Pofadder (Afrikaans for "puff adder") is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

As a tourist destination, it is not sufficiently spectacular to rival the spring flowers of the coastal regions of Namaqualand, but it has its attractions for biologists and conservationists and those with an interest in its remarkable diversity of often-tiny xerophytes and animal life.

In recent years, the town economy has been boosted by the construction and operation of solar power stations.

[3][4] Others maintain[citation needed] that this is an exercise in latter-day political correctness and that no record exists to prove that the village was not named after the venomous snake that is common enough in the district.

[5] This usage is most common in South Africa, while Timbuktu is used in most of the Commonwealth for this purpose and Kalamazoo in the United States.