Saulspoort

Place in North West, South Africa

25°09′19″S 27°10′17″E / 25.15528°S 27.17139°E / -25.15528; 27.17139CountrySouth AfricaProvinceNorth WestDistrictBojanalaMunicipalityMoses KotaneArea

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• Total14.76 km² (5.70 sq mi)Population

(2011)^[1]

• Total11,220 • Density760/km² (2,000/sq mi)Racial makeup (2011)

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• Black African99.5% • Coloured0.1% • Indian/Asian0.1% • Other0.3%First languages (2011)

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• Tswana86.4% • English3.3% • Zulu2.1% • S. Ndebele1.5% • Other6.8%Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)Postal code (street)

0318

PO box

0318

Saulspoort (also known as Moruleng)^[2] is a village in South Africa, at the northern foot of the Pilanesberg, about 65 km north of Rustenburg. It was named after a former baKgatla chief, Tsheole, called Saul by the early settlers.^[3]

It was established when Henri Gonin, a Swiss missionary with the Dutch Reformed Church preaching to the baKgatla tribe, moved to Saulspoort farm, which was owned by the later president Paul Kruger; Kruger eventually sold the farm to Gonin in 1869.^[4] In 1895 the baKgatla purchased most of Saulspoort from Gonin.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Main Place Saulspoort". Census 2011.
^ "Pilane and Another v Pheto and Others". Southern African Legal Information Institute. Moruleng and Saulspoort mean the same village and the names are frequently used interchangeably…
^ Raper, Peter E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Internet Archive. p. 399. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
^ Daniel J. Theron (31 March 2014). Faith, Hope and Determination. Author House. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-4918-3105-2.
^ Mbenga, Bernard; Morton, Fred (24 April 1997). "The Missionary as Land Broker". South African Historical Journal (36). Africana Periodical Literature bibliographic database: 145–167. doi:10.1080/02582479708671273. Retrieved 29 August 2014.