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Kloof / k l uː f / is a town that includes a smaller area called Everton, located approximately 26 km north-west of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Once an independent municipality, it now forms part of greater Durban area of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality .
Silwerboomkloof Natural Heritage Site is a small, protected valley (“kloof”), near the Helderberg Nature Reserve, in Somerset West, South Africa. [1]The name Silwerboomkloof means “Valley of the Silvertrees”.
Charlon Anduele Romano Kloof (born 20 March 1990) is a Dutch-Surinamese basketball player for Heroes Den Bosch of the BNXT League. Standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), Kloof plays the point guard position and is a current member of the Dutch national basketball team .
The Moreleta Kloof Nature Reserve in eastern Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, was part of the farm Garsfontein which was acquired by Jacobus Cornelius Rademeyer in 1859. He had married Cornelia Jacoba Susanna Erasmus on 2 Jul 1837 in George, Eastern Cape.
Kenneth Moesi Nkhwa was born in 1927. [1] He completed his junior certificate at Tiger Kloof [2] before serving with the British Colonial Forces in Egypt during World War II, and he then attended Tiger Kloof in South Africa to complete his education in 1948. [1]
Nuwekloof Pass, also known as Roodezand Pass or Tulbagh Kloof, is a mountain pass in the Western Cape, South Africa, which crosses the Obiqua Mountains in a kloof created by the Klein Berg River. It allows eastward access from Cape Town and the Swartland into the Tulbagh basin and onwards to the Breede River Valley .
The Kloof frog is an endangered amphibian, confined to clear streams in scarp forests. [5]Some 25 amphibian, 255 bird, 50 mammal, 36 reptile, 150 butterfly and 274 tree species [12] have been recorded in the Gorge or its vicinity.
The kloof was given its name by Isaq Schrijver in 1689, and more thoroughly explored by a later expedition under ensign August Frederik Beutler in 1752. [ 1 ] The valley has been farmed since 1760 and developed into an important fruit-growing region during the 1900s, [ 2 ] specifically prized for its apples and pears.