Danielskuil Accommodation

Danielskuil is a small central town, situated below the Kuruman Hills, about 160 km northwest of Kimberley and 90km south of Kuruman. The Tswana people occupied the land on which it is built before it became home to the Griqua people. Other sources call it Koup and Tlakalatlou (which is seTswana for elephants reed) as its name. On passing through the town in 1816, missionary James Read named the place Fraaifontein which means Pretty Fountain.

The name Danielskuil, Daniels Den, was first found in documents by the missionary, Campbell, in 1820. The name derives from a natural crater in a limestone formation, reminding observers of the Biblical story of Daniel. There was a local legend that early Griqua inhabitants used this sinkhole or crater as a prison but historians have found no evidence supporting the legend. Though small, the town thrives on limestone quarrying, diamond mining and the large farming community.

The sinkhole which was named Boesmansgat is a unique natural sinkhole, which is renowned as the second deepest and largest of its kind in the world and can be found on the farm Mount Carmel. The British Fort was built during the Anglo-Boer War and is on a hillock overlooking the village.