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TYGERVALLEY INFO OFFICE 021 914 1786
Originally called Twelve Mile the exact distance from Cape Town it was
renamed Bellville in 1861 in honour of Charles Bell, Surveyor General
of the Cape at that time. Charles Davidson Bell was also the designer
of ...
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Sannieshof Municipality: 018 683 0019
Sannieshof is situated in the heart of a very large maize producing
region. When the first post office opened here in 1920 it was named
after the wife of the postmaster of the controlling post ...
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TOWNS: Bloemhof, Christiana, Fochville, Klerksdorp, Orkney,
Potchefstroom, Stilfontein, Ventersdorp, Wolmaransstad.
This region covers most of the former Western Transvaal. It is an
infinitive tapestry of green maize and yellow sunflower fields,
alternated ...
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ROSENDAL MUNICIPALITY: 058 211 0620
Rosendal was founded in 1911 and is located 43km north of Ficksburg on
the road to Paul Roux. The town is situated in a scenic horseshoe
formed by hills and mountains running from east through ...
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NOCCI 053 474 0432
In 1880 a syndicate bought the western portion of the farm Grasbult on
the Vaal River to irrigate the fertile land and produce vegetables for
those working the diamond fields. Named after Sir Charles Warren,
diamonds ...
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Derived from the Nama word 'U-gieb', meaning 'the great, brackish
spring', Okiep was, until production ceased in 1918, the world's
richest copper mine. Okiep is the oldest mining town in South Africa
where copper was first discovered and mined in 1855. ...
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KAROO HOOGLAND TOURISM
Tel 023 571 1265
FRASERBURG TOURISM
Tel 023 741 1012
The town was founded in the West Nuweveld in 1851. Fraserburg has a
very rich historical heritage. The earliest inhabitants of the area
were Bushmen, ...
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CITIES/TOWNS: Balfour, Bethal, Delmas, Evander, Greylingstad,
Groblersdal, Leandra, Middelburg, Secunda, Standerton, Trichardt,
Witbank
Cosmos Country lies in the south western part of Mpumalanga against
the Free State and Gauteng borders and includes ...
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Koster was named after Bastiaan Hendricus Koster, a native of
Rotterdam who in 1860 settled on the farm Kleinfontein on which the
town was later established. The town is the centre of maize
production, although other grains, tobacco and citrus fruit ...
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EXCELSIOR MUNICIPALITY 051 973 0015
Excelsior was founded in 1910 by a group of farmers, tired of the long
journeys between Winburg and Ladybrand. The first sandstone reservoir
was erected here in 1924.
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