Joubertina
Place in Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Joubertina is a small town in the Kou-Kamma Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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| Coordinates: 33°49′30″S 23°51′28″E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Eastern Cape |
| District | Sarah Baartman |
| Municipality | Kou-Kamma |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.20 km2 (3.17 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 5,752 |
| • Density | 701/km2 (1,820/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 16.8% |
| • Coloured | 73.5% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
| • White | 9.0% |
| • Other | 0.5% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Afrikaans | 87.6% |
| • Xhosa | 6.4% |
| • English | 3.2% |
| • Other | 2.9% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 6410 |
| PO box | 6410 |
| Area code | 042 |
Description
Town on the Wabooms River in the Langkloof, some 50 km north-west of Assegaaibos, 70 km south-east of Avontuur and 213 km from Port Elizabeth. Joubertina was founded and introduced into the Langkloof community in 1907. Having secured a portion of the farm Onzer, in between the villages of Krakeel and Twee Riviere (both founded in 1765), a property development was launched there under the initiative of the Dutch Reformed Church. As the sale of erven around a newly erected church building gradually got underway in 1907, the future town was named in honour of W A Joubert, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Uniondale between 1878 and 1893.[2]
Joubertina is located on the R62 road in the Langkloof valley, approximately 5 km west of Twee Riviere, near the western extreme of the Eastern Cape.
The town has a station on the narrow gauge Avontuur Railway.
