Owendale is a town in
Kgatelopele Local Municipality
Kgatelopele Municipality (; ) is a local municipality within the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. ''Kgatelopele'' is a Setswana name meaning "progress".
Main places
The 2001 census divided the munic ...
in the
Northern Cape
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province of
South Africa
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. It is located between
Postmasburg
Postmasburg is a town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Location
The Town is located approximately 170 km east of Upington. It is north of Griquatown and west-south-west of Daniëlskuil.
History
Originally a station of the ...
and
Daniëlskuil
Daniëlskuil is a town in ZF Mgcawu District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Description
The settlement is north-west of Kimberley and north-east of Postmasburg. It takes its name from a cone-shaped depression deep ...
.
An old mining town, it was owned by Pieter du Toit from 1998 to 2006, when it was auctioned.
[ He had reportedly bought the settlement as a base for ''Gemeente van die Verbondsvolk'', a religious cult.][ Members of the congregation wished to live in an isolated village, but the dearth of available jobs led to the disintegration of the community.][ Asbestos mining operations had ceased in 1993.][
]Louis Theroux
Louis Sebastian Theroux (; born 20 May 1970) is a British and American documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award.
After graduati ...
visited the town as part of his 2000 Weird Weekends documentary series, in which the town is described as being for "whites only".
See also
* Morgenzon
Morgenzon (Dutch for ''morning sun'') is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Osspruit River ''(Ox Stream)'' with an agricultural school in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is 45 km south-west of Ermelo and 35 k ...
* Balmoral, Mpumalanga
Balmoral is a town in the Emalahleni Local Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The village was established as a railway station of the '' Oosterlijn'' from Pretoria to Maputo in 1894. The village and railway station were erec ...
References
Populated places in the Kgatelopele Local Municipality
Intentional communities in South Africa
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