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11 unusual facts about Limpopo


.458 Express

The .458 Express is developed in South Africa by Professor Koos Badenhorst of Haenertsburg in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

Aloe excelsa

It is found over a relatively small area of south-central Africa from the Magato mountains in Limpopo province of South Africa at its southern limit northwards along the southern side of the central watershed of Zimbabwe and extending into hilly locations on the south side of the Zambezi river in Mozambique, with two outlying populations forming its northern limits around Mulanje mountain in Malawi and in the Kafue Gorge just across the Zambezi river in Zambia.

Bally Smart

Mapidima "Bally" Smart (born 27 April 1989 in Polokwane, Limpopo) is a South African footballer, who last played as a winger or striker for Skonto Riga in the Latvian Higher League.

Capricorn FM

Capricorn FM is the first commercial radio station in northern province of Limpopo in South Africa.

Choppies

The South African operations are executed through a wholly owned subsidiary Choppies Supermakets SA (Proprietary) Limited, which operates in the Limpopo, North-West and Free State provinces.

Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

The Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa renamed the Northern Province to Limpopo, altered the procedure for intervention by the national government in a failing provincial government and intervention by a provincial government in a failing municipality, and expanded the powers of the provincial executive when it intervenes in a municipality.

Freylinia tropica

Freylinia tropica is a Southern African shrub with lax, spreading branches and found in the South African province of Limpopo and in Zimbabwe.

Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill

In 1995 the Minister of Safety and Security of the Northern Province commissioned the Commission of Enquiry into Witchcraft Violence and Ritual Murder in the Northern Province of the Republic of South Africa chaired by Professor Victor Ralushai.

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.

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.

Thomas Madigage

Madigage died in a car crash in the early hours of Friday 19 October 2012, after hitting a donkey crossing a road near Burgersfort, Limpopo.


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102 Squadron SAAF

The squadron area of responsibility is from north of Polokwane (Pietersburg) to the Limpopo River and is used for reconnaissance flights along the South African and Zimbabwe and Botswana borders.

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.

Blouberg

Blouberg Local Municipality, a municipality in Limpopo Province named after the range

François Coillard

After the missionaries crossed the Limpopo River, Shona chiefs would not welcome the group; instead, the party was forced to go to Bulawayo, the headquarters of King Lobengula of the Ndebele people.

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).

Lephalale

Lephalale, is situated between 23°30' and 24°00' south latitude and 27°30' and 28°00' east longitude and the town is positioned west of the Mokolo river, a tributary to the Limpopo river, 820 meters above sea level.

Limpopo Division

Until 1994, the area that is now Limpopo was part of the Transvaal Province and was within the jurisdiction of the Transvaal Provincial Division (now the Gauteng Division).

Limpopo Water Management Area

Limpopo WMA, or Limpopo Water Management Area (coded: 1), Include the following major rivers : the Limpopo River, Matlabas River, Mokolo River, Lephalala River, Mogalakwena River, Sand River and Nzhelele River, and covers the following dams.

Middelburg, Mpumalanga

Middelburg was established as Nasareth, (root from dry land), in 1864 by the Voortrekkers on the banks of the Klein Olifants River.

Mokopane Biodiversity Conservation Centre

The center is located in the north entrance to the town of Mokopane, in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

Narayangaon

The nearest being Yaoundé on the Limpopo river, is about 9 km to the North.

New Limpopo Bridge Ltd

Under a Build-Operate-Transfer concession agreement, New Limpopo Bridge (Pvt) Ltd has built and now operates the Alfred Beit Road Bridge over the Limpopo River between Musina in South Africa and Beitbridge in 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.

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.

Tenda Madima

Madima was born in Venda, Limpopo, and holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape.