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Piet Retief, South Africa, the Glossary

Piet Retief, officially eMkhondo, is a town situated in a timber-growing region in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.^[1]

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Populated places in the Mkhondo Local Municipality

Acacia

Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.

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Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Apartheid

Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.

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Bantu peoples of South Africa

South African Bantu-speaking peoples represent the majority ethno-racial group of South Africans.

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Centurion, South Africa

Centurion (previously known as Verwoerdburg and before that Lyttelton) is an area with 236,580 inhabitants (2011 census) in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, between Pretoria and Midrand.

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Coloureds

Coloureds (Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people.

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Country

A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.

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Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu (–29 January 1840), commonly referred to as Dingane or Dingaan, was a Zulu prince who became king of the Zulu Kingdom in 1828, after assassinating his half-brother Shaka Zulu.

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Districts of South Africa

The nine provinces of South Africa are divided into 52 districts (sing. district, isifunda; isithili; distrikte; selete; kgaolo; setereke; xifundza; sigodzi; tshiṱiriki; isiyingi), which are either metropolitan or district municipalities.

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Dumisani Msibi

Dumisani Msibi (born 1 May 1995) is a South African footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Maritzburg United and has represented South Africa.

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Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church (abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930.

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Eswatini

Eswatini (eSwatini), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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First language

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Freedom Front Plus

The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus; Vryheidsfront Plus, VF Plus) is a right-wing political party in South Africa that was formed (as the Freedom Front) in 1994.

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Gerard Moerdijk

Gerard Leendert Pieter Moerdijk (Zwaershoek farm near Nylstroom, Transvaal, 4 March 1890 – Nylstroom, 29 March 1958), also known as Gerard Moerdyk, was a South African architect best known for designing the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria.

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Gert Sibande District Municipality

Gert Sibande (until 2004 known as the Eastvaal District Municipality) is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa.

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Great Trek

The Great Trek (Die Groot Trek; De Grote Trek) was a northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration.

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Heino Kuhn

Heino Gunther Kuhn (born 1 April 1984) is a South African cricketer who has played for the national team.

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Indian South Africans

Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Jack Diamond (architect)

Abel Joseph "Jack" Diamond, (November 8, 1932 – October 30, 2022) was a South African-born Canadian architect.

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K.O (rapper)

Ntokozo Mdluli (born 13 October 1980), known professionally as K.O, is a South African rapper.

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Kaolinite

Kaolinite (also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition: Al2Si2O5(OH)4.

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Klein Vrystaat

Klein Vrystaat (Afrikaans for "Little Free State") was a short-lived Boer republic in what is now South Africa (around the town of Piet Retief).

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List of municipalities in South Africa

This is a list of municipalities of South Africa.

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Lulama Xingwana

Lulama "Lulu" Marytheresa Xingwana (born 23 September 1955) is a South African politician who served as Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities from November 2010 to May 2014.

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Lumber

Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.

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Mica

Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

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Miss South Africa 2016

Miss South Africa 2016 was the 58th edition of the Miss South Africa pageant, held at the Carnival City's Big Top Arena in Gauteng, on March 19, 2016.

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Mkhondo Local Municipality

Mkhondo Municipality (UMasipala wase Mkhondo) is a local municipality within the Gert Sibande District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.

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Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.

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Paper

Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying.

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Piet Retief

Pieter Mauritz Retief (12 November 1780 – 6 February 1838) was a Voortrekker leader.

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Post office box

A post office box (commonly abbreviated as P.O. box, or also known as a postal box) is a uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office.

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Postal codes in South Africa

Postal codes were introduced in South Africa on 8 October 1973, with the introduction of automated sorting.

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Pretty Yende

Pretty Yende (born 6 March 1985) is a South African operatic coloratura soprano.

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Provinces of South Africa

South Africa is divided into nine provinces.

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Sandra Laing

Sandra Laing (born 26 November 1955) is a South African woman who was classified as Coloured by authorities during the apartheid era, due to her skin colour and hair texture, although she was officially listed as the child of at least three generations of ancestors who had been regarded as white.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South Africa national cricket team

The South Africa men's national cricket team, also known as the Proteas, RSA, represents South Africa in men's international cricket and is administered by Cricket South Africa (CSA).

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South African English

South African English (SAfE, SAfEn, SAE, en-ZA) is the set of English language dialects native to South Africans.

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South African Republic

The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, abbreviated ZAR; Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it was annexed into the British Empire as a result of the Second Boer War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Retief,_South_Africa

Also known as EMkhondo, Ethandakukhanya, Mkhondo, Piet Retief (town), Piet Retief, Mpumalanga.

Piet Retief, South Africa, the Glossary

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Populated places in the Mkhondo Local Municipality

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