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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 ...
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.
They form one road eastwards for 12 kilometres before the N8 becomes its own road southwards towards Maseru while the R26 turns northwards and bypasses the town of Ladybrand to the east. [1] From Ladybrand, the R26 continues northwards for 35 kilometres to the town of Clocolan, where it meets the south-eastern terminus of the R708 road.
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]
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.
In 1812 Paul de Villiers and his wife, Anna Susanna Louw, completed a new house at Boschendal on the site of his father's home. This is the homestead as restored today. [1] Among the guests in the later years of the De Villiers era was the British Governor at the Cape, Sir George Grey, who stayed at Boschendal whenever he visited the region. [1]
Statue of John Henry de Villiers as Chief Justice. In 1874, on Molteno's insistence, he agreed to take the office of Chief Justice of the Cape Colony - a job he performed with great dedication and skill until the Act of Union in 1910. After the Union of South Africa was created, he went on to serve as Chief Justice of South Africa from 1910 to ...