Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for clay bricks in Northern Cape goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across Northern Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Clay Bricks in Northern Cape
Clay bricks in Northern Cape: say whether you want stock or face bricks, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Clay brickyards that deliver to Northern Cape, Northern Cape can quote per 1,000 delivered and say whether all your bricks will come from one firing.
Want to know more first? Our clay bricks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Northern Cape
Newer houses in Kimberley's Royldene and Hadison Park mix face brick with plaster, while Galeshewe and Roodepan build mostly in cement maxi bricks. In Kathu and Postmasburg, mine housing and rentals take large orders of blocks. Farms near Prieska and Williston build sheds and staff houses in hollow blocks, and Kimberley's old Belgravia houses need red face brick matched carefully for repairs and extensions.
Northern Cape: the building, the weather and the yards
Distance is part of the price of every brick in the Northern Cape. Kimberley and Upington have the bigger yards, but a farmhouse near Carnarvon or a school extension in Pofadder may be hundreds of kilometres from the nearest pallet, so many towns make their own cement bricks locally with a small machine and Orange River or pit sand. Mining towns such as Kathu, Postmasburg and Kuruman add rented housing and new extensions, and the Karoo towns of De Aar and Colesberg build farm sheds, dams and kraals. Kimberley's older suburbs still have red face brick to match. Fierce sun and dry wind crack fresh bricks, and the Karoo gets hard winter frost.
The requests we see from Northern Cape usually come from:
- Farms and smallholdings: clay brick farmhouses, sheds and kraal walls that handle damp well
- Homeowners: clay stock bricks for a plastered house, garage or room addition
- New brick-making businesses: resellers buying clay bricks by the truck load for local builders
Local tips for Northern Cape
Most asked for in Northern Cape: locally made cement bricks, farm shed blocks, housing in the mining towns. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu; small local yards in most towns. A useful tip: ask for a full load price delivered to the farm, not a per pallet price at the yard.
Requests range widely: 222 x 106 x 73 mm, about 52 a square metre. Here, farms and smallholdings lead the requests, typically for clay brick farmhouses, sheds and kraal walls that handle damp well. One local point to raise: long hauls on the N8, N10 and N14; many towns make bricks with local sand.
Service area: Northern Cape and surrounds
Across Northern Cape our network reaches Kimberley, Upington, Kathu, Kuruman, Springbok, De Aar, Postmasburg and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.