Thaba Phatswa
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Thaba Phatswa | |
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Thaba Phatswa shown within Free State | |
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Country | South Africa |
Province | Free State |
District | Thabo Mofutsanyane |
Municipality | Mantsopa |
Established | {{#property:P571}} |
Area[1] | |
• Total | 0.60 km2 (0.23 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 915 |
• Density | 1,500/km2 (3,900/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011)[1] | |
• Black African | 22.7% |
• Coloured | 76.4% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.2% |
• White | 0.1% |
• Other | 0.5% |
First languages (2011)[1] | |
• Afrikaans | 84.9% |
• Sotho | 9.4% |
• English | 2.6% |
• Tswana | 1.1% |
• Other | 2.0% |
Thaba Phatswa is a town in Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa.
Town some 30km south-east of Thaba Nchu and 22km north of Hobhouse. It takes its name from the mountain a few kilometres to the south-west. Said to be of Tswana origin and to mean ‘black with white spots’.[2]
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