Joubertina | |
Pushpin Map: | South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa |
Coordinates: | -33.825°N 23.8578°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Cape |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Sarah Baartman |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Kou-Kamma |
Subdivision Type4: | Main Place |
Established Title: | Established |
Leader Title: | Councillor |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 8.20 |
Population Total: | 5752 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Racial makeup (2011) |
Demographics1 Title1: | Black African |
Demographics1 Info1: | 16.8% |
Demographics1 Title2: | Coloured |
Demographics1 Info2: | 73.5% |
Demographics1 Title3: | Indian/Asian |
Demographics1 Info3: | 0.3% |
Demographics1 Title4: | White |
Demographics1 Info4: | 9.0% |
Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
Demographics1 Info5: | 0.5% |
Demographics Type2: | First languages (2011) |
Demographics2 Title1: | Afrikaans |
Demographics2 Info1: | 87.6% |
Demographics2 Title2: | Xhosa |
Demographics2 Info2: | 6.4% |
Demographics2 Title3: | English |
Demographics2 Info3: | 3.2% |
Demographics2 Title5: | Other |
Demographics2 Info5: | 2.9% |
Timezone1: | SAST |
Utc Offset1: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code (street) |
Postal Code: | 6410 |
Postal2 Code Type: | PO box |
Postal2 Code: | 6410 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 042 |
Joubertina is a small town in the Kou-Kamma Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Town on the Wabooms River in the Langkloof, some 50 km north-west of Assegaaibos, 70 km south-east of Avontuur and 213 km from Port Elizabeth. Joubertina was founded and introduced into the Langkloof community in 1907. Having secured a portion of the farm Onzer, in between the villages of Krakeel and Twee Riviere (both founded in 1765), a property development was launched there under the initiative of the Dutch Reformed Church. As the sale of erven around a newly erected church building gradually got underway in 1907, the future town was named in honour of W A Joubert, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Uniondale between 1878 and 1893.[2]
Joubertina is located on the R62 road in the Langkloof valley, approximately 5 km west of Twee Riviere, near the western extreme of the Eastern Cape.
The town has a station on the narrow gauge Avontuur Railway.