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unusual facts about Mooi! Weer De Leeuw


Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

The songs were presented in the television show Mooi! Weer De Leeuw.


CJ de Mooi

De Mooi described the events, which saw Kirsan Ilyumzhinov re-elected over Anatoly Karpov, as "a farce of a vote", going on to declare: "You wouldn't believe the blatant breaking of rules and FIDE's written statutes. It's amazing. There wasn't even a pretence of fairness and free speech."

Joyce Barker

Joyce Barker was born in Mooi Rivier, a small town in Natal.

Potchefstroom

According to the South African writer Geoffrey Jenkins, "Others however, attribute the name as having come from the word 'Potscherf', meaning a shard of a broken pot, due to the cracks that appear in the soil of the Mooi River Valley during drought resembling a broken pot".


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