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| name = Kenhardt | image_skyline = Kenhardt Farm.jpg | image_caption = Farm in the Kenhardt area. | pushpin_map = South Africa Northern Cape#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|29|21|00|S|21|09|00|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = South Africa | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Northern Cape | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = ZF Mgcawu | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = Kai !Garib | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | established_date = 1868 | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = [1] | area_total_km2 = 159.35 | population_footnotes = [1] | population_total = 4843 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = [1] | demographics1_title1 = Black African | demographics1_info1 = 1.9% | demographics1_title2 = Coloured | demographics1_info2 = 92.2% | demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian | demographics1_info3 = 1.1% | demographics1_title4 = White | demographics1_info4 = 4.3% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 0.5% | demographics_type2 = First languages (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = [1] | demographics2_title1 = Afrikaans | demographics2_info1 = 96.5% | demographics2_title2 = | demographics2_info2 = | demographics2_title3 = | demographics2_info3 = | demographics2_title4 = | demographics2_info4 = | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 3.5% | timezone1 = SAST | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code (street) | postal_code = 8900 | postal2_code_type = PO box | postal2_code = 8900 | area_code_type = Area code | area_code = 054 }} Kenhardt (founded 1868) is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. This little town is about 120 km from Upington, the largest town in the area. HistoryOn 27 December 1868, special magistrate Maximillian Jackson with a police contingent, was sent to act against the Griquas in the area. The Griqua's anti-colonial resistance had erupted into an open conflict. Jackson arrived in Kenhardt and set up camp under a giant camelthorn tree.[2] This has been for a long time the most remote settlement in the North-Western Cape. With time the town developed from under this tree, becoming a municipality in 1909. The Hartbees River, with its many sweet thorn trees, provides a green belt irrigated by the Rooiberg Dam. Kenhardt is famous for being at the heart of the Dorper sheep-farming area. GeographyThis region contains very little vegetation, primarily very low shrubs and yellow grass among a rocky desert kind of landscape. If you travel south from Kenhardt towards Brandvlei, you will pass through a huge landscape of nothingness for the next 200 km and more. During the seasons many birds flock to the pans, when they contain water, after some rainfall. Temperature above 40 °C is not uncommon. Activities
Places of interest
This tree is about 500–600 years old. It is under this tree which Magistrate Jackson set up his camp in 1868.
The old library was built in 1897, and it was used until 1977. In 1978 it was declared a national monument, currently it is used by Sanlam as their office.[3]
A vast dry pan on which Sir Malcolm Campbell tried, in Bluebird 1, to set a new world land-speed record in 1929.[4] See also
References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/378021 |title = Main Place Kenhardt |work=Census 2011}} {{refbegin}}{{refend}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.northerncape.org.za/getting_around/towns/Kenhardt/|title=Kenhardt - 115km south of Upington on the R27|accessdate=2009-02-10}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.greenkalahari.com/kenhardt.html|title=Green Kalahari Accommodation Kenhardt|accessdate=2009-02-10}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bluebirdteamracing.net/bluebirdsupportersclub/peo/mc.html |title=Bluebird Supporters Club — Malcolm Campbell |accessdate=2009-02-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511114946/http://www.bluebirdteamracing.net/bluebirdsupportersclub/peo/mc.html |archivedate=2009-05-11 |df= }} External links{{commons category}}
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