Laaste Hoop

Laaste Hoop
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Coordinates: 23.994°S 29.656°E / -23.994; 29.656
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Capricorn
Municipality	Polokwane
Area
• Total	9.58 km2 (3.70 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	6,670
• Density	700/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	99.9%
First languages (2011)
• Northern Sotho	96.1%
• Tsonga	1.2%
• Other	2.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)

Laaste Hoop is a village in Polokwane which falls under the jurisdiction of Polokwane Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is the birthplace of Raymond Mojapelo, a manager of a campus radio station is Grahamstown, Rhodes Music Radio. It is under tribal leadership. The ntona of the place is Mantsho Mojapelo and it is under the supreme leadership of Kgosi Malatswa Molepo, the son of the deceased Setlakalane Molepo. The village has one high school, Malatswa High School, and two primary schools, Mamothalo and Laastehoop Primary School. Laastehoop is the home of rising artist such as the rap sensations Tituswag, Sera-Boy the Glory, Braveheart, L-bang and many more, other notable house moguls are DJ 3D, DJ afro-healer and DJ Razor Mojapelo. The old Laastehoop primary school is used as offices for a community project tasked with unearthing talent in the area named JSM and also THUTO FOUNDATION host annual career exhibition at the same premises.