Gouda is a settlement in

Cape Winelands District Municipality The Cape Winelands District Municipality, formerly the Boland District Municipality, is a district municipality located in the Boland region of the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2011, it had a population of 787,490. The largest to ...

in the

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province of

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. The town lies some 38km south of Porterville, 14km west of

Tulbagh Tulbagh, named after Dutch Cape Colony Governor Ryk Tulbagh, is a town located in the "Land van Waveren" mountain basin (also known as the Tulbagh basin), in the Winelands of the Western Cape, South Africa. The basin is fringed on three side ...

and 61km north-west of

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. Prior to 1929, it was known as Porterville Road. Of

Khoekhoen Khoekhoen (singular Khoekhoe) (or Khoikhoi in the former orthography; formerly also '' Hottentots''"Hottentot, n. and adj." ''OED Online'', Oxford University Press, March 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/88829. Accessed 13 May 2018. Citing G. S. ...

origin, the name ''Gouda'' is said to mean ‘antelope’. Another possible translation is ‘honey path’, ‘honey defile’. It is unrelated to the Dutch city of the same name. Notable people living in Gouda is Seeff Properties real estate agent, Jaymor Titus. The 138 MW Gouda Wind Farm, opened in September 2015, is situated just outside the town.

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{{Cape Winelands District Municipality Populated places in the Drakenstein Local Municipality