stellaland was founded in 1882, Vryburg became the capital. The first and only President of the Republic was GJ van Niekerk. 1885, the British captured the city and annexed the territory in which a colony of British Bechuanaland, which then in 1895 became part of the Cape Colony. In the Second Boer War, the British built a concentration camp in the city to the Boer women and children to accommodate. 1910, the Cape Colony became the Cape Province. In 1994, when today's nine provinces have been defined, Vryburg the North West Province has been assigned.

Economy

The area around Vryburg is Africa's largest beef supplier. Especially Hereford cattle are kept here. Occasionally, the area known as " the Texas of South Africa" ​​. Corn and peanuts are other important agricultural products in the district.

Twinning

Vryburg has since 1999 been twinned with Assen in the Netherlands.

Personalities

  • Arnold Theiler, a veterinarian who founded the world-renowned research facility for veterinary medicine in Onderstepoort near Pretoria, conducted research in the early years of his career on the farm Armoedsvlakte which is located eight kilometers west of Vryburg. The Theiler Museum on the farm provides some of his equipment.
  • Sally du Randt (* around 1965 in Vryburg ) is an opera, operetta, song and concert singer in the vocal range soprano.
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