{{Infobox settlement | name = Kranshoek | pushpin_map = South Africa Western Cape#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|34|05|28|S|23|18|23|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[South Africa]] | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = [[Western Cape]] | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = [[Garden Route District Municipality|Garden Route]] | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = [[Bitou Local Municipality|Bitou]] | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = <ref name="census2011">{{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/179010 |title = Main Place Kranshoek |work=Census 2011}} </ref> | area_total_km2 = 12.33 | elevation_m = 9 | population_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | population_total = 5597 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto <!-- demographics (section 1) --> | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics1_title1 = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]] | demographics1_info1 = 9.0% | demographics1_title2 = [[Coloureds|Coloured]] | demographics1_info2 = 53.4% | demographics1_title3 = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]] | demographics1_info3 = 1.0% | demographics1_title4 = [[White South African|White]] | demographics1_info4 = 0.5% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 36.1% <!-- demographics (section 2) --> | demographics_type2 = [[First language]]s (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics2_title1 = [[Afrikaans]] | demographics2_info1 = 87.9% | demographics2_title2 = [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] | demographics2_info2 = 4.1% | demographics2_title3 = [[South African English|English]] | demographics2_info3 = 3.9% | demographics2_title4 = [[Tswana language|Tswana]] | demographics2_info4 = 1.0% | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 3.1% <!-- blank fields (section 2) --> <!-- Other information --> | timezone1 = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]] | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street) | postal_code = | postal2_code_type = [[Post-office box|PO box]] | postal2_code = 6605 | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]] }} '''Kranshoek''' is a settlement in [[Garden Route District Municipality]] in the [[Western Cape]] province of [[South Africa]].
Kranshoek was founded in the early years of the 20th century by a group of [[Griqua people|Griqua]] trekkers under the leadership of Abraham le Fleur who had been displaced from their land in [[Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal|Kokstad]].<ref name="Donald2008">{{cite book|author=David Donald|title=Call on the Wind|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781770093607|url-access=registration|date=2008-09-01|publisher=Jacana Media|isbn=978-1-77009-360-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781770093607/page/118 118]}}</ref> Le Fleur also founded the Griqua National Conference in 1904 and the Griqua Independent Church.<ref name=griqid1>{{cite web|title=Griqua identity|url=http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/asl/griquaid.pdf|publisher=UCT Libraries|accessdate=15 September 2014|quote=He spent his life campaigning for the restitution of Griqua land lost when the British colonial authorities annexed Griqualand East. […] This he did by establishing the Griqua Independent Church, as a counter to the European-controlled mission churches, launched over the Easter weekend in 1920 […] He also founded the Griqua National Conference in 1904, which became the official mouthpiece of the Griqua people[…]}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A local monument, erected in 1942, celebrates the early Griqua pioneers.<ref name=griqid2>{{cite web|title=Griqua identity|url=http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/asl/griquaid.pdf|publisher=UCT Libraries|accessdate=15 September 2014|quote=Significant events in the Griqua history are commemorated annually by way of special people‟s days, such as the birthday of Paramount Chief AAS le Fleur and the celebration of the unveiling of a monument erected in honour of the early Griqua pioneers at Kranshoek in 1942…}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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{{Eden District Municipality}}
[[Category:Populated places in the Bitou Local Municipality]]