Dekar

Location of Dekar

D'Kar is a village in Ghanzi District of Botswana. It is located 40 km to the east of the district capital, Ghanzi. The population was 943 in 2001 census. It was first a farm of someone, but then evolved into a rural village, most of the village is owned by the church, but this village also houses a shop and a garage. A tar road runs 1 km from it, but unfortunately there is no tar road in the village itself, only a gravel road. This small village also houses Kuru, a bushman iniative. It has a shop were handcrafted Bushman articles can be bought. The money is then used to help the little people of the Kalahari. It also owns a game farm which is about 15 to 20 km outside D'Kar, on the road to Ghanzi. This village consists mainly of bushmen. It houses a school and also a clinic. ^[1]

References

1. ^ "Distribution of population by sex by villages and their associated localities: 2001 population and housing census". Archived from the original on 2007-11-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20071124145523/http://www.cso.gov.bw/html/census/dist80_81.html. Retrieved 2007-12-11. 

Coordinates: 21°32′S 21°56′E / 21.533°S 21.933°E / -21.533; 21.933