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Constantia

The Former estate in the magisterial district of Wynberg, 15 miles (24 km) by road from Cape Town. It was over 891 morge...

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Carmel, George

In 1721 the farm Langverwacht was allocated to Jean le Roux, a Huguenot settler. After a post office was opened on the s...

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Namaqualand, Flower Route

When the settlement was founded at the Cape the officials there soon learnt of the existence of, Copper somewhere to the...

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Griquatown

In 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among the Griqua ...

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Jutten Island, Saldanha Bay

This Dutch East  'Indiaman', was outbound when she tried to put; 'Merenstein' into Saldanha Bay to allevi...

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Kimberley, Northern Cape

Siege of KimberleyThe siege of the diamond-mining town in the north-west of South Africa, between 14th October 1899 and ...

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Fourteen Streams

Fourteen Streams is located in Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain el...

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Fraserburg

The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12...

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Garies

To describe Garies as in the middle of nowhere does not do any damage to the reputation of the Town (for those who stay ...

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Gordonia Division

Magisterial district and division in the North-West in the Cape Province. Named after Sir Gordon Sprigg, who was Prime M...

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Griqualand West

The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist clans, whose economy was not conducive to the creation...

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Colesberg, Northern Cape

The Village of Colesberg was founded in 1830 on the site of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and w...

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Concordia

The village of Concordia was established in 1863 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society. It seems probable that ...

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Orange River

 It rises in the Drakensberg in Lesotho (where it is known as the Senqu) it flows westward for 2200 km, where it fi...

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Schweizer-Reneke

On 7 August 1993, Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), had just been given the fre...

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