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Potchefstroom is an industrial, service and agricultural growth point of North West province. Industries include steel, food, and chemical processing. The chicken industry is important, and companies around the city include Chubby Chick, Serfontein Poultry, Haagner's Poultry, Crown Chicken and Highveld Egg Cooperative.
Single storey, square form. Pitched corrugated iron roofsheeting. Claybricks wall, plastered with cl Type of site: House Current use: House. The Anglican church, built in 1890-91, in the Neo-Gothic style, was the first building in Potchefstroom resembling this historic Neo-Gothic style. The parish in Potchefstroom is one of the oldest in the ...
Potgieter subsequently went on to found Potchefstroom (named after him), [1] by the banks of the Mooi River, and served as its first head of state of the Potchefstroom Republic between 1840 and 1845. Later, in 1845, he also founded Ohrigstad (originally named Andries-Ohrigstad after Potgieter himself and George Ohrig ) as a trading station.
The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (abbreviated as PU for CHE) was a South African university located in Potchefstroom. Instruction was mainly in Afrikaans . In 2004, the university was merged with other institutions to create the North-West University .
Tlokwe Local Municipality (before February 2007, Potchefstroom Local Municipality) was a local municipality in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The seat was Potchefstroom. After the municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger JB Marks Local Municipality.
The first school on the land was for the children interned in the camp. On 31 January 1905, accompanied by the band of the Border Regiment, Sir Richard Solomon, Lt-Governor of Transvaal opened Potchefstroom College upon instruction from the then Education Department, the school was renamed Potchefstroom High School for Boys.
Potchefstroom Gimnasium, however, offered Afrikaans mother tongue instruction from 1915/6 [18] It is in this context that the establishment of Potchefstroom Volkskool, like Heidelberg Volkskool and other Volkskool schools, should be seen. On 19 April 1922 the Afrikaanse Medium Hoërskool opened inside a small church in Potchefstroom. Originally ...
Potchefstroom Theological School This page was last edited on 30 June 2024, at 14:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...