Name:Allanridge
Google count: 24 700
Date: 24 June 2008
Allanridge: (Anconia – Welkom – Whites line, 52 km from Whites)
No cargo.
http://www.freetrans.gov.za/FTD/fs/railfreight/2/index.html
Historic fact:
Named in honour of the late Alan Roberts, whose pioneering geological and prospecting work was key in the eventual discovery of gold and development of the Goldfields, Allanridge was founded as a settlement in 1947, although it was only proclaimed as a town in 1956. Home of the Lorraine Gold Mine, one of the biggest in the Goldfields, Allanridge is a town of sunshine, and the thousands of flamingos who make the area their home provide natural beauty.
Nyakallong location was established by the mine workers working at Loraine mine and started as dwelling for mine workers only as many were expected to have their permanent place were they come from. Nyakallong is about 3 kilometres from Allanridge. It consists with various ethnics groups, Ba-Sotho, Amaxhosa and Amaxulu as they form part languages mainly spoken.
http://www.matjhabeng.co.za/towns.htm
All the history and more can be found here: http://www.internext.co.za/welkompub/history1.htm
Other interesting info:
ALLANRIDGE (GOLDFIELDS, FREE STATE, SOUTH AFRICA)
Other towns in the area: Situated between Kroonstad, Allanridge and Welkom, Odendaalsrus once formed the centre of mining activities in the area. Today a tranquil town with its own ...
www.matjhabeng.co.za/towns.htm
Where to stay: You don't want to stay here - read this gory story:
On Friday, 23 May 2008 the members of Allanridge SAPS were patrolling the R30 road between Allanridge and Bothaville when they saw a suspicious object on the side of the road. When they investigated they discovered a human body lying with the its inside the water drain pipe. The deceased was an African woman aged between 18 and 25. Her face was burnt and she had also sustained 14 stabwounds. The police took the body to a mortuary where a post-mortem was conducted. The results of the post-mortem revealed that the deceased had been burnt with diesel and was stabbed with a sharp object. The stabbing caused her death.
She was wearing a pair of blue jeans, gold earrings and a bracelet.
It is suspected that the incident occurred between 19 and 21 May 2008, because the body was not yet decomposed when the police found it on 23 May 2008. The deceased might be from Bothaville, Allanridge or Odendaalsrus.
Anyone who has information or is looking for their missing next of kin can contact Detective Inspector Jerry Tsoeu of Allanridge at 078 291 0340 / 057 452 3817 or Captain Koos Venter at 082 466 8193 / 057 452 3818.
Source: http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=8728
Where to play golf: ALLANRIDGE GOLF CLUB Allanridge, Free State, South Africa Nearest Routes: R30. Quick Club Finder, All Clubs Near The R30, All Clubs In Allanridge ...
www.g-i.co.za/clubs/?c=243
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Addo (F15) 10
Addo - immediately one thinks of elephants.
Let us see what we get on the internet: 213 000 hits on Google South Africa!
"The more than 450 elephants in the park are the main attraction but you will also encounter buffalo black rhino warthog eland kudu and a variety of buck ..."
www.places.co.za/html/
Other places to stay: www.safarinow.com/destinations/addo/hub.aspx
A mega walk:
http://www.edentoaddo.co.za/walk.html
"The Great White shark and seasonal Southern Right whale in the marine section complete the Big Seven.
Situated in the malaria-free Eastern Cape, only a short drive away from Port Elizabeth, the park stretches across five biomes from the vast Darlington Lake, Zuurberg Mountains and dense bushveld of the Sundays River Valley to the indigenous forests at Woody Cape.
These forests hug the largest coastal dune fields south of the Namib, overlooking the park's marine area at Bird Island and St Croix Island."
http://www.southafrica.info/travel/wildlife/addo-200508.htm
Let us see what we get on the internet: 213 000 hits on Google South Africa!
"The more than 450 elephants in the park are the main attraction but you will also encounter buffalo black rhino warthog eland kudu and a variety of buck ..."
www.places.co.za/html/
Other places to stay: www.safarinow.com/destinations/addo/hub.aspx
A mega walk:
http://www.edentoaddo.co.za/walk.html
"The Great White shark and seasonal Southern Right whale in the marine section complete the Big Seven.
Situated in the malaria-free Eastern Cape, only a short drive away from Port Elizabeth, the park stretches across five biomes from the vast Darlington Lake, Zuurberg Mountains and dense bushveld of the Sundays River Valley to the indigenous forests at Woody Cape.
These forests hug the largest coastal dune fields south of the Namib, overlooking the park's marine area at Bird Island and St Croix Island."
http://www.southafrica.info/travel/wildlife/addo-200508.htm
Friday, June 13, 2008
Aberdeen Road (E 14) 1 -7
Entry No 1
Aberdeen Road (S) - Hits SA: 2010 (11 June 2008) incl. actual roads called "Aberdeen"
(like Aberdeen Road, Industrial Sites, Benoni; Aberdeen Road, MUTARE, ZIMBABWE. Woodstock "A View from Victoria Road looking down Aberdeen Road" http://woodstock.org.za/2007/08/05/woodstock-then-and-now/;Graaff-Reinet Golf Club Aberdeen Road, off Church Street, Graaff-Reinet; Sierra Leone - the Amputee Camp at Aberdeen Road, Freetown, the residents said that they felt ...
www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No80/Chap8.html; 4 X 4 TRAIL OVER TOORBERG. LINK UP WITH THE ABERDEEN ROAD http://gis.deat.gov.za/isrdp/T_Att.asp?Qid=K1214&Att_ID=1822;Aberdeen Road. Rondebosch. 7800.)
Location: Aberdeen Road Eastern Cape South Africa
mbendi (link to Google Earth) : http://www.mbendi.co.za/travel/trns/22/f856.htm
Look at this one:
http://www.routes.co.za/ec/aberdeenroad/index.html
Interesting facts:Military history The attack on Willowmore: http://rapidttp.com/milhist/vol094dd.html
http://www.countryroads.co.za/aberdeen-road.html
THE TRANSIT OF VENUS: Apart from the local observations at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope and Natal Observatories the British transit committee send out to South Africa another four instruments and they were manned at two sights, namely Montagu Road (renamed Touwsrivier) and Aberdeen Road. All the South African sights experienced clear conditions although a strong wind was a factor at Montagu Road. All stations managed to make successful observations. For more information on the British efforts in South Africa read the article by Koorts - MNASSA April 2004, Vol. 63 nos. 3 & 4, pp. 34 - 57.
http://www.saao.ac.za/assa/html/his-exp-transit_venus.html
"Humans are very inquisitive. We want answers to questions but do not always know how to answer them. For most of the general public an answer that borders on myths, based on no factual basis, usually suffice. For most of mankind's history anyone could have given you any old answer and we could not have known if the answer was correct. To find the correct answer took millennia and a great many brilliant minds spend unknown hours pondering over the problem, instead of indulging in life's other distractions. 300 Years ago the transits of Venus were seen as the solution to the problem. It sadly turned out no to be so. The Sun Earth distance answer had to be solved by other methods.
Using the transits of Venus as a method turned out to be costly with lots of wasted energy and talent. It was an impractical method. However, the moral of the story is that even though with hindsight we tend to criticize and know better, at one time in our past it was a brilliant idea. Actually it was probably the best idea we ever had to solve this particular problem. More than that, it still is a good idea. Today we have the technology to solve the practical aspects, which flummoxed the 18th century astronomers. But because the distance problem was successfully solved by other means we don't need the transit method anymore. Sad, isn't it?"
Scary, isn't it? http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-exp-transit_venus.html http://www.eternitypress.co.za/freshair/chronicl.htm
Launch of Arrive Alive N2 Traffic Operational CentreWe cannot allow once again to witness horrific accidents like the ones we saw on the R61- Aberdeen road where passengers were scattered like sheep after a ...
www.capegateway.gov.za/eng/pubs/speeches/2004/Dec/94749
Then you have: http://www.routes.co.za/
Photos: http://www.routes.co.za/sitemap.html
Aberdeen Tourism Bureau
Grey Str
Aberdeen
Phone number: 049-846-0014
Aberdeen is named after Aberdeen in Scotland, the birthplace of the Reverend Andrew Murray, who was Dutch Reformed Church minister in Graaff-Reinet.
Attractions
Also see the neighbouring towns
The steeple of the Dutch Reformed Church is 51.5m high, leaning off-centre by 45.7cm.Tracks of dinosaurs can be seen in sedimentary rocks.
Property in Aberdeen: www.propnetsa.com/propertyinsouthafrica.php
http://sites.google.com/site/saplacenames/south-africa/a/atlantis
Weblinks: http://www.aberdeen.org.za/ Transit of Venus 2012 Click here for some awesome video
Aberdeen Road (S) - Hits SA: 2010 (11 June 2008) incl. actual roads called "Aberdeen"
(like Aberdeen Road, Industrial Sites, Benoni; Aberdeen Road, MUTARE, ZIMBABWE. Woodstock "A View from Victoria Road looking down Aberdeen Road" http://woodstock.org.za/2007/08/05/woodstock-then-and-now/;Graaff-Reinet Golf Club Aberdeen Road, off Church Street, Graaff-Reinet; Sierra Leone - the Amputee Camp at Aberdeen Road, Freetown, the residents said that they felt ...
www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No80/Chap8.html; 4 X 4 TRAIL OVER TOORBERG. LINK UP WITH THE ABERDEEN ROAD http://gis.deat.gov.za/isrdp/T_Att.asp?Qid=K1214&Att_ID=1822;Aberdeen Road. Rondebosch. 7800.)
Location: Aberdeen Road Eastern Cape South Africa
mbendi (link to Google Earth) : http://www.mbendi.co.za/travel/trns/22/f856.htm
Look at this one:
http://www.routes.co.za/ec/aberdeenroad/index.html
Interesting facts:Military history The attack on Willowmore: http://rapidttp.com/milhist/vol094dd.html
http://www.countryroads.co.za/aberdeen-road.html
THE TRANSIT OF VENUS: Apart from the local observations at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope and Natal Observatories the British transit committee send out to South Africa another four instruments and they were manned at two sights, namely Montagu Road (renamed Touwsrivier) and Aberdeen Road. All the South African sights experienced clear conditions although a strong wind was a factor at Montagu Road. All stations managed to make successful observations. For more information on the British efforts in South Africa read the article by Koorts - MNASSA April 2004, Vol. 63 nos. 3 & 4, pp. 34 - 57.
http://www.saao.ac.za/assa/html/his-exp-transit_venus.html
"Humans are very inquisitive. We want answers to questions but do not always know how to answer them. For most of the general public an answer that borders on myths, based on no factual basis, usually suffice. For most of mankind's history anyone could have given you any old answer and we could not have known if the answer was correct. To find the correct answer took millennia and a great many brilliant minds spend unknown hours pondering over the problem, instead of indulging in life's other distractions. 300 Years ago the transits of Venus were seen as the solution to the problem. It sadly turned out no to be so. The Sun Earth distance answer had to be solved by other methods.
Using the transits of Venus as a method turned out to be costly with lots of wasted energy and talent. It was an impractical method. However, the moral of the story is that even though with hindsight we tend to criticize and know better, at one time in our past it was a brilliant idea. Actually it was probably the best idea we ever had to solve this particular problem. More than that, it still is a good idea. Today we have the technology to solve the practical aspects, which flummoxed the 18th century astronomers. But because the distance problem was successfully solved by other means we don't need the transit method anymore. Sad, isn't it?"
Scary, isn't it? http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-exp-transit_venus.html http://www.eternitypress.co.za/freshair/chronicl.htm
Launch of Arrive Alive N2 Traffic Operational CentreWe cannot allow once again to witness horrific accidents like the ones we saw on the R61- Aberdeen road where passengers were scattered like sheep after a ...
www.capegateway.gov.za/eng/pubs/speeches/2004/Dec/94749
Then you have: http://www.routes.co.za/
Photos: http://www.routes.co.za/sitemap.html
Aberdeen Tourism Bureau
Grey Str
Aberdeen
Phone number: 049-846-0014
Aberdeen is named after Aberdeen in Scotland, the birthplace of the Reverend Andrew Murray, who was Dutch Reformed Church minister in Graaff-Reinet.
Attractions
Also see the neighbouring towns
The steeple of the Dutch Reformed Church is 51.5m high, leaning off-centre by 45.7cm.Tracks of dinosaurs can be seen in sedimentary rocks.
Property in Aberdeen: www.propnetsa.com/propertyinsouthafrica.php
http://sites.google.com/site/saplacenames/south-africa/a/atlantis
Weblinks: http://www.aberdeen.org.za/ Transit of Venus 2012 Click here for some awesome video
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