Delmas is a small maize farming town situated at the intersection of the R50, R42, and R555 roads in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The town is located about 73 km south-east of Pretoria and 19 km north-east of Springs in Gauteng province.
The town is part of the Victor Khanye Local Municipality in the Nkangala District of Mpumalanga.
Delmas was laid out in 1907 on the farm Witklip and has been administered by a town council since 1965.
The town’s name was given by the Frenchman Frank Campbell Dumat, former owner of Witklip, after his grandfather’s farm in France.
Frank Campbell Dumat originally laid out the town with 192 residential stands, 48 4 ha small holdings and 138 ha of commonage but by 1909 the governments added a further 5,500 ha to the town. This would be divided into 85 small holdings of around 64 ha.
Delmas lies in what is known as Cosmos Country, the south western area of Mpumalanga that is at the centre of the country’s coal mining.
Delmas is home to the township, Bothibelong. A newer location is named Botleng, which means “place of beauty” in Sotho.
