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Teebus is a village some 18 km south-west of Steynsburg and 35 km north-north-west of Hofmeyr. Afrikaans for 'tea-caddy', this name is taken from that of a pointed hill; to the north of this hill is Koffiebus, 'coffee-caddy'.
Sunset at Oviston, Gariep Dam. The Orange–Fish Tunnel, constructed between 1966 and 1975, is an 82.8-kilometre (51.4-mile) long irrigation tunnel in central South Africa, built to divert water from the Orange River to the Fish River valley.
It developed around the Reformed Church established in 1872 and has been administered by a village management board since 1874. Steynsburg is named after Douwe Gerbrandt Steyn, grandfather of President Paul Kruger. [2] Steynsburg has a well-established Provincial hospital. [3]
Maclear, officially Nqanqarhu, [2] is a small town situated in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, near the Mooi River (a tributary of the Tsitsa River), 172 km (107 mi) north of East London and 80 km (50 mi) northeast of Elliot.
Rhodes is a hamlet or small village alongside the wild trout rich Bell River, near Ben Macdhui (at 3001 m the highest mountain in the Cape region) in the Drakensberg mountains of the north Eastern Cape, South Africa.
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was a demonstration project headed by the American economist Jeffrey Sachs under the auspices of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the United Nations Development Programme, and Millennium Promise with the goal of achieving the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals in rural Africa by 2015.
Lady Grey Church, Eastern Cape. Lady Grey is a rural village in the North of the Eastern Cape in South Africa near the border with Lesotho.It is situated in the foothills of the Witteberg mountains, 54 km (34 mi) due east of Aliwal North on the R58 road and 260 km (160 mi) from the capital of the Free State Province, Bloemfontein.
The village is situated 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Lady Grey, due east of Aliwal North. Founded in 1879, it was named after the astronomer Sir John Herschel who worked in the Cape Colony from 1834 to 1838, making observations of Halley's Comet amongst his other astronomical work.
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