Joubertina

Joubertina
Joubertina
Joubertina Joubertina
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)
• Total	5,752
• Density	700/km2 (1,800/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

Joubertina is a small town in the Kou-Kamma Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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.

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.

External links

• Routes.co.za Joubertina Travel Information