Pudimoe or Pudumong is a town in
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality (formerly Bophirima District Municipality) is one of the 4 districts of North West province of South Africa. The seat of Mompati District is Vryburg. The majority of its 439,637 people speak Setswana ...
in the
North West
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province of
South Africa
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.
The town is located about north of
Taung
Taung is a small town situated in the North West Province of South Africa. The name means ''place of the lion'' and was named after Tau, the King of the Barolong. ''Tau'' is the Tswana word for lion.
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and south-west of
Schweizer-Reneke. The name, derived from the
Tswana language
Tswana, also known by its native name , and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa by about 8.2 million people. It belongs to the Bantu language family within the Sotho-Tswana branch of Zon ...
, means “place of
wildebeest
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”. It formerly bore the adapted name Pudimoe, which is still in use at the town’s train station.
References
Sqitoe, Lere, Summer, Gee, Junior, Jay J, DiepKlerk, Peekay, KC, and Nino are gonna make an improvement on Pudimoe's economy. This small town is about to experience some real changes.
Populated places in the Greater Taung Local Municipality
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