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    Karoo Hoogland Municipality (Afrikaans: Karoo Hoogland Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Namakwa District Municipality, in the Northern...
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  • The Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality council consists of eleven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Six councillors are elected...
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    Fraserburg (category Populated places in the Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    Fraserburg is a town in the Karoo region of South Africa's Northern Cape province. It is located in the Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality. The town has some of...
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    Great Karoo. It abuts on the Karoo Hoogland Municipality to the northwest, the Ubuntu Municipality to the north, the Dr Beyers Naudé Municipality to the...
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  • Vlok Cilliers (category People from Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    Nicolaas Vlok Cilliers (born 26 March 1968) is a South African former rugby union player who played as a fly-half. After his playing years, he became a...
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    Municipalities to the west, and the Karoo Hoogland Municipality to the north. The principal settlement in the municipality is the town of Laingsburg, which...
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    of the country is divided into district municipalities, each of which consists of several local municipalities. Since the boundary reform at the time of...
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  • District Municipality, in the Western Cape, South Africa Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality, in the Northern Cape, South Africa Birds Karoo chat Karoo eremomela...
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    A. G. Visser (category People from Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    Andries Gerhardus Visser (1 March 1878 – 10 June 1929) was a well-known early Afrikaans poet. He was popularly known as the "Singer of the Suikerbosrand"...
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    Sutherland, South Africa (category Populated places in the Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    province of South Africa. It lies in the western Roggeveld Mountains in the Karoo. Sutherland was founded in 1855 as a church and market town to serve the...
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    Williston, South Africa (category Populated places in the Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    of the Upper Karoo. Calvinia Nama people "Main Place Williston". Census 2011. "History of Williston - The Karoo, South Africa". The Karoo, South Africa...
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  • Adriaan Vlok (category People from Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    Adriaan Johannes Vlok (11 December 1937 – 8 January 2023) was a South African politician. He was Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to...
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  • Jan S. Marais (category People from Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    for the repeal of the Group Areas Act. Dr. Jan S Marais was born in the Karoo, in the town of Fraserburgh, Northern Cape, South Africa. After school,...
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    Hermanus van Wyk (category People from Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    Namibia; the first 30 families settled about 1870. They acquired land from local natives and were joined by additional Baster families over the following...
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    located close to the town of Sutherland in the semi-desert region of the Karoo, South Africa. It is a facility of the South African Astronomical Observatory...
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  • N. P. van Wyk Louw (category People from Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (11 June 1906 in Sutherland, Cape Colony – 18 June 1970 in Johannesburg), almost universally known as N.P. van Wyk Louw, was...
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  • W. E. G. Louw (category People from Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality)
    William Ewart Gladstone Louw (31 May 1913 in Sutherland, formerly Cape Province, now Northern Cape Province in South Africa – 24 April 1980 in Stellenbosch...
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  • Ethnic groups in South Africa by municipality details the ethnic composition of South Africa by municipality, according to the 2011 census. Demographics...
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  • Thumbnail for List of municipalities in the Northern Cape
    divided, for local government purposes, into five district municipalities which are in turn divided into twenty-six local municipalities. In the following...
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    Local Municipalities such as in the Cacadu District Municipality, contain white percentages exceeding 10%, with the highest being the Kouga Local Municipality...
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    MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South...
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  • Thumbnail for Witzenberg Local Municipality
    It abuts on the Hantam Municipality to the north, the Karoo Hoogland Municipality to the northeast, the Laingsburg Municipality to the southeast, the Breede...
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  • Hantam Local Municipality, Kamiesberg Local Municipality, Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality, Khai-Ma Local Municipality, Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Richtersveld...
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  • the South African SKA site in the Meerkat National Park located in the Karoo desert of the Northern Cape, South Africa, which is used for science observations...
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    Northern Cape (category Karoo)
    Gamagara Namakwa District Richtersveld Nama Khoi Kamiesberg Hantam Karoo Hoogland Khâi-Ma Pixley ka Seme District Ubuntu Umsobomvu Emthanjeni Kareeberg...
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    in the east Central Karoo (DC5) in the south-east Cape Winelands (DC2) – in the south (formerly the Boland District Municipality) West Coast (DC1) in...
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  • Nieuwoudtville in the Hantam Local Municipality Carnarvon in the Kareeberg Local Municipality Fraserburg in the Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality Port Nolloth in the...
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    NC081: Mier 6,836 6,772 99.06% NC065: Hantam 19,812 19,596 98.91% NC066: Karoo Hoogland 10,514 10,372 98.65% NC074: Kareeberg 9,488 9,358 98.63% NC064: Kamiesberg...
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    Karoo, Upper Karoo Hardeveld, and Western Upper Karoo vegetation. 223 plant species were documented in the park. Common sand frog Common caco Karoo toad...
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    each; a similar situation obtained in the Prince Albert Local Municipality, where the Karoo Gemeenskaps Party won three seats and the ANC and the DA...
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