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    Volksrust is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa near the KwaZulu-Natal provincial border, some 240 km southeast of Johannesburg, 53 km...
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    Volksrust Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the...
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    26–27 February 1881. Colley's motive for occupying Majuba Hill, near Volksrust, now in South Africa, may have been anxiety that the Boers would soon...
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    Standerton: 85,893 Hoëveldrif (Highveld Ridge): 155,881 Bethal: 77,780 Volksrust: 29,924 Amersfoort: 33,461 Wakkerstroom: 33,246 Piet Retief: 64,052 Ermelo:...
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    The R23 is a provincial route in South Africa that links Benoni with Volksrust via Brakpan, Heidelberg and Standerton. The R23 begins at the suburb of...
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  • Mpumalanga province, in South Africa. It is a village 38 km north of Volksrust and 47 km south of Standerton. Formerly Paardekop, ‘horses hill’, from...
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  • South Africa. The town is on the KwaZulu-Natal border, 27 km east of Volksrust and 56 km south-east of Amersfoort. The settlement was laid out on the...
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    medical student at the University of the Free State. She was born in Volksrust, South Africa, to Theresa, a nurse, and Hennie Strauss, a doctor. She...
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  • Laing's Nek pass in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between Newcastle and Volksrust. It started out as an important railway station and customs post between...
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    through Amersfoort (where it meets the R35 road again), to the town of Volksrust, where it meets the south-eastern terminus of the R23 road and becomes...
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    moved east at Heidelberg and passed through the towns of Standerton, Volksrust and Newcastle via Laing's Nek Pass, before joining the present alignment...
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    current N3 from Durban to Ladysmith, then following the current N11 to Volksrust, and the current R23 from there to Heidelberg, and then continuing equivalent...
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    Standerton and Volksrust. Marwick rode ahead to see General Joubert at Sandspruit, but found that the Boer forces had advanced to Volksrust. On 12 October...
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    to retire with his daughter at Rustenburg. He died during a visit to Volksrust and was buried there with his military honors. Biographical information...
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    1 9.8 Pixley ka Seme Local Municipality MP304 Mpumalanga Gert Sibande Volksrust B3 (small towns) 5,227 3,248 85,395 16.3 26.2 Polokwane Local Municipality...
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    Viljoenskroon Free State Villiers Free State Virginia KwaZulu-Natal Vivo Limpopo Volksrust Mpumalanga Vosloorus Gauteng Vrede Free State Vredefort Free State Vryburg...
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  • Superbowl, Rustenburg, South Africa Broadcaster DStv Entrants 12 Placements 5 Winner Rolene Strauss Volksrust Congeniality Abigail de Jager ← 2012 2015 →...
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  • Africa that connects Vrede with the Mahamba Border Post with Eswatini via Volksrust, Wakkerstroom and Piet Retief. Its western terminus is the R34 in Vrede...
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    1901. Most of the captured Boers were sent to the concentration camp of Volksrust. On 11 February, another column under Edmund Allenby was positioned at...
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    Sibande District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Volksrust is the seat of the municipality. The municipality is named after Pixley...
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    5%; Swazi 4%; Tsonga 3%; Tswana 2%; foreign languages 2%; Ndebele 2% Volksrust 3,996 3,132 Pixley ka Seme Zulu 72%; Afrikaans 16%; English 4%; Sotho...
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    Majuba Hill, "Hill of Doves" in the Zulu language, located northeast of Volksrust, close to the Mpumalanga / KwaZulu-Natal border. It follows a southerly...
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  • Indonesia September 28, 2013 127 64th 2014  South Africa Rolene Strauss 22 Volksrust Miss South Africa 2014 London, United Kingdom December 14, 2014 121 65th...
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    Viljoensdrif Orange Free State January 1901 - February 1901 undisclosed Volksrust Transvaal Republic February 1901 - January 1903 1009 Vredefortweg Orange...
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  • Westville University of Zululand Ushaka Warriors Utrecht Varsity College Volksrust Voortrekker Old Boys Vryheid Young Lions Westville Old Boys Zululand Rhinos...
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  • 3 MHz - Piet Retief-Goedetrouw 95.7 MHz - Mbombela-Spitskop 95.8 MHz - Volksrust 96.0 MHz - Lydenburg 96.2 MHz - Carolina-Pittville 96.7 MHz - Davel-Spioenkop...
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    Detva Slovenia Julija Bizjak 20 Lesce South Africa Rolene Strauss 22 Volksrust South Sudan Awien Kuanyin-Agoth 19 Gogrial Spain Lourdes Rodríguez 20...
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  • Standerton 1 0 fatalities Spotted about 12 km outside Standerton on the R23 Volksrust Road Mpumalanga Standerton 11 December 2016 Mpumalanga, Standerton 1 0...
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  • Majuba Power Station between Volksrust and Amersfoort in Mpumalanga, South Africa, is a coal-fired power plant operated by Eskom. Majuba is Eskom's only...
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  • Hoedspruit 104 MHz Lydenburg 92.8 MHz Mbuzini 93.7 MHz Middelburg 103.8 MHz Nelspruit 92.5 MHz Pretoria 89.3 MHz Volksrust 89.5 MHz Nelspruit 92.5 MHz...
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