Galeshewe is a township located in the Sol Plaatje Municipality, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It is named after Kgosi (Chief) Galeshewe. In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in areas that were designated white-only. Soweto (actually a group of townships) and Alexandra are two of... Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje (1877 – June 19, 1932) was an African polyglot, journalist, writer and statesman. ... Northern Cape is a province of South Africa, created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. ...

The township has a population of ca. 103 228 people; half of the population of the Sol Plaatje Municipality lives in Galeshewe.