Putsonderwater (formerly Putzonderwater) is an abandoned settlement in !Kheis Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
[citation needed] This however does not explain the Dutch spelling of "Putzonderwater", and is considered a flight of fancy by André Brink.
[citation needed] The railway siding was named Putsonderwater (with the Afrikaans "s").
Putzonderwater once won certificates for being the neatest railway station in South Africa.
[5] Bartho Smit wrote the play Putsonderwater in 1962, but it could not be performed in South Africa because of its political message.