Klerksdorp
A gold-and-agriculture town on the N12 — a functional stop on the Joburg–Kimberley corridor, not a destination.
Trip Role
Ideal stay
Best for
Our take
A useful N12 stop with a war-history museum — provision and move on, unless the camp records are on your list.
A useful N12 stop with a war-history museum — provision and move on, unless the camp records are on your list.
- Trip Role
- Quick Stop
- Ideal Stay
- A stop
- Best For
- N12 road-trippers, Boer War researchers.
- Skip If
- Travellers seeking a destination.
- Go If
- You're driving the N12 and need a stop, or you're researching the Boer War concentration camps.
- Worth Extra Drive
- 0 min
Why go
A gold-rush and agriculture town on the N12 between Joburg and Kimberley. Klerksdorp is, for travellers, a fuel-and-food stop on the long drive south — a proper city with a working gold economy, a historic church square, and the Klerksdorp Museum in the old gaol. It's the honest 'useful stop, not a stay' category: provision, see the museum if you're a Boer War reader (it holds the concentration-camp records), and push on to the Northern Cape.
What we love
The museum's concentration-camp records — important and rarely visited; the working-town feel.
What to know
The museum holds the records of the Klerksdorp concentration camp — sobering and historically significant. The N12 is the Joburg–Kimberley route; Klerksdorp is the main stop.
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