Mookgophong

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Mookgophong

| other_name = Naboomspruit

| pushpin_map = South Africa Limpopo#South Africa

| coordinates = {{coord|24|31|S|28|43|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = South Africa

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Limpopo

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Waterberg

| subdivision_type3 = Municipality

| subdivision_name3 = Modimolle–Mookgophong

| subdivision_type4 = Main Place

| established_title = Established

| established_date = 1907

| leader_party = ANC

| leader_title = Councillor

| area_footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/979001 |title = Main Place Mookgophong |work=Census 2011}}

| area_total_km2 = 27.18

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 24853

| population_as_of = 2011

| population_density_km2 = auto

| demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011)

| demographics1_footnotes =

| demographics1_title1 = Black African

| demographics1_info1 = 88.1%

| demographics1_title2 = Coloured

| demographics1_info2 = 0.4%

| demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian

| demographics1_info3 = 0.2%

| demographics1_title4 = White

| demographics1_info4 = 10.9%

| demographics1_title5 = Other

| demographics1_info5 = 0.5%

| demographics_type2 = First languages (2011)

| demographics2_footnotes =

| demographics2_title1 = Northern Sotho

| demographics2_info1 = 56.3%

| demographics2_title2 = Tsonga

| demographics2_info2 = 13.7%

| demographics2_title3 = Afrikaans

| demographics2_info3 = 10.9%

| demographics2_title4 = Sotho

| demographics2_info4 = 6.1%

| demographics2_title5 = Other

| demographics2_info5 = 12.9%

| timezone1 = SAST

| utc_offset1 = +2

| postal_code_type = Postal code (street)

| postal_code = 0560

| postal2_code_type = PO box

| postal2_code = 0560

| area_code_type = Area code

| area_code = 014

}}

Mookgophong, formerly known as Naboomspruit, is a town in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The town is located approximately 42 km north-east of Modimolle and 51 km south-west of Mokopane.

History

It was founded on the farm Vischgat in 1907 and administered by a health committee from 1919. The name Naboomspruit is Afrikaans but derived from Khoekhoen; ‘euphorbia tree stream’, after the Euphorbia ingens which grows there.{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/stream/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames/SaPlaceNames#page/n325/mode/2up/search/Naboomspruit|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=325}} The town was officially renamed Mookgophong on the 24 November 2006, by the South African government.[http://sagns.dac.gov.za/Public/OldPlaceNames.aspx?Contains=N Old place names] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208232958/http://sagns.dac.gov.za/Public/OldPlaceNames.aspx?Contains=N |date=2010-02-08 }}

References

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{{Waterberg District Municipality}}

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Category:Populated places in the Modimolle–Mookgophong Local Municipality

Category:Populated places established in 1907

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