TOURIST INFORMATION

Hopetown Municipality

Church Street, Hopetown, 8750

Tel 053 203 0008

Hopetown Information

(Including Belmont and Witput)

On 18 February 1854 a town was laid out with a Dutch Reformed Church - a rough frontier-type building made of mud and manure. The origin of the name Hopetown is odd. It is said the widow of the first owner of the farm, De Kalk, wore a small anchor.

A servant was told it represented hope and made an imitation from tin which was nailed to the farm entrance. In 1866 a diamond, 'Eureka', was found and, in 1868, on the farm Zandfontein, the 83,5 carat 'Star of South Africa' diamond was discovered. Today, Hopetown is a farming town.

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