Matsap farm

Title

Matsap farm

Alternative Title

Matzap

Location Type

farm

Farm Number

81

Nearby Town

Postmasburg

District Municipality

Pixley ka Seme

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Local Municipality

Siyancuma

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Magistrate District

Hay

Province

Northern Cape

Description

North-west of Postmasburg

Toponomy

In Kora, the name means "salt pan" (G. S. Nienaber; P. E. Raper, Toponymica Hottentotica, vol. 2, page 818).

Historical Ownership

In 1881, this farm was recorded as owned by Captain Nicolaas Waterboer (Cape of Good Hope, Return of Farms and Lands granted in Griqualand West, Cape Town 1881, p. 30).

Latitude

-28.659

Longitude

22.7832