Kathu
Sign in to saveKathu is a town in South Africa, and the iron ore capital of the Northern Cape province. Its name means "town under the trees", after the Camel Thorn forest it is situated in. The phrase "the town under the trees" was coined by an engineer working in the town in the early-1990s as part of a tourist marketing drive, together with the accompanying graphic. It was intended to be a marketing slogan. The meaning of the word "Kathu" has anecdotically been attributed to a porridge brewed by the local population from the powder found in the pods of the Camel Thorn trees.
Key facts
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Cape
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- John Taolo Gaetsewe
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Gamagara
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 15.56
- Settlement.population_total
- 11510
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Racial makeup (2011)
- Settlement.demographics1_title1
- Black African
- Settlement.demographics1_info1
- 39.2%
- Settlement.demographics1_title2
- Coloured
- Settlement.demographics1_info2
- 21.7%
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Gamagara Local Municipality
- Elevation
- 1233
- Capital of
- Gamagara Local Municipality
- Dialing code
- 053
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- inception
- 1974-01-01
- postal code
- 8446
- Commons category
- Kathu
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Camel thorn tree forest
- Mining
- Recreation
- Kathu Archaeological Site Complex
- References
- External links
Kathu is a town in South Africa, and the iron ore capital of the Northern Cape province. Its name means "town under the trees", after the Camel Thorn forest it is situated in. The phrase "the town under the trees" was coined by an engineer working in the town in the early-1990s as part of a tourist marketing drive, together with the accompanying graphic. It was intended to be a marketing slogan. The meaning of the word "Kathu" has anecdotically been attributed to a porridge brewed by the local population from the powder found in the pods of the Camel Thorn trees.
Kathu was founded in the late-1960s or early-1970s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kathu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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