Rooiberg

Rooiberg is a town in Waterberg District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

Rooiberg
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Coordinates: 24.776°S 27.738°E / -24.776; 27.738
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Waterberg
Municipality	Thabazimbi
Area [1]
• Total	43.98 km2 (16.98 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	2,310
• Density	53/km2 (140/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	88.4%
• Coloured	0.4%
• Indian/Asian	0.2%
• White	10.8%
• Other	0.2%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Tswana	65.1%
• Afrikaans	10.3%
• Northern Sotho	9.0%
• Tsonga	4.5%
• Other	11.0%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	0500
Area code	014

Town, archaeological site and tin-mining area, 50 km west-north-west of Warmbad, at the conjunction of the Springbok Flats with the Waterberg Plateau. The name is Afrikaans for ‘red mountain’.^[2]