Joubertina is a small town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, situated along the R62 Provincial Route in the Langkloof Valley, approximately 5 km west of Twee Riviere, near the border with the Western Cape Province.
The town of Joubertina is situated on the Wabooms River in the Langkloof, approximately 50 km northwest of Assegaaibos, 70 km southeast of Avontuur, and 213 km from Gqeberha (formerly known as Port Elizabeth).
Joubertina falls within the Kou-Kamma Local Municipality and the Sarah Baartman District Municipality.
The town has a station on the narrow-gauge Avontuur Railway.
History
Joubertina was founded and introduced into the Langkloof community in 1907. Having secured a portion of the farm Onzer, in between the villages of Krakeel and Twee Riviere (both founded in 1765), a property development was launched there under the initiative of the Dutch Reformed Church.
As the sale of erven around a newly erected church building gradually got underway in 1907, the future town was named in honour of W A Joubert, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Uniondale between 1878 and 1893.
