ANC parliamentary constituency office in Steynsburg, EC

Steynsburg is a small town in the

Walter Sisulu Local Municipality Walter Sisulu Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Joe Gqabi District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The municipality was formed by the merging of Maletswai and Gariep Local Municipality immediately after the August 2016 L ...

of the

Joe Gqabi District Municipality Joe Gqabi District Municipality is one of the seven districts of Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Joe Gqabi is Barkly East. The majority of its 349,768 people speak IsiXhosa ( 2011 census). Before 1 February 2010 it was known a ...

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province of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. Steynsburg is located on the intersection of the R56 and R390. The town lies south-west of Burgersdorp and north of

Hofmeyr Hofmeyr is a small Karoo town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, 20 km west of the Bamboesberg mountain range. It lies 64 km north-east of Cradock at an altitude of 1,252 metres. According to the 2011 census, the population ...

. It developed around the Reformed Church established in 1872 and has been administered by a village management board since 1874. Steynsburg is named after Douwe Gerbrandt Steyn, grandfather of President

Paul Kruger Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (; 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and President of the South African Republic (or ...

. Steynsburg has a well-established Provincial hospital.Eastern Cape Department of Health website
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Notable citizens

* Tank van Rooyen *

Johannes Cornelis van Rooy Johannes Cornelis (Joon) van Rooy (9 July 1890 — 19 August 1954) was Rector of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (abbreviated as PU for CHE) was a South Afri ...

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Populated places founded by Afrikaners Populated places established in 1874 1874 establishments in the Cape Colony Populated places in the Walter Sisulu Local Municipality {{EasternCape-geo-stub