Louisvale is a town in
ZF Mgcawu District Municipality
The ZF Mgcawu District Municipality (known before 1 July 2013 as Siyanda) is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of ZF Mgcawu is Upington. The majority (76%) of its 236,783 people speak Afrikaans (2011 C ...
in the
Northern Cape
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province of
South Africa
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. It has been described as a "small, impoverished town" by the ''
Mail & Guardian
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'', and it briefly became notorious for the ''baby Tshepang'' case, regarding the rape of a nine-month-old baby in 2001.
The
Louisvale Pirates football team hails from this town.
References
Populated places in the Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality
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