Jansenville

Jansenville is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Settlement.name: Jansenville
Settlement.image_skyline: Dutch Reformed Church Jansenville-001.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Dutch Reformed Church, Jansenville
Settlement.pushpin_map: South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa#Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Eastern Cape
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Sarah Baartman
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3

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Jansenville is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

The town is on the Sundays River, 87 km south of Graaff-Reinet. Laid out on the farm Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a municipality in 1881. Said to have been named after General Jan Willem Janssens (1762-1838), the last Batavian Governor of the Cape.