Polokwane

Polokwane is a metropolis in the South African province of Limpopo. It is positioned in the municipality Polokwane within the district of Capricorn and is the capital of the province of Limpopo. The 1312 meters above sea degree mendacity town on the primary course to the north towards Zimbabwe changed into based in 1886 through Voortrekkern and named after the General Peter Jacobus Piet Joubert Pietersburg. During the Second Boer War, the metropolis changed into the capital of the Boer Republic Transvaal.

In 1901, the metropolis becomes conquered by the British. Pietersburg experienced for the reason that 1960 a robust industrialization, which at this time 5 factories emerged. The Industrial Development Corporation constructed in 1966 within the city an entire industrial complicated, which consisted of 12 gadgets. In the framework of the border industries policy for the agreement of production facilities on the brink of the fatherland, which became then operated, he became called a manufacturing unit nest. Next door, a township was built for the desired exertions.