Groblersdal

Information about Groblersdal

Groblersdal is a farming town situated 32 km North of the 178 million m3 Loskop Dam in Limpopo. The town is South Africa's second largest irrigation settlement. The main crops in this man-made floodplain are cotton, tobacco, citrus fruit, table grapes, maize, wheat, vegetables, sunflower seeds, peanuts, lucerne and peaches.

Groblersdal was layout on the farm Klipbank as a result of Loskop Dam and named after the original owner WJ Grobler.

See also

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50 largest cities in South Africa by population
Johannesburg Durban Cape Town East Rand Pretoria Port Elizabeth East London Vereeniging Bloemfontein Thohoyandou Pietermaritzburg Polokwane Bushbuckridge Louis Trichardt Nelspruit Mthatha Welkom Rustenburg Mount Ayliff Greater Tzaneen Qwa-Qwa Klerksdorp Brits Nkomazi Newcastle Mokopane Krugersdorp Richards Bay Gcuwa Libode Witbank Burgersfort Ngwaritsi Mafikeng KwaMhlanga Flagstaff Idutywa Bizana Mdutjana Greater Giyani Mogwase Lebowakgomop Ladysmith Highveld Ridge Eshowe Groblersdal Duiwelsklook Port Shepstone Ulundi Carletonville
Coordinates:
Limpopo

Area 123,900 km²
Population (2001) 5,273,637
Languages Sepedi, Venda, Tsonga
Races Black (97.3%)
White (2.4%)
Coloured (0.2%)
Asian (0.
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Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium sp.), a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India, and Africa.
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Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana.

Tobacco has been growing on the American Continent since about 6000 BC and began being used by native cultures at about 3000 BC.
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Citrus
L.

Species & major hybrids

Species
Citrus aurantifolia—Key lime
Citrus maxima—Pomelo
Citrus medica—Citron
Citrus reticulata—Mandarin & Tangerine

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GRAPE, or GRAphics Programming Environment is a software development environment for mathematical visualization, especially differential geometry and continuum mechanics.
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Z. mays

Binomial name
Zea mays
L.

Maize (IPA: /ˈmeɪz/) (Zea mays L. ssp.
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Vegetable is a term which generally refers to an edible part of a plant. The definition is traditional rather than scientific and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are normally considered vegetables.
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H. annuus

Binomial name
Helianthus annuus
L.

The sunflower (Helianthus annuus
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A. hypogaea

Binomial name
Arachis hypogaea
L.

This article is about the legume. For the comic strip, see Peanuts. For other uses, see Peanut (disambiguation).

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M. sativa

Binomial name
Medicago sativa
L.

Subspecies

Medicago sativa subsp. ambigua (Trautv.) Tutin
Medicago sativa subsp.
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P. persica

Binomial name
Prunus persica
(L.) Batsch

The Peach (Prunus persica) is a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach.
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Jaco van der Westhuyzen
Date of birth 06 1978 (age 0)
Place of birth Groblersdal, Mpumalanga
Height 1.8
Weight 88
Rugby union career
Position Fullback Fly-half Wing
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Rank Municipality
1 Johannesburg, Gauteng
2 Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 3 090 117
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Johannesburg
Johannesburg skyline from Gold Reef City
Motto: Unity in Development
Location of Johannesburg
Map of South Africa showing Johannesburg's location
Coordinates:
Country South Africa
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Durban
eThekwini

Flag
Map of South Africa showing Durban's location.
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Cape Town
Kaapstad, iKapa
Panorama of the Cape Town city bowl from the Waterfront to Table Mountain

Flag
Nickname: The mother city, or The Tavern of the Seas
Motto:
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East Rand is the name of the urban eastern part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of
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Pretoria
The central area of Pretoria viewed from the Union Buildings.

Flag
Motto: Praestantia Praevaleat Pretoria (May Pretoria Be Pre-eminent In Excellence)
Country South Africa
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Port Elizabeth
Ibhayi Xhosa

Flag
Nickname: The Friendly City
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (blue) within the Eastern Cape (dark grey) within South Africa
Coordinates:
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East London (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: eMonti) is a city on the southeast coast of South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province at 32.97°S and 27.87°E. [1] .
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Vereeniging is a city in Gauteng province, South Africa, with a population of more than 350,000. It is also one of the constituent parts of the Vaal Triangle region and was formerly situated in the Transvaal province.
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Bloemfontein
Nickname: The city of roses
Coordinates:
Country South Africa
Province Free State
Officially founded 1846
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Thohoyandou is the administrative and legislative centre for this Venda region in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Previously it was the capital of the Bantustan of Venda.

It is one of the fastest growing towns in Limpopo Province.
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Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
Map of KwaZulu-Natal showing Pietermaritzburg's location.
Coordinates:
Country South Africa
Province KwaZulu-Natal
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Polokwane (renamed from Pietersburg) is a city, municipality and the capital of the Limpopo province in South Africa.

History

In the 1840s, Voortrekkers under the leadership of Andries Potgieter established Zoutpansbergdorp, a town 100 km to the north west.
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Louis Trichardt (for a short period known as Makhado) is a town situated at the foot of the Soutpansberg mountain range in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is in a fertile region where litchis, bananas, mangoes and nuts are produced.
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Nelspruit is a city of 221,474 people (2000) situated in northeastern South Africa. It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province (formerly Eastern Transvaal). Located on the Crocodile River (known as the Krokodil
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Mthatha (formerly Umtata) is the main town of the King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality in Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town has an airport, previously known by the name K D Matanzima Airport[1] after former leader Kaiser Matanzima.
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