# Delportshoop

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{{Use South African English|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Delportshoop
| pushpin_map             = South Africa Northern Cape#South Africa
| coordinates             = {{coord|28.416667|S|24.3|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)
| subdivision_type1       = Province
| subdivision_name1       = [Northern Cape](/source/Northern_Cape)
| subdivision_type2       = District
| subdivision_name2       = [Frances Baard](/source/Frances_Baard_District_Municipality)
| subdivision_type3       = Municipality
| subdivision_name3       = [Dikgatlong](/source/Dikgatlong_Local_Municipality)
| subdivision_type4       = Main Place
| established_title       = Established
| established_date        = 1871
| leader_title            = Councillor
| area_footnotes          = <ref name=census2011>Sum of the Main Places [http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/384005 Delportshoop] and [http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/384006 Tidimalo] from Census 2011.</ref>
| area_total_km2          = 67.8
| population_footnotes    = <ref name=census2011 />
| population_total        = 10346
| population_as_of        = 2011
| population_density_km2  = auto
<!-- demographics (section 1) -->
| demographics_type1      = Racial makeup (2011)
| demographics1_footnotes = <ref name=census2011 />
| demographics1_title1    = [Black African](/source/Bantu_peoples_of_South_Africa)
| demographics1_info1     = 30.9%
| demographics1_title2    = [Coloured](/source/Coloureds)
| demographics1_info2     = 33.4%
| demographics1_title3    = [Indian](/source/Indian_South_African)/[Asian](/source/Asian_South_African)
| demographics1_info3     = 1.0%
| demographics1_title4    = [White](/source/White_South_African)
| demographics1_info4     = 2.9%
| demographics1_title5    = Other
| demographics1_info5     = 31.9%
<!-- demographics (section 2) -->
| demographics_type2      = [First language](/source/First_language)s (2011)
| demographics2_footnotes = <ref name=census2011 />
| demographics2_title1    = [Tswana](/source/Tswana_language)
| demographics2_info1     = 49.4%
| demographics2_title2    = [Afrikaans](/source/Afrikaans)
| demographics2_info2     = 43.0%
| demographics2_title3    = [English](/source/English_language)
| demographics2_info3     = 1.9%
| demographics2_title4    = [Zulu](/source/Zulu_language)
| demographics2_info4     = 1.2%
| demographics2_title5    = Other
| demographics2_info5     = 4.6%
<!-- blank fields (section 2) -->
<!-- Other information -->
| timezone1               = [SAST](/source/South_African_Standard_Time)
| utc_offset1             = +2
| postal_code_type        = [Postal code](/source/List_of_postal_codes_in_South_Africa) (street)
| postal_code             = 8377
| postal2_code_type       = [PO box](/source/Post-office_box)
| postal2_code            = 8377
| area_code_type          = [Area code](/source/Telephone_numbers_in_South_Africa)
| area_code               = 053
}}
'''Delportshoop''' is a town in  [Frances Baard District Municipality](/source/Frances_Baard_District_Municipality) in the [Northern Cape](/source/Northern_Cape) Province of [South Africa](/source/South_Africa). It lies next to the [Vaal River](/source/Vaal_River). The [Harts River](/source/Harts_River) runs by closely.

==Early settlement==

It developed from a diamond-diggers’ camp. The public diggings were proclaimed in November 1871, a village management board was instituted in 1931, and municipal status attained in 1970.<ref name=dsapn/>

==Name==

Delportshoop was originally called  “Thomas Hope”, but later the name was changed to “Delport’s Hope” . The first Prosecutor was  P.J. Marais. He farmed on Langberg in the region. Marais were told a story that the first diamond was find by a young man whose surname was Delport. The diamond diggers then changed  it to  Delport’s Hope. Later the ‘’Hope’’, became ‘’Hoop’’.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.kimberley.org.za/today-kimberleys-history-13-december/  |title=Delportshoop| accessdate=31 May 2018}}</ref>
 
==Schools==

•	Delportshoop Primary School <ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.schools4sa.co.za/school-profile/delportshoop-primere-skool/ |title= Delportshoop Primêre Skool |accessdate=31 May 2018}}</ref>

•	Dikgatlong Secondary School <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schools4sa.co.za/school-profile/dikgatlong-secondary-school/ |title= Dikgatlong Secondary School|accessdate=31 May 2018}}</ref>

•	Francis Mohapanele Primary School<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schools4sa.co.za/school-profile/francis-mohapanele-primary-school/ |title= Francis Mohapanele Primary School |accessdate=31 May 2018}}</ref>

•	Delportshoop High School<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.schools4sa.co.za/school-profile/hoerskool-delportshoop/ |title=Hoërskool Delportshoop| accessdate=31 May 2018}}</ref> Children from [Ulco](/source/Ulco%2C_Northern_Cape), the mining community nearby attend this school

==Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme==

The [Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme](/source/Vaalharts_Irrigation_Scheme) is a very large water irrigation scheme. This is run out of Delportshoop.

==Tswana names ==

Two Tswana names for Delportshoop are encountered, namely Tsineng, also spelt Tsining, Tsening, Tsenin and Tsoneng, and Dikgathlong, also spelt Dekhath-long, Dekatlong, Dekgathlong, Dikgatlhong, Makgatlhanong, Likatlong and Likhat-lhong. The latter name means ‘meeting-place’, referring to the confluence of the Vaal and Harts rivers there. Other commonly used Setswana names are Motse Moshate and Shate. <ref name=dsapn>{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=134}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Geographic Location
|Centre    = Delportshoop
|North     = [Warrenton](/source/Warrenton%2C_Northern_Cape)
|Northeast = 
|Northwest = 
|East      = [Windsorton](/source/Windsorton)
|Southeast = [Barkly West](/source/Barkly_West), [Kimberley](/source/Kimberley%2C_Northern_Cape)
|South     = [Schmidtsdrift](/source/Schmidtsdrift)
|Southwest = [Douglas](/source/Douglas%2C_Northern_Cape)
|West      = [Lime Acres](/source/Lime_Acres)
}}

{{Frances Baard District Municipality}}
{{Authority control}}

Category:Populated places in the Dikgatlong Local Municipality
Category:Populated places established in 1871
Category:Vaal River
Category:1871 establishments in the Cape Colony

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