Semi-detached duplex style old house, Okiep, Namaqualand, Northern Cape
O'Kiep, Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa. Okiep is a very small town in the dry Northern Cape province of South Africa. In the 1870s it was reported to have the richest copper mine in the world. The town is on the site of a spring which was known in the language of the Nama people as U-gieb. From "U-gieb" the town got its original name O'okiep which was changed to O'kiep - the name it has kept to this day. It is also the oldest mining town in South Africa where copper was first discovered and mined in 1855. The first people to mine in O'kiep were Cornish miners bringing with them tin mining expertise from Cornwall.
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Location: Okiep, Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa
Photo credit: © Blaize Pascall / Alamy / Afripics
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