Buysdorp

Buysdorp is a village in Makhado Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

Buysdorp
Buysdorp
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Coordinates: 23.066°S 29.4°E / -23.066; 29.4
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Vhembe
Municipality	Makhado
Area [1]
• Total	21.67 km^2 (8.37 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	629
• Density	29/km^2 (75/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	43.2%
• Coloured	56.8%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	56.8%
• Northern Sotho	12.3%
• Sotho	8.8%
• Venda	6.8%
• Other	15.3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	0923
PO box	0923

A rural coloured community located 14 km from Vivo, on the R522 road to Louis Trichardt, Buysdorp was named after Coenraad de Buys, the “King of the Bastards” in Sarah Millin's fictional account of his life.[2]

In 1888, President Paul Kruger granted 11,000 hectares of land to the Buys family for services rendered to the Transvaal Republic; they have retained this land ever since. The community are relatively self-sufficient because of their independent water supply and subsistence farming, and they maintain their own roads; as a result, they have remained comparatively insular.[2]

References

1. "Main Place Buysdorp". Census 2011.
2. Ebersohn, Kathleen (2012). "Ways of Loving: Being Coloured, Being a Man in Buysdorp" (PDF). University of the Witwatersrand. Retrieved 8 January 2014.