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to rewrite South Africa's history continues to deliver new insights into the extent and complexity of these settlements. An international group of researchers have placed the baKoni settlements in the context of numerous other cases of agricultural intensification, that took place in the precolonial
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A quick-thinking station master rescued a consignment of dying trout by dumping the fish in the Elands River, which formed the start of the town's subsequent role in
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Nkomati mine about an hour's drive out of town also reside in
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Machadodorp, on the lands of the farm Rietvlei lies the former Bokoni capital
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