Kuboes
Place in Northern Cape, South Africa
28°26′49.2″S 16°59′20.76″E / 28.447000°S 16.9891000°E / -28.447000; 16.9891000 (2011)[1]
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Kuboes is a town in Richtersveld Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Kuboes was one of the first permanent settlements on the Richtersveld. The town grew around a Rhenish mission set up by revered Johan Hein, who began to preach to the nomadic population of the surrounding areas in 1844. A church was built in 1893, and eventually the itinerant population decided to set up in Kuboes itself.[2]
Kuboes is a centre of Nama culture, and the local school is claimed to be the only school in the world that teaches the Nama language.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d "Main Place Kuboes". Census 2011.
- ^ a b "Kuboes". Explore the Richtersveld. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
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