Laersdrif

Laersdrif
NG stone church at Laersdrif
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Coordinates: 25°21′58″S 29°51′25″E / 25.366°S 29.857°E / -25.366; 29.857Coordinates: 25°21′58″S 29°51′25″E / 25.366°S 29.857°E / -25.366; 29.857
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Sekhukhune
Municipality	Elias Motsoaledi
Established	1907
Area [1]
• Total	4.06 km2 (1.57 sq mi)
Elevation	1,474 m (4,836 ft)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	2,218
• Density	550/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	96.1%
• Coloured	0.9%
• Indian/Asian	0.5%
• White	2.6%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Northern Sotho	49.1%
• S. Ndebele	38.0%
• Zulu	4.7%
• Afrikaans	3.6%
• Other	4.6%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	1065
PO box	1065
Area code	013

Laersdrif (formerly Delagersdrift) is a small settlement in Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is situated on the Laersdrifspruit, a tributary of the upper Steelpoort River, 27 km southwest of Roossenekal, 72 km northeast of Middelburg and 11 km north east of .

It was founded in 1907 on the farms Swartkoppies and De Lagersdrift, and proclaimed a township in July 1953. It takes its name from the latter farm, which in turn was named after a ford (Afrikaans: drif, Dutch: drift) at which a Boer commando laagered during the of 1882; a laager is laer in Afrikaans.^[2]

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