Verkykerskop

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| name = Verkykerskop

| image_skyline = Verkykerskop Uitspanning.jpg

| image_caption = The “uitspanning”, Verkykerskop

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = South Africa

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Free State

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Thabo Mofutsanyane

| subdivision_type3 = Municipality

| subdivision_name3 = Phumelela

| subdivision_type4 = Main Place

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| leader_title = Councillor

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| postal2_code = 9882

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| area_code = 058

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Verkykerskop is a town in Phumelela Local Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa, located on the R722. The town is 40 km from Harrismith, just off the N3.{{cite web|title=Gigs you’ll dig to ring in New Year|url=http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/music/gigs-you-ll-dig-to-ring-in-new-year-1.1202223#.UjucYbyZ3Mg|publisher=IOL.co.za|access-date=20 September 2013}}

Village some 35 km east-south-east of Warden and 40 km south-west of Memel. Afrikaans for 'spy hill', literally 'farlooker's hill', the name appears to have been taken over from Tafelkop, a hill 2,153 m high to the south-west of it.{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=457}}

Sitting on a hill on the Free State side of the border with KwaZulu-Natal, it is described as a tiny village with fewer than 20 residents in town, and a few hundred more living in surrounding villages.{{cite web|title=Verkykerskop: Where Sheep may safely graze|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2013-09-20-00-verkykerskop-where-sheep-may-safely-graze|publisher=Mail & Guardian|access-date=20 September 2013}} It is known for having one of the lowest crime levels in South Africa.