History of Merweville
- Province: Western Cape
- Karoo
- Coordinates:32°40′S 21°31′E
- Area:32.59 km2
- Municipality: Beaufort West
The postcode for Merweville is 6940 (Boxes only)
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Things to do and see in Merweville
- Dankfees held in May 084 962 2725 /023 501 4061 This is a carnivore’s delight, a festival for meat lovers. There are braais, potjies and pies.
- Blounek pass
- The old church was built around 1906, the ceiling beams are said to have come from a shipwreck and the organ came from Aberdeen in Scotland.
- The “Englishman’s grave: Lieutenant Walter Olifant Arnot was in fact Australian but he was with the British in the Boer War, he committed suicide after returning from Sutherland in April 1902. It is said that he regretted the senseless killings of innocent black folk caught up in the white man’s war. Local people have always tended to his grave.
WEATHER IN MERWEVILLE TODAY
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Useful Numbers in Merweville
- Police: 023501 4005
- Municipality; 023 414 8100/ 023 414 8101 / 8141
- Traffic department:023 414 8166
- Fire: 10177 / 023-414 8176
- Water:
- Electricity: 023 414 8174
- Ambulance: 10177
- Post office; 023 501 4002
- Library: Mimosa Library Beaufort West- 023 414 8158
- Closest hospital; Prince Albert hospital; 023 5411300
- Clinic– 023 501 4026
- Pharmacy;Nuweveld Apteekl. 023-4152061
- SPCA: (072) 847-7312/ (072) 847-7312
- Schools
: Laerskool Merweville Primary School-023 501 4003
Merweville Boarding School-023 501 4003
Kleuterland Pre-Primary School-023 414 4252