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unusual facts about Evander, Mpumalanga


Adel Weir

Ade Elizabeth (Adel) Weir (born 29 October 1983 in Evander, South Africa) is a South African professional squash player.


155 mm Creusot Long Tom

Replicas of the original cannons can be seen at various places in South Africa, including Fort Klapperkop near Pretoria, in the Long Tom Pass in Mpumalanga, The Anglo-Boer War Museum in Bloemfontein (formerly the War Museum of the Boer Republics) and next to the town hall in Ladysmith.

2009–10 Vodacom League

The five Coastal stream teams and four Inland stream teams were put respectively into Group A and Group B. All the playoff matches were played from April 6–12, at two big stadiums in the Mpumalanga region: Themba Senamela Stadium in Mhluzi, Middelburg and Ackerville Stadium in eMalahleni.

Alfred Dunhill Championship

In addition, the event was moved to the Leopard Creek Golf Club, just south of the Kruger National Park in Malalane, Mpumalanga.

Aloe aculeata

Aloe aculeata (common names include ngopanie, sekope, red hot poker aloe) is an Aloe species that is native to the Limpopo valley and Mpumalanga in South Africa along with southern and central Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Ancylobothrys capensis

The species is common and occurs in rocky areas, particularly on quartzites throughout KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo Province, North West Province and Botswana.

Aponogeton distachyos

Native to South Africa Western Cape and Mpumalanga Provinces but introduced elsewhere in quiet ponds in warm temperate to subtropical climates in winter rainfall areas.

Argei

This early population was believed to have been of Greek origin, and hence Argei derived from Argivi (the Greek ethnonym "Argives"), specifically the companions of Evander and later those of Hercules who had decided to stay on and live there.

Battle of Bakenlaagte

The Bakenlaagte battlefield is located on the Kriel-Kinross road at the intersection of the R547 and R580 roads in Mpumalanga Province, just south of Matla Power Station.

Economy of Swaziland

A north-south rail link, completed in 1986, provides a connection between the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga) rail network and the South African ports of Richards Bay and Durban.

Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing

Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing is a boxing video game that was developed by ACME Interactive and published by Sega in 1992, released for the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear consoles.

Gordon Gilbert

Gordon MacKenzie Gilbert (born 10 December 1982 in Witbank, Mpumalanga) is a Scottish-South African football (soccer) player who plays as a left back/central defender in the South African Premier Soccer League.

Hendrik Prinsloo

Between World War I and World War II he was a farmer in the Ermelo in the Eastern Transvaal district.

Janiculum

In Book VIII of the Aeneid by Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), King Evander shows Aeneas (the Trojan hero of this epic poem) the ruins of Saturnia and Janiculum on the Capitoline hill near the Arcadian city of Pallanteum (the future site of Rome) (see line 473, Bk. 8).

Kabokweni Stadium

Kabokweni Stadium is a multi-use stadium in the Kabokweni village, situated next to Elijah Mango College around 4km NorthEast of Kruger Airport, which is roughly 30km NorthEast of Nelspruit, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.

Karoo Thrush

It occurs in South Africa (Little Namaqualand, Karoo and Northern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and part of the North West Province).

Knightsbridge University

In 2000, Coleman Nyathi, an official of the South African province of Mpumalanga, was forced to resign after it was revealed that he had lied about his citizenship and that his academic credentials, including his Knightsbridge University doctoral degree in business administration, were "mail order" distance learning degrees from unaccredited institutions.

Mozambique spitting cobra

The distribution includes Natal,Mpumalanga Province Lowveld region , south-eastern Tanzania and Pemba Island and west to southern Angola and northern Namibia.

Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill

The draft Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill of 2007 expanded on the Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957, defining witchcraft as harmful magic and attempting to regulate the conduct of traditional healers in Mpumalanga.

In June 2007 the Office of the Premier of the Mpumalanga province in South Africa leaked a draft Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill of 2007.

Psychotria capensis

Psychotria capensis (Eckl.) Vatke is a Southern African evergreen shrub or small tree occurring along the east coast from Knysna through the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

Salii

The Salii are also given an origin in connection with Dardanus and the Samothracian Penates, or the Salius who came to Italy with Evander and in the Aeneid competed in the funeral games of Anchises.

Samora Machel Monument

The Samora Machel Monument in Mbuzini, near Komatipoort in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, marks the spot where the plane carrying the then-President of Mozambique crashed in 1986.

South African Class 39-200

The Class 39-200 locomotives were placed in service on the line between the Mpumalanga Lowveld and northern KwaZulu-Natal, working from Lydenburg via Swaziland to Golela in northern KwaZulu-Natal, en route to the coal export harbour at Richards Bay.

South African municipal election, 2011

There were vote boycott campaigns by a number of civil society organisations including Soundz of the South, the Mandela Park Backyarders, the Mitchell's Plain Backyarders Association and various communities such as Blikkiesdorp in Western Cape, Morutsi in Limpopo, King William's Town and Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, Cato Ridge in KwaZulu-Natal, Ermelo in Mpumalanga and elsewhere around the country.

South African wireless community networks

The project is testing if a rural community can take ownership of the network, with a trial community-run WUG near the Kruger National Park in the Mpumalanga Province.

Superior Courts Act, 2013

It reorganised the various High Courts into a single High Court of South Africa, with a division situated in each province, including two new divisions to serve Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

Surprise Moriri

Surprise Mohlomolleng Moriri (born 20 March 1980 in Matibidi, Mpumalanga) is a South African football midfielder and striker for Mamelodi Sundowns and South Africa.

Tete veld aethomys

However, the current best estimate suggests that Tete veld rats are found in Swaziland and northeastern South Africa, where they are found in the North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, and the northern part of Free State province.

Tsoro Deep

He later moved to Secunda in Mpumalanga to stay with his Uncle, who introduced him to contemporary music like: Pop and Soul, American Gospel.

Uplands College

Uplands College is an Anglican co-educational Independent high school located on a picturesque, 110 ha estate near White River in Mpumalanga, South Africa.


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