The Riet River is a westward-flowing tributary of the Vaal River in central South Africa. In precolonial times the Riet was known as the Gama-!ab (or...
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Largemouth yellowfish (redirect from Vaal-orange Largemouth Yellowfish)
largemouth yellowfish occurs in the Orange and Vaal Rivers and their larger tributaries (e.g. the Riet River) in Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. In the...
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term for "river" (often tautologically the English term "river" is added to the name). The Zulu word amanzi (water) also forms part of some river names....
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obtained from the deposits of the Vaal River in conjunction with South African Geological Surveys. In 1937 van Riet Lowe was elected President of the...
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4061/2011/961401. Van Riet Lowe, C. 1927. The Archaeology of the Vaal River Basin. In Söhnge, P.G., Visser, D.J.L. & Van Riet Lowe, C. (eds). The Geology...
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The Modder River is a river in South Africa. It is a tributary of the Riet River that forms part of the border between the Northern Cape and the Free...
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Northern Cape (section Rivers)
the Harts River and the Riet River, which has its own major tributary, the Modder River. Above the Orange-Vaal confluence, the Seekoei River drains part...
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2018, these plants continued to discharge raw sewage into the Vaal River, Klip River and Riet Spruit. Several suburbs, including Drie Riviere, Duncanville...
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group of San or Khoe-San who inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers, western Orange Free State, in the mid nineteenth century. From the...
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Krupp cannon and reached him near Watervalsdrift/Waterval Drift on the Riet River at Wintershoek with 325 men. Then De Wet sent Cronjé to occupy Koffiefontein...
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Driekopseiland) is a rock engraving or petroglyph site in the bed of the Riet River close to the town of Plooysburg, near Kimberley, Northern Cape, South...
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Northern Cape. In 1844, lions were sighted south of the Riet River. The last lions south of the Orange River were sighted between 1850 and 1858. In the northern...
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canoeing on the rivers of Southern Africa before the 1930s. By the 1930s, canoe trips were made on rivers like the Orange River and the Vaal River, with the...
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107–116. Söhnge, P.G.; Visser, D.J.L.; van Riet Lowe, C. (1937). "The geology and archaeology of the Vaal River basin". Geological Survey of South Africa...
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terrace gravels of the Vaal River, and similar finds have been recorded by Wayland, who visited South Africa, and by van Riet Lowe and other South African...
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List of dams and reservoirs in South Africa List of drainage basins of South Africa List of rivers of South Africa Hydrology Water Management Area Maps...
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detachments behind the line of BSAC posts from Wegdraai Drift on the Riet River to Emmaus. While other columns drove the Boers towards this stop line...
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Orange River Sovereignty, enforced by the presence of British troops, which lasted from 1848 to 1854 in the territory between the Orange and Vaal rivers, named...
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Eskom. October 2005. Retrieved 9 January 2010. "Water Origination: The Vaal River System". Rand Water. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015....
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culture and/or techno-economic terms. The region bounded by the Vaal and Orange Rivers has a particularly concentrated distribution of engraving sites...
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over 20 miles south to Ramdam, then about 15 miles east to seize the Riet River Crossings, then about 25 miles (roughly north-north-east) to Klip Drift...
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left bank of the Vaal River some 40 km from Kimberley, on the right of the road to Barkly West. Driekopseiland is a farm on the Riet River about 64 km south-west...
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silver wavy bars on the lower section of the shield represent the Vaal and Limpopo rivers which form the northern and southern borders of the Witwatersrand...
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division guarding the British right flank by securing drifts across the Riet River. On 13 February, Roberts activated the second part of his plan, that involved...
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failed at Magersfontein, Methuen retreated and took up position on the Riet River, which was dubbed the "Modder position". Part of the political backlash...
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hull and Hypalon pontoons. RL 36, 9m deep V, Cold moulded wood: Pearl van Riet, Station 9 Brede class: (RNLI design) Spirit of Safmarine. Station 10, The...
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spot on the Riet River, which they named Bethanien, in September 1834. From Bethanien missionaries founded a station at Pniel on the Vaal River in 1845,...
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