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Villiers is a small town situated on the banks of the Vaal River next to the N3 highway in the Free State province of South Africa. It was founded in 1882 on the two farms Pearson Valley and Grootdraai owned by Lourens de Villiers .
Villiersdorp is a town of approximately 10,000 people located in the Western Cape province of South Africa in the Overberg region.. Unlike most of the geographical region which specialises in wheat and canola farming, the Villiersdorp Valley is now agriculturally and in micro-climate more similar to the Elgin Valley and Grabouw since the building of the Theewaterskloof Dam, and thus also ...
Its name comes from Elizabeth "Bettie" de Villiers, the maiden name of the wife of Gideon P. Retief von Wielligh. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 3 ] Von Wielligh was Surveyor-General of the South African Republic and he lived on his estate in Villieria between 1885 and 1898 with his wife and children.
East of Frankfort, the R26 becomes its own road, going north-north-east for 28 kilometres, meeting the eastern terminus of the R716 road, to the town of Villiers, where it ends at an off-ramp junction with the N3 national route and the R103 route just north of the N3's Wilge Toll Plaza and just south of the N3's Vaal River Bridge.
This is the only alternative way to cross the nearby Vaal River (Mpumalanga-Free State Border) into the town of Villiers apart from the N3. [1] The total length of the route from the N12 junction outside Potchefstroom to the N3 interchange near Villiers is 159 kilometres. [1]
Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff, 1st Baronet (30 March 1859 – 13 April 1931) was a South African cold storage magnate and politician. Graaff revolutionized the cold storage industry in Africa. He founded the Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company in 1899, and aggressively ran it until he left to serve in government.
Warden is a town situated in the Free State province of South Africa on the N3 highway between Johannesburg and Durban. The town is 56 km north of Harrismith and 106 kilometres (66 mi) south-south-east of Villiers. It was laid out on the farm Rietvlei in 1912, proclaimed in 1913, and attained municipal status in 1920.
The R51 begins at Bapsfontein, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng at the 4-way intersection with the R25 route and the R50 route (Delmas Road). As Pretoria Road, it heads south-south-west for 10 km up to Petit (east of Kempton Park and north-east of Benoni), where it meets the M44 metropolitan route and continues by way of a left turn to become Geldenhuys Street southwards.