Lenyenye
Lenyenye | |
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Lenyenye Lenyenye shown within Limpopo | |
Coordinates: 23°58′19″S 30°16′08″E / 23.972°S 30.269°ECoordinates: 23°58′19″S 30°16′08″E / 23.972°S 30.269°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Limpopo |
District | Mopani |
Municipality | Greater Tzaneen |
Area[1] | |
• Total | 8.81 km2 (3.40 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 12,099 |
• Density | 1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011)[1] | |
• Black African | 99.2% |
• Coloured | 0.2% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
• White | 0.1% |
• Other | 0.1% |
First languages (2011)[1] | |
• Northern Sotho | 87.8% |
• Sotho | 3.8% |
• Tsonga | 1.7% |
• Zulu | 1.4% |
• Other | 5.2% |
Postal code (street) | 0857 |
PO box | 0857 |
Area code | 015 |
Lenyenye is a town in Mopani District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Lenyenye is best known as the place where Mamphela Ramphele was banished to under the apartheid regime and lived during the period 1977 - 1984.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Main Place Lenyenye". Census 2011.
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