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Geysdorp is a town in Tswaing Local Municipality in the North West province of South Africa. The town is in the former Western
Transvaal Transvaal is a historical geographic term associated with land north of (''i.e.'', beyond) the Vaal River in South Africa. A number of states and administrative divisions have carried the name Transvaal. * South African Republic (1856–1902; af, ...
, some 24 km south-west of Delareyville.


History

It was laid out in 1895 on the farm "Paardefontein". Probably named after Commandant Nicolaas Claudius Gey van Pittius (1837-1893), Administrator of the Boer republic of Goshen.


References

Populated places in the Tswaing Local Municipality {{NorthWestZA-geo-stub