Mookgophong | |
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Mookgophong shown within Limpopo | |
Coordinates: 24°31′S 28°43′E / 24.517°S 28.717°ECoordinates: 24°31′S 28°43′E / 24.517°S 28.717°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Limpopo |
District | Waterberg |
Municipality | Mookgophong |
Established | 1907 |
• Councillor | (ANC) |
Area | |
• Total | 27.18 km2 (10.49 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 24,853 |
• Density | 910/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 88.1% |
• Coloured | 0.4% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.2% |
• White | 10.9% |
• Other | 0.5% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Northern Sotho | 56.3% |
• Tsonga | 13.7% |
• Afrikaans | 10.9% |
• Sotho | 6.1% |
• Other | 12.9% |
Postal code (street) | 0560 |
PO box | 0560 |
Area code | 014 |
Mookgophong, also known by its former name, Naboomspruit, is a town in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
Town 42 km north-east of Modimolle and 51 km south-west of Mokopane. It was founded on the farm Vischgat in 1907 and administered by a health committee from 1919. The name Naboomspruit is Afrikaans but derived from Khoekhoen; ‘euphorbia tree stream’, after the Euphorbia ingens which grows there. The town was officially renamed Mookgophong on the 24 November 2006, by the South African government.