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unusual facts about Middelburg, Mpumalanga


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.


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.

1972 UFO sightings in the eastern Cape

At 8:15 pm on 12 November four soldiers at the Rosmead military camp near Middelburg in the eastern Cape, observed a rotating set of red lights near their duty room, but these went out before they could investigate.

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.

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.

Coenraad Breytenbach

Coenraad Lodewyk Breytenbach (born Middelburg, 10 November 1970) is a former South African rugby league and Russian rugby union player.

Company of Merchant Adventurers of London

The merchants who had frequented Middelburg since 1582 were invited to return in 1587 to the (now independent) United Provinces.

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau (Elisabeth Flandrika) (Middelburg, 26 April 1577 – Sedan, 3 September 1642) was the second daughter of prince William of Orange and his third spouse Charlotte of Bourbon.

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.

G. J. Renier

Both his grandfathers were from Ostend, West Flanders, his grandmothers were locals from Flushing and Middelburg.

Gerard von Brucken Fock

Gerard von Brucken Fock (also known as Geert) was born as Gerardus Hubertus Galenus Fock in the Ter Hooge castle, Koudekerke, in the outskirts of Middelburg where he spent the summers of his early childhood.

Giles Scott-Smith

Giles Scott-Smith (High Wycombe 1968) is Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg and Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation since World War II at the University of Leiden.

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.

Johannes van der Palm

He was scientific advisor to Middelburg (1788) before becoming a member of the Provisional Board of Zeeland (1795), planting a Liberty Tree.

John James Clements

John James Clements VC (Middelburg, Cape Colony 19 June 1872 – 18 June 1937) was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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).

Klaas Sybrandi

In 1830 he became minister of the Mennonite congregation in Nijmegen (in the far east of the Netherlands), in 1832 he refused a position in Middelburg (in the far southwest) but in 1834 he did accept a new position in Groningen, a university city in the north of the country, to lead the congregation there.

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.

Middelburg

Roggeveen discovered Easter Island/Rapa Nui in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1722.

Middelburg, Mpumalanga

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

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.

Pieter Cornelis Boutens

After finishing the Gymnasium Middelburg, he began to study classical languages in 1890 at the University of Utrecht, and graduated in 1899 on a study of the Greek comedy writer Aristophanes.

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.

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.

Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands

However, the reason to settle in Amsterdam was not merely voluntary; many crypto-Jews, or Marranos, had been refused admission in trading centers like Middelburg and Haarlem, and because of that ended up in Amsterdam.

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.

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.

Wilhelm Stahl Provincial Hospital

Wilhelm Stahl Provincial Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital for the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality area in Middelburg, Eastern Cape in South Africa.

William Caton

At Flushing and Middelburg he found English congregations, and was roughly handled at both places for interrupting their services.

William Methwold

At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an English merchant, and served him for four years in London and then five in Middelburg, Netherlands.

Zacharias Janssen

William de Boreel, who visited Middelburg to research the invention in 1655, interviewed Janssen's son Johannes.


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