Buysdorp

Buysdorp
Buysdorp
Buysdorp
 Buysdorp shown within Limpopo
Buysdorp
Buysdorp (South Africa)
Buysdorp
Buysdorp (Africa)
Coordinates: 23°03′58″S 29°24′00″E / 23.066°S 29.4°E / -23.066; 29.4Coordinates: 23°03′58″S 29°24′00″E / 23.066°S 29.4°E / -23.066; 29.4
Country South Africa
Province Limpopo
District Vhembe
Municipality Makhado
Area[1]
 • Total 21.67 km2 (8.37 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 629
 • Density 29/km2 (75/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[1]
 • Black African 43.2%
 • Coloured 56.8%
First languages (2011)[1]
 • Afrikaans 56.8%
 • Northern Sotho 12.3%
 • Sotho 8.8%
 • Venda 6.8%
 • Other 15.3%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street) 0923
PO box 0923

Buysdorp is a village in Makhado Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

A rural coloured community located 14 km from Vivo, on the R522 road to Louis Trichardt, Buysdorp was named after Coenraad de Buys, the “King of the Bastards” in Sarah Millin's fictional account of his life.[2]

In 1888, President Paul Kruger granted 11,000 hectares of land to the Buys family for services rendered to the Transvaal Republic; they have retained this land ever since. The community are relatively self-sufficient because of their independent water supply and subsistence farming, and they maintain their own roads; as a result, they have remained comparatively insular.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Main Place Buysdorp". Census 2011.
  2. 1 2 Ebersohn, Kathleen (2012). "Ways of Loving: Being Coloured, Being a Man in Buysdorp" (PDF). University of the Witwatersrand. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
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