Saulspoort

Saulspoort
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Coordinates: 25°09′19″S 27°10′17″E
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
District	Bojanala
Municipality	Moses Kotane
Area [1]
• Total	14.76 km^2 (5.70 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	11,220
• Density	760/km^2 (2,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	99.5%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.1%
• Other	0.3%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Tswana	86.4%
• English	3.3%
• Zulu	2.1%
• S. Ndebele	1.5%
• Other	6.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	0318
PO box	0318

Saulspoort (also known as Moruleng)^[2] is a village in South Africa, at the northern foot of the Pilanesberg, about 65 km north of Rustenburg. It was named after a former baKgatla chief, Tsheole, called Saul by the early settlers.^[3]

It was established when Henri Gonin, a Swiss missionary with the Dutch Reformed Church preaching to the baKgatla tribe, moved to Saulspoort farm, which was owned by the later president Paul Kruger; Kruger eventually sold the farm to Gonin in 1869.^[4] In 1895 the baKgatla purchased most of Saulspoort from Gonin.^[5]

References

1. "Main Place Saulspoort". Census 2011.
2. "Pilane and Another v Pheto and Others". Southern African Legal Information Institute. Moruleng and Saulspoort mean the same village and the names are frequently used interchangeably…
3. Raper, Peter E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Internet Archive. p. 399. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
4. Daniel J. Theron (31 March 2014). Faith, Hope and Determination. Author House. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-4918-3105-2.
5. Mbenga, Bernard; Morton, Fred (24 April 1997). "The Missionary as Land Broker". South African Historical Journal (36). Africana Periodical Literature bibliographic database: 145–167. doi:10.1080/02582479708671273. Retrieved 29 August 2014.