Buysdorp

Buysdorp
Buysdorp
Buysdorp Buysdorp Buysdorp  Buysdorp shown within Limpopo
Coordinates: 23°03′58″S 29°24′00″E / 23.066°S 29.4°ECoordinates: 23°03′58″S 29°24′00″E / 23.066°S 29.4°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Vhembe
Municipality	Makhado
Area[1]
• Total	21.67 km^2 (8.37 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	629
• Density	29/km^2 (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%
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, Paul Kruger bequeathed the Buys family with 11,000 hectares of land for services rendered to the Transvaal Republic, and they have since retained this land. The community is relatively self-sufficient owing to its independent water supply, subsistence farming and maintaining their own roads; as a result, it has remained fairly insular.^[2]

References

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