Northam is a town in the Waterberg District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

It is approximately 54 km[2] south of Thabazimbi on the R510 road.

Fulls on the farm Leeukoppie, which belonged to H. Herd, and was originally one of a number of farms allocated to British veterans of the Anglo-Boer war.

[3] There are chrome and platinum mines in the area surrounding the town.

[3] Northam is also home to the South African music festival Oppikoppi.,[4]: 315  which attracted hundreds of artists and thousands of fans every year in August.