Daggakraal | |
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  Daggakraal  Daggakraal | |
| Coordinates: 27°07′01″S 29°58′01″E / 27.117°S 29.967°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Mpumalanga |
| District | Gert Sibande |
| Municipality | Pixley Ka Seme |
| Area | |
• Total | 64.43 km2 (24.88 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 17,378 |
| • Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 99.3% |
| • Coloured | 0.1% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
| • White | 0.1% |
| • Other | 0.1% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Zulu | 90.7% |
| • Swazi | 4.0% |
| • Sotho | 2.5% |
| • Other | 2.8% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Daggakraal, "one of South Africa's most impoverished and isolated communities with plenty of unmined mineral resources",[2] is a town in Gert Sibande District Municipality near Volksrust in the outskirts of Mpumalanga province, South Africa.[3] The town had about 1,450 households in 2014.[4] There is no means of production a number of failed state projects aimed at uplifting people.
Daggakraal area code 2492 has two clinics namely Sinqobile CHC in Daggakraal no 3 and Daggakraal CHC in Sinqobile A. There are four primary schools namely Sizenzele Primary School, Hambani Primary School, Daggakraal Primary School and Ethembeni Primary School and two high schools are Nalithuba Secondary School and Seme Secondary School named after ANC founder Dr. Pixley Ka Isaka Seme.
- ^ a b c d "Main Place Daggakraal". Census 2011.
- ^ Yende, Sizwe Sama (12 January 2004). "Struggle hero honoured". News24. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ "Pixley Ka Seme Local Municipality". Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ Yende, Sizwe Sama (5 June 2014). "Going home 20 years later: Everything–and nothing–changes". News24. Retrieved 15 May 2017.