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Sterkspruit is a town in the Senqu Local Municipality in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town is located about 45 km south-east of Zastron, 80 km north-east of Aliwal North, and 24 km from the Lesotho border. [2] It takes its name from the Sterkspruit, the watercourse on which it is situated.
The Sterkspruit Civic Association (SCA) is a political party based in Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.. The party wishes the town of Sterkspruit to secede from the Senqu Local Municipality (headquartered in Lady Grey 45 km away) and form its own municipality, citing corruption by the African National Congress-led municipality and the sidelining of Sterkspruit with service delivery.
The municipal council consists of thirty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining seventeen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
Lydenburg, also known as Mashishing, [2] [3] is a town in Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, on the Mpumalanga highveld, South Africa.It is situated on the Sterkspruit/Dorps River tributary of the Lepelle River at the summit of the Long Tom Pass.
The Hlubi people or AmaHlubi are an AmaMbo ethnic group native to Southern Africa, with the majority of population found in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.
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A memorial was erected in Sterkspruit where Mohapi was born, in his honour. He also received the Order of Luthuli from the South African Presidency, for "dedicating his life to the struggle for a democratic, free and non-racial South Africa".
The R393 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects Sterkspruit via the Lesotho border to the R58 near Elliot. [1] External links. Routes Travel Info; References