Hotazel is a town in
John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality
John Taolo Gaetsewe (formerly Kgalagadi) is one of the five districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of the authority is Kuruman. The majority of its 176,899 people speak Setswana (2001 Census). The district code is DC45.
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in the
Northern Cape
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province of
South Africa
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The town serves the
manganese
Manganese is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of ...
mines, 147 km (91 mi) north of
Postmasburg and 46 km (28.6 mi) north-west of
Kuruman. It takes its name from the farm on which it was laid out; a pun on 'hot as hell', referring to the weather when the farm was surveyed and the generally torrid climate surrounding the area.
References
Populated places in the Joe Morolong Local Municipality
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