Kasouga or Kasuka is a small village in
Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is one of the provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha.
The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in ...
province of
South Africa.
Settlement some 10 km north-east of
Kenton-on-Sea, near the mouth of the
Kasuka River. The name is derived from
Khoekhoen and means 'place of many
leopard
The leopard (''Panthera pardus'') is one of the five extant species in the genus '' Panthera'', a member of the cat family, Felidae. It occurs in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa, in some parts of Western and Central Asia, Southern Russia, a ...
s'. The river name "Kasuka" is a
Xhosa adaptation of the word, and has the same meaning.
References
{{Sarah Baartman District Municipality
Populated places in the Ndlambe Local Municipality