Kuboes is a town in Richtersveld Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Kuboes | |
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Coordinates: 28°26′49.2″S 16°59′20.76″E / 28.447000°S 16.9891000°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Northern Cape |
District | Namakwa |
Municipality | Richtersveld |
Area | |
• Total | 0.88 km2 (0.34 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 948 |
• Density | 1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 0.6% |
• Coloured | 95.5% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.2% |
• Other | 3.7% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Afrikaans | 96.5% |
• English | 1.3% |
• Other | 2.2% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
PO box | 8292 |
Kuboes was one of the first permanent settlements on the Richtersveld. The town grew around a Rhenish mission set up by revered Johan Hein, who began to preach to the nomadic population of the surrounding areas in 1844. A church was built in 1893, and eventually the itinerant population decided to set up in Kuboes itself.[2]
Kuboes is a centre of Nama culture, and the local school is claimed to be the only school in the world that teaches the Nama language.[2]
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