Tzaneen (K 6)

Name: Tzaneen


Province: Limpopo Province
Region: Valley of the Olifants
Town: Tzaneen
Tourist Route: African Ivory Route

Tzaneen is the second largest town in the Limpopo situated at the foot of the imposing Wolkberg Mountains. More than 80 000 people reside in its area of jurisdiction. The town is the main trading center for more than 800 000 people living within a 30 km radius.
Tzaneen, named after "tsaneng" (gathering place) or "tsana" (basket of hills), is a busy town in the picturesque Letaba district, comprising 20 000 km of tropical and subtropical farming in the Letsitele River Valley. The "capital" of the region, the town is the province's centre for subtropical agriculture and winter vegetables. It produces the majority of the country's mangos, avocado pears, paw-paws, tea and coffee, and contributes substantially to the total production of timber, citrus, litchis and other crops.

Tzaneen is wellendowed with natural resources necessary for economic growth: fertile land, abundant water supplies, access to labour and a sub-tropical climate. Timber has been grown in the area since the turn of the century and nearly forty sawmills are in full production processing pine and bluegum trees.

Within easy reach there are fascinating archaeological sites, mighty baobab trees, wildlife and nature reserves, as well as a superb range of tourism facilities. Situated below the scenic splendour of Magoebaskloof in a subtropical district, Tzaneen offers the visitor a change of scenery at almost every turn of the road. The mountainous landscape, the subtropical climate, the lush indigenous vegetation which alternates with plantations, and the largely unspoilt natural environment, make this picturesque area one of the most attractive recreation and tourist areas in South Africa.

The Modjadji Cycad Reserve contains the largest concentration of a single cycad species in the world. This particular species (Encephalartos transvenosus) dates back 50 to 60 million years and was abundant during the heyday of the dinosaurs. Some of the cycads stand over 13 m in height. The Cycad Reserve was declared a national monument in 1936. Nearby, in comparative isolation and protected from visitors, lives the Rain Queen, and her people the Bolobedu, whose ancestors lived in this area and nurtured the cycads for over three centuries.

There are more cultural treasures. Discover the Shangaan, Sotho and Venda people each with their intriguing legends, cultures, crafts, arts, dances and ethnic lifestyles. The Tsonga Kraal Museum (in the Hans Merensky Nature Reserve) is a living museum depicting the lifestyle of the Shangaan/Tsonga people.

Tzaneen Dam Nature Reserve, is a popular venue for anglers and campers. About 70 km east of this is the Hans Merensky Nature Reserve which includes the Eiland Mineral Spa (named after a large island of 35 ha situated on the farm in the Letaba River). The area is rich in archaeological remains. The Reserve conserves a section of the arid lowveld veld type. A large variety of animals roam the reserve, including the rare sable antelope and grysbok.
Visitors to Tzaneen are assured a relaxing stay in the quiet historical streets of a genuine hospitable, economically significant town. Not to be missed is the quaint Tzaneen Museum. It hosts ethnological artefacts such as weapons, pottery, beadwork, the largest collection of pole carvings in the country, royal drums from the Rain Queen Modjadji, sacred drums as well as a collection of prehistoric pottery, almost 2 000 years old.

One of the interesting persons that left their mark was Dr Siegfried Annecke, at the forefront of the battle against malaria that was an extremely serious problem in the district in the 1930s. The annual number of patients averaged 4 000 at that time. Largely through his efforts the incidence of malaria decreased steadily and by 1966 was virtually eradicated. Tzaneen is still malaria free. The Research Institute in Tzaneen, which today is involved in both malaria and bilharzia research, carries the name of Siegfried Annecke.
Ofcolaco is another settlement with an interesting story. It was established by a group of redundant British Regular and Indian Army officers who formed the Officers Colonial Land Company - whence came the name Ofcolaco - and they set out to tame this corner of Africa. The Ofcolaco Club still thrives and some "pukkah" traditions are observed.

Over the last couple of years the Tzaneen area has developed enormously to cater for the increasing market of overseas and local travellers. In so doing it has geared itself up and can now offer a huge assortment of accommodation facilities to suit any need. From camping facilities to caravan parks, self catering cottages, log cabins and chalets, guesthouses and B&Bs, lodges and five-star hotels.

Activities and Attractions
Commonwealth Plantation
This 10,7 ha plantation contains three varieties of Eucalyptus trees planted as an experimental plot in 1914. In 1939 the plot was "dedicated" to the Commonwealth Forestry Commission when their annual conference was held in South Africa. These are magnificent trees, averaging 55 m in height, and the atmosphere inside this small manmade forest is serene. The plantation is situated within Sapekoe's Middelkop Tea Estate, and is virtually next to the R71, 7 km from the Tzaneen/Duivelskloof road turn-off.

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Tylden (G 14)

Name: Tylden

Eastern Cape

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Tygerberg (B 16)

Name: Tygerberg

The Tygerberg area is situated south of the historic town of Stellenbosch, tucked between the mountains and the sea.

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Tweespruit (F11)

Name: Tweespruit

Tweespruit is a small dairy farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It started out as an experimental farm set up on an old British Boer War settlement which was between "two creeks" hence the name.




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Tweeling (G 11)

Name: Tweeling

http://www.sa-meanders.co.za/pubphp/town.php?x_town_id=785

The small community of Tweeling - the name of a small town situated in the Free State province of South Africa, is situated alongside the R51 route between Reitz and 22 km from Frankfort. Although a typical Free State Province rural settlement, the historical significance of this town dates back to the days of the Anglo-Boer War.
The settlement of Tweeling was established on the farms of Tweelingspruit and Tweelingkop in 1920. The name Tweeling, meaning Twins, refers to the two similar hillocks that are close to this town.

The following activities are available:

Anglo-Boer War Remnants
Festival Site
Geese Farming
Goose-down Products
Historical significance
Horse riding
Hunting
San Rock Artwork




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http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2009/provinces/freestate/pdf/tweeling.pdf

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Tulbachweg (C 16)

Name: Tulbachweg

STEENBERG, STELLENBOSCH, STEURHOF, STIKLAND, STOCK ROAD, STRAND, SUNNY COVE, THORNTON, TULBACHWEG, TYGERBERG, UNIBELL, VAN DER STEL, VASCO, VLOTTENBURG ...


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Tuinplaas (H 7)

Name: Tuinplaas
These are located on Tuinplaas,. Nutfield and Crecy farms. The farms are Naboomspruit and the Roedtan commercial farming area

These are located on Tuinplaas,. Nutfield and Crecy farms. The farms are Naboomspruit and the Roedtan commercial farming area. These ... Haakdoornkuil, Izama, Bysonderheid, Eugene N. Marais, Tuinplaas, Unitas, Mabaleng, Mahlatse,. Matswapilong, Mogomaneng, Mojatau, Mokhari Farm, Motlhaping, Sekatekate ... Tuinplaas. - Naboomspruit Police Station: Has 64 staff members and 16 vehicles. The SAPS in the town of. Modimolle has a specialised unit dealing with murder

by H de Villiers - 1972 - Cited by 5 - Related articlesOtjiseva mandible resembles those of Skildergat (Fish Hoek) and Tuinplaas (Spring-. bok Flats), but it is not as robust as is evidenced by the robusticity indices ... have been ascribed to the skeletons from Tuinplaas-Springbok Flats (Hughes,. 1971) and Boskop (Thompson, 1917). ... Tuinplaas human skeleton from Springbok Flats, Transvaal (pending). KEEN, J. A. 1947. A statistical study of the differences between Bantu, Hottentot and Bushman skulls. ...

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Tugela (M12)

Name:Tugela

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Tshiawelo (F 9)

Name:Tshiawelo


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"District 9 is an excellent showcase for our talents and locations, having been filmed entirely in our city."

It was shot in Kliptown and Tshiawelo in Soweto and in downtown Joburg in June and December 2008. The shacks that were used for the alien's homes are actual shacks in Tshiawelo from which residents are being moved to Lehae, a purpose-built government housing estate. They were also used for Tsotsi, the film set in Joburg that went on to win an Oscar in 2006.

"Soweto is becoming a popular location for both international and local filmmakers; [this] is not surprising as it has so much to offer, particularly when it comes to gritty realism and feedback," Tselane said.

Co-written and directed by South African-born Neill Blomkamp, District 9 was produced by Peter Jackson, famous for his work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Blomkamp shared writing duties with Terri Tatchell.



Read more: http://www.joburg.org.za/content/view/4221/245/#ixzz0mzCPisPd


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Tshesebe (E 5)

Name:Tshesebe

Location of Tshesebe, Botswana (Latitude: 20° 45' 0 S, Longitude: 27° 34' 0 E)

Top Banana is an outreach project based in Tshesebe, Botswana


Tshesebe village is a close knit society with majority of the people generally relatives, they talk a lot about village issues. No incident would literally escape their attention.
http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=1&aid=88&dir=2007/February/Friday2

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Trompsburg (E 12)

Name: Trompsburg

TROMPSBURG
It was initially named Jagersfontein Road and Hamilton, after the British Governor of the Orange River Colony from 1902 to 1910. Trompsburg was laid out on the farm Middelwater, owned by the brothers Jan and Bastiaan Tromp, when the railway line reached here in 1891. It subsequently became known as Trompsburg.




http://www.southafrica.org.za/tour-sa-transgariep-journey.html


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Trichardt (H 10)

Name: Trichardt

TRICHARDT, MPUMALANGA

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(2) Transnet Freight Rail has no passenger trains operating in Bethal.

(3) (a) The incident at the Bethal Transnet Freight Rail Depot during the evening of 20 April 2008 is still under investigation. (b) The emergency response cost of the incident was R9 400, 00. The incident cost per locomotive is approximately R30 000, 00 while the cost for the incident is estimated at R4.5 million. (c) The train and/or railway station or depot was non-operational for approximately 24 hours.

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Triangle (H 4)

Name: Triangle
The return trip to Durban was via Chiredzi, Triangle, Bubi River, and Beit Bridge / Musina, and then along the N1 and N3, arriving back in Durban


http://reports.overland.co.za/Peter_Tiedt/Gonarezhou_April_2009.pdf

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Trapper's Valley (G 15)

Name:Trapper's Valley

EASTERN CAPE COMMUNITIES POUR THEIR HEARTS OUT TO GOVERNMENT
People in Makana and Ndlambe municipality areas this week poured their hearts out to the Eastern Cape political leadership about community issues that impact on their livelihoods, leading the realisation of interactive governance through the Outreach Programme.

Makhenkesi Stofile with his entire Executive Council, in its totality for the first time since the acquittal of Health MEC, Dr Bevan Goqwana from fraud charges, met an estimated 10 000 people in various community, stakeholder, public meetings and visits to projects.

In the Ndlambe Municipality coastal area, the executive heard about the depressing effect of the legislation banning vehicles from beaches in the economy of towns like Port Alfred and Bokness. Residents told Premier Makhenkesi Stofile and Economic Affairs, Tourism and Environmental Affairs MEC, Enoch Godongwana (in separate meetings), that there should be no blanket application of laws that govern access to the use of beaches. "For the Eastern Cape there should be central control in Bisho," they said. Businessmen told Mr Godongwana that since the introduction of the legislation their sales for 4X4s had dwindled and revenue generated from servicing and fuel drastically affected.

The communities moved on to request that amendments be made to the legislation since "indeed there was a need to have control measures for beaches". MEC Godongwana concurred that strict measures were needed for beaches to ensure that the environment was protected to be enjoyed by all of the country's generations, even though he expressed concern about the constitutionality of having different rules governing in one country.

Like the Premier, MEC Godongwana agreed that the community in the Ndlambe coastal area needed to draw up a discussion document on ways to deal with the situation. He instructed the community to make inputs around the issue and set the ball rolling. "Where we need to entertain an argument from is an environment which says ye we have started from the extreme," he said, "In that case we may have to look into some of the proposals that are emerging. But what I want to argue is that we need to agree that we need strict regulations and we may need to look at certain exemptions on those regulations." Perlemoen poaching is among concerns that were raised. It was said banning of vehicles at beaches further compounded the problem as it restrained patrols.

Further inland Ndlambe communities complained about absence of job opportunities, lack of government support for farming projects, availability of water, veterinarian services and poor state of roads. Agriculture and Land Affairs MEC, Max Mamase, had no praises for the majority of black emerging farmers, accusing them of tardiness and waiting for government to do everything for them. He consequently called on them to form partnerships with their white counterparts to ensure that rich agricultural land did not lie fallow. "People should apply their minds to farming to play it by heart. There are people who boast about having voted wanting government to do things for them," he said. "There is no responsible government that can spoon feed people."

On the other hand Education MEC, Stone Sizani heard about the plight of farm-school learners. School governing bodies in Trappers Valley, near Bathurst, told MEC Sizani how poverty influenced attendance in schools. Subsequent to the failure of feeding schemes parents were asked to make food donations, but given their poverty levels, they struggled to assist as well. Other concerns were non-availability of transport for learners, absence of electricity in farm schools, lack of opportunities for learners who passed matric, non-existent medical centres and school libraries.

MEC Sizani said the school-feeding scheme would resume on 22 July this year. He also committed the department to working with the Labour Department ensuring that farmers assisted their workers to sign forms for transport. "A problem with farmers is that they might refuse to assist, because that form requires that they divulge how much they pay their workers," he said. Coming to the issue of assisting learners who want to study beyond matric, he said they should produce good results to get access to the Eastern Cape provincial government bursary fund.

Enquiries: Mncedi Mgwigwi at 083 617 3840/ mgwigwi@yahoo.com

Issued by Office of the Premier, Eastern Cape

28 June 2002


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Touwsrivier (C 15)

Name: Touwsrivier

In 1877 a railway station was built here and named Montagu Road. In 1883 the name was changed to Touwsriver. It became a municipality in 1962.

The expanding Kimberley Diamond Boom in the early 1870's made it essential for the Cape government to secure a rail link to the north. An obstacle to achieving this was the lack of a suitable route folded belt mountains of the Cape.

After an earlier failed attempt to locate a route, the Hex River Pass route was re-examined in 1874. The appointed engineer, Wells Hood, under the instruction of the railway engineer Thomas Brounger, found a potential route which snaked up 2,353ft (735m) from Worcester to the top of the Karoo mountains east of the Hex River Valley, with gradients no more than 1:40 (which is very steep by modern standards). In addition, he proposed that a short tunnel would be required.

Thomas Brounger's route through the Hex River Pass was selected by 1876 with the line to follow the route from Worcester through De Doorns, Touws River, Matjiesfontein and on to Beaufort West.

As with most early railway lines in the country, the route served an important role in the development of these Karoo towns.

The then standard wide gauge track of 4'8" could not be accommodated economically on the tight bends of the Hex River Pass. A decision was thus made by the Cape Government to install the track at 3'6". Subsequently a decision was taken to convert all tracks to the Cape Gauge of 3'6". In further efforts to construct the pass cheaply and quickly, sleepers were laid on the ground without ballast in certain areas and had to be corrected later. The maximum possible gradient and tightest curves were used to avoid extra work and expense. Between 600 and 1000 English "Navies" were brought out to work on the construction of the line under Brounger and his railway contractor, Pauling. High wages has to be paid to these English labourers who specialised in road and rail construction. Construction of the pass went extremely smoothly. The route was prepared, cut and filled well in advance of rail being laid. Permanent way materials were transported on a construction locomotive. Empty trucks, returning to Worcester, were used by locals as a convenient means to transport produce from the more remote mountain farms into town.

Despite its quick and cheap construction the pass served for over 100 years. It was the starting point of the country's first railway line to the Rand and opened the way for Rhodes' colonization thrust into central Southern Africa.


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Tooronga (G 9)

Name:Tooronga

Origins of Cleveland
There's some dispute as to how the suburb got its name, and at times in its early days, it was even referred to as "Tooronga". Anna Smith in her Johannesburg Street Names gives several possibilities.
It could have been named after American president Stephen Grover Cleveland, in office from 1885 to 1889 (and again from 1893 to 1897). An American engineer, Harry Cleveland Perkins, could possibly have given his middle name to the suburb.

Mine manager WT Hallimond could have offered the name based on Cleveland College in Darlington, England, where he was educated. He was mine manager from 1888 until around 1911. The nearby Yorkshire Cleveland Hills is another possibility.

But the most likely possibility is that an Australian, Florence Richards, who owned the land and in 1907 applied for permission to lay out the township of Cleveland, named the suburb after a street in her home town of Melbourne. It seems that at first the names Cleveland and Tooronga (also a street in Melbourne) were used interchangeably. Tooronga was dropped at some stage, and given to one of the streets in the suburb. Several of the other street names have an Australian connection - Myrnong, another street in Melbourne, and Dandenong, a town in Victoria.


Joburg's first police station
Johannesburg's first police station was in Kort Street, between Market and Commissioner Streets, according to Anna Smith in Johannesburg Firsts. This site was used in the 1890s to build the Gaiety Theatre which was demolished in 1972.
The barracks for the officers were at the bottom of Market Square, while the barracks for the mounted police were in Kazerne in Bree Street, west of the CBD.

Soon after this a police station was built in 1887 in Bree Street, on the corner of Simmonds Street. A police station still stands on this site, but it is believed to be a slightly later building, now used as a photo shop. The present building is old although no date is available for its construction. It retains its thick walls and tall ceilings, and its façade is striking in red and white.

http://www.joburgnews.co.za/2003/feb/feb4_police.stm

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Tongaat (M 12)

Name: Tongaat

Tongaat is a sugarcane growing town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that is situated on the banks of the Tongati River about 37 km north of Durban and 28 km south of Stanger. It now forms part of eThekwini, the Greater Durban metropolitan area. Its population is predominantly people of Indian descent. Aesthetically English colonial but distinctly cosmopolitan in flavour, Tongaat, part of the Sugar Coast, now supports one of the largest sugar-producing districts in the world.

History
Tongaat was established in 1945 and its name was corrupted from the river's name, Tongati, the Zulu word for the Strychnos mackenii trees that flourish on its banks.

Commerce
The town is the centre for the Tongaat Hulett Sugar and the Moreland Molasses Companies. Maidstone Sugar Mill, one of the country's first mills, completed in 1850. Some original sugar-crushing methods are still employed.


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Toise (G 14)

Name: Toise

The Lutheran Church Society
Links have been established with the Lutheran Church Society locally as well as with its German counterpart which has already resulted in correspondence from Reverend Hirst Wagner in Germany. Reverend Wagner resided in South Africa between 1955 and 1976 during which time he acquired several heritage artefacts which he later sold and donated to the British Museum. The heritage artefacts back as far as 1850. The Society has forwarded a list to the Council of the ECPHRA listing a number of their buildings which have not yet been declared heritage structures, including:
• Lutheran Church Wartburg Mission at Toise River, founded in 1843
• Lutheran Church Liefeldt founded in 1856
• Lutheran Church Anders Mission at Mdizeni established in 1864
• Lutheran Church Kwa-Shushu, near Tamara Village, established in 1868
The Reverend Liefeldt of the Liefeldt church listed above was drowned tragically with his three daughters whilst crossing the Braunschweig and the first service ever held in the church he founded was their funeral service in Tshox (Mxaxo Location) and the place was renamed in his honour to Liefeldt Village. The incumbent Chairperson of the Council of the ECPHRA, Mr Monde Mkunqwana was in fact schooled in this very same church.

Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Authority http://www.ecphra.org.za/

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Tica

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Tica to Timbe ... Tica, Provincia de Sofala, -20.3888889, 33.8119444,


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