List of cities and towns in Mpumalanga
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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Aankoms Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Acornhoek
Amersfoort Gras and Wetlands
Amsterdam Gras and Wetlands
Anysspruit
Argent
Avoca
Avontuur Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...


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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Badplaas Gras and Wetlands
Balfour
Balfour, Mpumalanga
Balfour is a small coal mining and maize farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The town was established in 1898 as McHattiesburg after its founder Frederick McHattie. In 1905 the town changed its name when the British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour gave a speech at the local station platform...

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Balmoral
Bankkop
Barberton
Barberton, Mpumalanga
Barberton is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, which has its origin in the 1880s gold rush in the region. It is situated in the De Kaap Valley and is fringed by the Mkhonjwa Mountains...

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Belfast Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...

Berbice
Berbice
Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1815 a colony of the Netherlands. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom in the latter year, it was merged with Essequibo and Demerara to form the colony of British Guiana in 1831...

Bethal
Bethal
Bethal is a farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce maize, sunflower seeds, sorghum, rye and potatoes. The town, established in 1880, was named after the combined names of the wives of the owners of the farm Blesbokspruit, Elizabeth du Plooy and Alida Naude.It is...

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Bettiesdam
Branddraai
Braunschweig
Breyten
Breyten
Breyten is a small farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa and is situated at the foot of Klipstapel, the highest point on the watershed between the westward flowing Vaal River system and the eastward flowing Olifants and Komati River systems...

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Brondal
Bushbuckridge
Bushbuckridge
Bushbuckridge is a city and municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The name was given because of the large herds of antelope that were found there in the 1880s. The town grew around a trading store which opened in 1884...

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Carolina
Carolina, Mpumalanga
Carolina is a town situated on the Johannesburg to Swaziland route in Mpumalanga province in South Africa. It is a mixed farming and on a small scale coal and precious stone mining community. It was established by Cornelius Coetzee as a permanent outspan for wagons when gold was discovered in 1883...

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Chrissiesmeer
Chrissiesmeer
Chrissiesmeer is a small town situated in a wetland area of Mpumalanga province in South Africa, on the northern banks of the eponymous Lake Chrissie. The San inhabited this area along with the Tlou-tle people who lived on rafts in the larger lakes. The Voortrekkers established a town here in the...

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Davale Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Delmas
Delmas, Mpumalanga
Delmas is a small farming town situated east of Johannesburg in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce maize, wheat, potatoes and chickens. The town was laid out in 1907 on the farm Witklip . The farm was owned by a Frenchman Frank Dumat, who decided to call the town "de le mas" ....

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Diepdale Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Diepgezet Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Dullstroom
Dullstroom
Dullstroom-Emnotweni is one of the coldest towns in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, and along with Underberg, it is one of South Africa's premier flyfishing destinations...

Eascarpment
Dundonald Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...


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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Eerstehoek Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Ekulindeni Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Elukwatini Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Embhuleni Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Emphuluzi Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Enkhaba Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Ermelo
Ermelo, Mpumalanga
Ermelo is the educational, industrial and commercial centre of the 7,750 km² Gert Sibande District Municipality in Mpumalanga province, Republic of South Africa. Mixed farming and anthracite, coal and torbanite mining take place here...

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name

fernie wetlands albert luthuli gert sibande

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Glenmore Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Graskop
Graskop
Graskop is a small town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It was set up in the 1880s as a gold mining camp but it now serves as a timber industry and milling centre. The name is Afrikaans for grassy peak. “God’s Window”, a breathtaking view from the escarpment of the Lowveld below, is located...

Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...

Greylingstad
Greylingstad
Greylingstad is a small farming town west of Standerton in Mpumalanga, South Africa.- Early 20th century :...

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Hartebeeskop Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Hazyview
Hazyview
Hazyview is a small farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa and is renowned for its banana industry. Close to Kruger National Park, the town's name is derived from the shimmering haze that occurs during the heat of summer. Most of Mpumalanga's private game reserves are found just east of...

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Hectorspruit
Hectorspruit
Hectorspruit is a small farming town situated between Kaapmuiden and Komatipoort on a southern tributary of the Crocodile River in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce sugarcane, subtropical fruit and vegetables. The town and stream is named after a dog belonging to S de Kock,...

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name

K

Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Kaapmuiden
Kaapmuiden
Kaapmuiden is a small farming town situated at the confluence of the Kaap and Crocodile Rivers in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The town lies just off the N4 national highway and is marked by a large abandoned silo visible from the road. The silo has since been repainted to add to tourism appeal. The...

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Kinross
Kinross, Mpumalanga
Kinross is a small gold mining town in Mpumalanga, South Africa with four gold mines in the region. The town, named after Kinross in Scotland, was established in 1915....

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Komatipoort
Komatipoort
Komatipoort is a town situated at the confluence of the Crocodile and Komati Rivers in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is 8km from the Crocodile Bridge Gate into the Kruger Park, and just 5km from the Mozambique border and 65km from the Swazi border. It is a small, quiet town with some...

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KwaMhlanga
KwaMhlanga
KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa and is the spiritual home of the amaNdebele tribe that settled there in the early 18th century....

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Lochie Grass and Wetlands]] Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Loopspruit
Loopspruit
Loopspruit is a small town situated 25 km north of Pretoria in Mpumalanga, South Africa....

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Lydenburg
Lydenburg
Lydenburg is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The town is slated to be renamed Mashishing, according to an announcement made on June 30, 2006 by the South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan. Lydenburg is situated on the Sterkspruit/Dorps River tributary of the Olifants River at...

Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...


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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Machadodorp
Machadodorp
Machadodorp is a small town situated near the edge of the escarpment in the Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The Elands River runs through the town...

Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...

(renamed eNtokozweni)
Malelane
Malelane
Malalane is a farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa situated on the N4 national highway. The farms in the region produce sugarcane, subtropical fruit and winter vegetables. The town was proclaimed in 1949 after which it was named. The origin of the name is disputed but was corrupted from the...

Lowveld (renamed Malalane)
Marble Hall
Marble Hall
Marble Hall is a small town in the south of the Limpopo province, in South Africa. It was formerley in Mpumalanga provinse.-History:While on a hunting expedition from Pretoria, Christoffel Visagie and his family discovered a hole containing marble in 1920...

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Mbhejeka Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Middelburg
Middelburg, Mpumalanga
Middelburg is a large farming and industrial town in the South African province of Mpumalanga.Middelburg was established as Nasareth, , in 1864 by the Voortrekkers on the banks of the Klein Olifants River. The name was changed in 1872 to Middelburg to mark its situation midway between the Transvaal...

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Moddergat Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Mooiplaas Grass and Wetlands Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, Grass and Wetlands region, of Mpumalanga. Carolina is the Seat of the municipality.- Towns...

Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...

Morgenzon
Morgenzon
Morgenzon is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Osspruit River with an important agricultural school in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It was established around the Marnico Hotel which was built in 1912 on a wagon stopover between Standerton and Ermelo, Mpumalanga....

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Nelspruit
Nelspruit
Nelspruit is a city of more than 500,000 people situated in northeastern South Africa. It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province . Located on the Crocodile River, Nelspruit lies about west of the Mozambique border and east of Johannesburg. The towns of Nelspruit are Kanyamazane and Pienaar...

Lowveld (renamed Mbombela)

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Ohrigstad
Ohrigstad
Ohrigstad is a small town to the north of Lydenburg in the Mpumalanga province, South Africa. A fort was established by a group of Voortrekkers under the leadership of Andries Hendrik Potgieter with the help of a Dutch merchant Gregorius Ohrig. The settlers arrived in 1845 and were soon afterwards...

Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...


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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Perdekop
Perdekop
Perdekop, , is a small town situated on top of a 1,889m peak in the Mpumalanga province, in South Africa. The town was established during an equine sickness epidemic when farmers found that when they brought their horses to the top of this hill they were protected from the sickness...

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Piet Retief Grass and Wetlands
Pilgrim's Rest Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...


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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Sabie
Sabie
Sabie is a forestry town situated on the banks of the Sabie River in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Once the Sabie River was teeming with crocodiles and the local Shangaan people dubbed it uluSaba or ...

Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...

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Siyabuswa
Siyabuswa
Siyabuswa is a town in the countryside of the South African province of Mpumalanga . During the apartheid era, Siyabuswa was the capital of the KwaNdebele Bantustan. It served as a capital from 1981 to 1986 when KwaMhlanga replaced it...

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Skukuza
Skukuza
Skukuza is the main camp in the Kruger National Park. The name, adapted from Sikhukhuza , was a nickname for James Stevenson-Hamilton. It could be translated as 'a new broom', as Stevenson-Hamilton swept the area clean of poachers and outlaws....

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Standerton
Standerton
Standerton is a large commercial and agricultural town lying on the banks of the Vaal River in Mpumalanga, South Africa which specialises in cattle, dairy, maize and poultry farming. The town was established in 1876 and named after Boer leader Commadant AH Stander. During the Second Boer War a...

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Vaalbank
Vaalbank
Vaalbank is a small town some 102 kilometers northeast of Pretoria. The town is an important one in Mpumalanga's northwestern end where the majority of the surrounding population is rural and does not have infrastructure...

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Volksrust
Volksrust
Volksrust is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa on the KwaZulu-Natal provincial border. The town has important beef, dairy, maize, sorghum, wool and sunflower seed industries. It was established near to where the Battle of Majuba, wherein the Transvaal won its independence back...

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Town Name Region Local Municipality District Remarks / New Name
Wakkerstroom
Wakkerstroom
Wakkerstroom, , is the second oldest town in Mpumalanga province in South Africa. It was established in 1859 and its name is an Afrikaans translation of the Zulu name for the river that flows near the town, uThaka, ...

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Waterval Boven
Waterval Boven
Waterval Boven is a small town situated on the edge of the Escarpment on the banks of the Elands River above the 75m Elands Falls on the railway line from Pretoria to Maputo in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Hence the name which means "above the waterfall" in Dutch...

Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...

Waterval Onder
Waterval Onder
Waterval Onder is a small village situated at the base of the escarpment on the banks of the Elands River below a 228m waterfall in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Hence the name which means below the waterfall. The village did not develop into a town like its sister town of Waterval Boven which is above...

Escarpment
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...

White River
White River, Mpumalanga
White River is a small holiday and farming town situated just north of Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce tropical fruits, vegetables, flowers and timber. After the Boer War the British demarcated land on the Emanzimhlope River, a tributary of the Limpopo River....

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Witbank
Witbank
Witbank , also known as eMalahleni is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the eMalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for White Ridge and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wagon transport drivers rested...

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