Education =diploma in local government management (African National Congress(1994))
Area
[1]
• Total
16.9 km2 (6.5 sq mi)
Population
(2011)[1]
• Total
3,680 (Hofmeyr 326 Luxolweni 3,354)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
• Black African
80.3%
• Coloured
15.8%
• Indian/Asian
0.4%
• White
3.2%
• Other
0.2%
First languages (2011)
[1]
• Xhosa
78.3%
• Afrikaans
18.2%
• English
1.5%
• Other
2.0%
Time zone
UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
5930
PO box
5930
Area code
048
Hofmeyr is a small Karoo town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, 20 km west of the Bamboesberg mountain range. It lies 64 km north-east of Cradock at an altitude of 1,252 metres. According to the 2011 census, the population of Hofmeyr proper is about 326 persons and the neighbouring township of Luxolweni is about 3354. In former times it lay at the centre of a flourishing sheep-farming district and managed some salt pans 10 km to its west.
Founded in 1873, the town was initially named Maraisburg. To avoid confusion with the Gauteng area of Maraisburg it was renamed Hofmeyr in 1911 [2] in honour of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan),[3] a campaigner for the equal treatment of Afrikaans and English and a prominent figure in the Eerste Taalbeweging.
The Hofmeyr Skull, belonging to a 36,000 year old anatomically modern human, was found in 1952 in the dry wash of the Vlekpoort River just outside Hofmeyr.
^ abcdSum of the Main Places Hofmeyr and Luxolweni from Census 2011.
^"Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association". Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association: 24. 2006.
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