Petrusville is a village in the eastern
Karoo
The Karoo ( ; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ''ǃ’Aukarob'' "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its ext ...
region of
South Africa, located in the
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi T ...
province.
It is 45 km north-east of
Philipstown, 56 km south-east of
Kraankuil and 10 km south of the
Orange River. Founded about 1877 on the farm Rhenosterfontein and named after Petrus Jacobus van der Walt who had bought it in 1810 and donated a portion of it to the
Dutch Reformed Church in 1822.
References
Populated places in the Renosterberg Local Municipality
Populated places established in 1877
1877 establishments in the Cape Colony
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