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Elandsberg is a mountain and is located in the Swartland District, near Riebeeck Kasteel, in the Western Cape. The estim
Name applied from 1657 to the Liesbeek River, in Cape Town. Named after a small River in the Netherlands. The first 'fre
Railway siding, 8 km west of Lady Grey, on the route between Aliwal North and Barkley East. The name is Afrikaans for 'a
Johan Anthonisz “Jan” van Riebeeck died on 18 January 1677 at the age of 57 in Batavia, now Jakarta, Indonesia, in
Sol Plaatje University (SPU) opened in 2014, the first of two new universities to be established in post-apartheid South
21 March 1990, Namibia became the forty-seventh African colony to gain independence. Whilst preparing for this State of
