Philandersbron is a town in the

Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality is a Local municipality (South Africa), local municipality of South Africa. It was established after the South African municipal elections, 2016, August 2016 local elections by merging Mier Local Municipality, Mier ...

within the

ZF Mgcawu District Municipality The ZF Mgcawu District Municipality (known before 1 July 2013 as Siyanda) is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of ZF Mgcawu is Upington. The majority (76%) of its 236,783 people speak Afrikaans (2011 ...

in the

Northern Cape The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi ...

province of

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. It has a population of 1,081; 99.07% of those speak

Afrikaans Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans g ...

. The town is mostly comprised (93.80%) of

Coloured people Coloureds ( af, Kleurlinge or , ) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in Southern Africa who may have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region, including African, European, and Asian. South ...

with small percentages of Black African 3.89% and

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(1.67%) people. 35.1% of residents are 14 or under. A small primary school is located in the town along with a public health clinic.

References

Populated places in the Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality {{NorthernCape-geo-stub