Wolmaransstad

Wolmaransstad (Afrikaans for "Wolmarans City") is a maize-farming town situated on the N12 between Johannesburg and Kimberley in North West Province of South Africa. The town lies in an important alluvial diamond-mining area and it is the main town of the Maquassi Hills Local Municipality.

Wolmaransstad
NG Church in Wolmaransstad
Wolmaransstad
Wolmaransstad
Coordinates: 27°13′0″S 25°58′28″E
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceNorth West
DistrictDr Kenneth Kaunda
MunicipalityMaquassi Hills
Area
 • Total41.68 km2 (16.09 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total3,633
 • Density87/km2 (230/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African35.4%
 • Coloured2.6%
 • Indian/Asian2.8%
 • White57.4%
 • Other1.8%
First languages (2011)
 • Afrikaans71.6%
 • Tswana13.0%
 • English8.2%
 • Sotho2.5%
 • Other4.7%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
2630
PO box
2630
Area code018

Town 245 km south-west of Johannesburg and 56 km north-east of Bloemhof. It was laid out on the farms Rooderand and Vlakfontein in 1888, and proclaimed a town in 1891. Named after Jacobus M. A. Wolmarans, then member of the Executive Council.[2]

Wolmaransstad originated in 1891 on the banks of the Makwasi River (San word for a type of wild spearmint) and takes its name from J. M. A. Wolmarans, a volksraad councilman.

Wolmaransstad serves a large community and is an important diamond buying centre.

The Dutch Reformed church building was designed by Gerard Moerdijk.

Tourist attractions
  • Broadbent Mission Station
  • Digger's Diamond route
  • Makwassierante Conservation Area
  • Wolwespruit Dam Nature Reserve

Notable people
  • Bernardus Gerhardus Fourie (also known as Brand Fourie, 1916–2008), born in Wolmaransstad, South African politician
  • Wim Erasmus, South African singer
  • Nel-marie Nolan, née Erasmus, Wim's daughter, and wife of Riaan Nolan
gollark: In California apparently the problem is just accursedly awful zoning.
gollark: That seems like one of those really bad hacky patches.
gollark: Anyway, one interesting proposal I've read a lot is land value tax; you can set up the incentives such that you're basically just renting land from everyone, instead of buying and trading it, which seems more reasonable to me.
gollark: That doesn't seem like a very clear allocation mechanism.
gollark: How do you allocate land if not some kind of market mechanism? It seems like the really low rent would work like rent controls or whatever in that it's basically just first-come-first-serve.

See also

References
  1. "Main Place Wolmaransstad". Census 2011.
  2. "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 480.


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