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, Eastern Cape province of

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

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. 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 (o ...

. 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

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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