Daniëlskuil is a town in ZF Mgcawu District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

It takes its name from a cone-shaped depression 6 metres (20 ft) deep in the dolomitic limestone; with a domed covering, reminiscent of the biblical ‘Daniel in the lions' den’ (Afrikaans: kuil, ‘hole’, ‘pit’).

The Griqua leader Adam Kok is said to have used this depression as a prison, and to also have kept snakes in it.

[2][3] During the Anglo Boer war (1899-1902) the British army built and used a blockhouse fort, which overlooks the town from the north.

[5] The Tswana name of Danielskuil is Tlaka le Tlou or Tlaka-lo-Tlou, ‘elephant reed’.