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) | |
• 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", is a town in Gert Sibande District Municipality near Volksrust in the outskirts of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town had about 1,450 households in 2014. 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.