Senwabarwana
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| Coordinates | 23 ° 16 '15 " S , 29 ° 7' 23" O | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Limpopo | |||
| District | Capricorn | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-LP | ||
| local community | Blouberg | ||
| surface | 5.7 km² | ||
| Residents | 5529 (2011) | ||
| density | 970 Ew. / km² | ||
Senwabarwana (formerly Bochum ) is a city in the Limpopo Province in South Africa . It is the administrative seat of the municipality of Blouberg in the Capricorn district .
geography
In 2011 the city had 5529 inhabitants. Around 96% of the residents said North Sotho was the first language . The immediately neighboring Bochum had 6,777 inhabitants at that time. Senwabarwana is located about 90 kilometers northwest of Polokwane .
history
The German missionary Carl Franz and his wife founded a station here in 1890 and named it after a biblical parable ( Ri 2,1 EU ) Bochim (place of weeping). The mission station included an infirmary, which is now called the Helene Franz Hospital .
A part of Bochum was later called Senwabarwana, North Sotho for "electricity, where people used to draw and drink water".
traffic
Senwabarwana is not on any highway. The R521 runs past the village around 16 kilometers east.
Personalities
- Mamphela Ramphele (* 1947), South African politician and doctor, born in Bochum
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2011 Census , accessed on January 4, 2018
- ^ Peter Edmund Raper : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Lowry Publishers, Johannesburg 1987 (2nd ed.), P. 54.
- ↑ Meaning of the name at africanlanguages.com (English), accessed on January 4, 2018