Country South Africa District John Taolo Gaetsewe Established 1912 Area code 053 | Province Northern Cape Municipality Gamagara Postal code (street) 8450 | |
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Olifantshoek is a town in John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Map of Olifantshoek, South Africa
Village 60 km north-west of Postmasburg and 80 km south-west of Kuruman. It developed from a police post and is administered by a village management board. The name is Afrikaans and means "elephants corner" or "elephants glen", referring to elephant skeletons found there. It may also be translated from Tswana "ditlou".
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Olifantshoek Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA