Rooigrond is a town in
Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in the
North West province of
South Africa.
Hamlet 16 km south-east of
Mafikeng
Mafikeng, officially known as Mahikeng and previously Mafeking (, ), is the capital city of the North West province of South Africa.
Close to South Africa's border with Botswana, Mafikeng is northeast of Cape Town and west of Johannesburg. In ...
and 25 km south-west of
Ottoshoop. Afrikaans for ‘red ground’. The place was formerly known as Vrywilligersrus and Heliopolis. Part of the region Rooigrond, ceded to Boer volunteers under
Adriaan de la Rey Adriaan is the Dutch and Afrikaans spelling of the given name Adrian. Before the 19th century the spelling Adriaen was also common, and people used the spelling interchangeably.
Adriaan may refer to:
People Artists
*Adriaen Backer (1635–1684), ...
by Tswana chiefs in the 1880s, became the republics of
Stellaland
The Republic of Stellaland ( nl, Republiek Stellaland) was, from 1882 to 1883, a Boer republic located in an area of British Bechuanaland (now in South Africa's North West Province), west of the Transvaal. After unification with the neighbour ...
and
Goshen.
Rooigrond served as capital of the
State of Goshen
Goshen, officially known as the State of Goshen (), was a short-lived Boer republic in southern Africa founded by Boers expanding west from Transvaal who opposed British advance in the region.
Located in Tswana territory west of the Transvaal, ...
from 1882 to 1883.
References
Populated places in the Mafikeng Local Municipality
Capitals of former nations
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