Ventersdorp

Quality 0.50 · 1 view · Updated 2 months ago

Town in the North West province of South Africa

title: "Ventersdorp" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-the-jb-marks-local-municipality", "populated-places-established-in-1866", "populated-places-founded-by-afrikaners", "1866-establishments-in-africa"] description: "Town in the North West province of South Africa" topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-the-jb-marks-local-municipality" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventersdorp" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Town in the North West province of South Africa ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

FieldValue
nameVentersdorp
image_skylineVentersdorp, North West, South Africa (20539741091).jpg
pushpin_mapSouth Africa North West#South Africa#Africa
coordinates
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameSouth Africa
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1North West
subdivision_type2District
subdivision_name2Dr Kenneth Kaunda
subdivision_type3Municipality
subdivision_name3JB Marks
subdivision_type4Main Place
established_titleEstablished
established_date1866
leader_titleCouncillor
area_footnotes
area_total_km253.88
population_footnotes
population_total4204
population_as_of2011
population_density_km2auto
demographics_type1Racial makeup (2011)
demographics1_footnotes
demographics1_title1Black African
demographics1_info151.4%
demographics1_title2Coloured
demographics1_info25.5%
demographics1_title3Indian/Asian
demographics1_info32.3%
demographics1_title4White
demographics1_info440.2%
demographics1_title5Other
demographics1_info50.5%
demographics_type2First languages (2011)
demographics2_footnotes
demographics2_title1Afrikaans
demographics2_info146.6%
demographics2_title2Tswana
demographics2_info240.5%
demographics2_title3English
demographics2_info34.3%
demographics2_title4Xhosa
demographics2_info42.8%
demographics2_title5Other
demographics2_info55.8%
timezone1SAST
utc_offset1+2
postal_code_typePostal code (street)
postal_code2710
postal2_code_typePO box
postal2_code2710
area_code_typeArea code
area_code018
::

| name = Ventersdorp | image_skyline = Ventersdorp, North West, South Africa (20539741091).jpg | pushpin_map = South Africa North West#South Africa#Africa | coordinates = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = South Africa | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = North West | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Dr Kenneth Kaunda | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = JB Marks | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | established_date = 1866 | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 53.88 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 4204 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = | demographics1_title1 = Black African | demographics1_info1 = 51.4% | demographics1_title2 = Coloured | demographics1_info2 = 5.5% | demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian | demographics1_info3 = 2.3% | demographics1_title4 = White | demographics1_info4 = 40.2% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 0.5% | demographics_type2 = First languages (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = | demographics2_title1 = Afrikaans | demographics2_info1 = 46.6% | demographics2_title2 = Tswana | demographics2_info2 = 40.5% | demographics2_title3 = English | demographics2_info3 = 4.3% | demographics2_title4 = Xhosa | demographics2_info4 = 2.8% | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 5.8% | timezone1 = SAST | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code (street) | postal_code = 2710 | postal2_code_type = PO box | postal2_code = 2710 | area_code_type = Area code | area_code = 018 Ventersdorp is a town of about 4,200 people in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. It was the seat of the defunct Ventersdorp Local Municipality until 2016.

Ventersdorp is centrally located, making it easier to access more prominent urban towns such as Klerksdorp, Lichtenburg, Potchefstroom and Rustenburg. The township (or Location) of Tshing houses most of the town's blacks and coloureds. Tshing has a diamond mine nearby that was owned by a town councillor in the early 1990s. Tshing Location has one high school: Thuto Boswa High School. The smaller township Toevlug has Coloured residents, some of whom have attend the former whites-only Afrikaans High School after the end of Apartheid since 1995.

History

The town grew around a Dutch Reformed Church that was established in 1866. It was named after Johannes Venter who owned the farm Roodepoort and the land the church was built on. It was proclaimed as a town in June 1887. The Mill on the town was built by Richrd Carew Wilson in 1866

Racial tensions

Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist Eugène Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp and the town is the base of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), the far-right white separatist political organisation and former paramilitary group that Terre'Blanche founded. The town was the site of the 1991 "Battle of Ventersdorp" in which lethal clashes occurred between members of the apartheid government security forces and the AWB ahead of a scheduled appearance by then State President F. W. de Klerk.

References

External sources

  • The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, a Nick Broomfield film (1991)
  • His Big White Self, a Nick Broomfield film (2006)

|Centre = Ventersdorp |North = Koster |Northeast = Droogpan |East = Carletonville |Southeast = Potchefstroom |South = Vlakfontein |Southwest = Hartbeesfontein |West = Coligny |Northwest = Schoonspruit Nature Reserve

References

  1. "Main Place Ventersdorp". Census 2011.
  2. "www.routes.co.za/nw/ventersdorp".
  3. "www.tourismnorthwest.co.za/southern/ventersdorp".
  4. (2014). "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names". Jonathan Ball Publishers.
  5. (4 April 2010). "Eugene Terreblanche killed in South Africa". BBC News.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

populated-places-in-the-jb-marks-local-municipalitypopulated-places-established-in-1866populated-places-founded-by-afrikaners1866-establishments-in-africa