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Laersdrif
Sign in to saveLaersdrift (formerly Delagersdrift) is a small settlement in Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is situated on the Laersdrifspruit, a tributary of the upper Steelpoort River, 27 km southwest of Roossenekal, 72 km northeast of Middelburg and 11 km north east of Stoffberg.
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- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality
- Elevation
- 1474
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- NG-klipkerk te Laersdrif, Limpopo, a.jpg
- Dialing code
- 013
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- postal code
- 1065
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Laersdrift (formerly Delagersdrift) is a small settlement in Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is situated on the Laersdrifspruit, a tributary of the upper Steelpoort River, 27 km southwest of Roossenekal, 72 km northeast of Middelburg and 11 km north east of Stoffberg.
==History== It was founded in 1907 on the farms Swartkoppies and De Lagersdrift, and proclaimed a township on 8 July 1953. It takes its name from the latter farm, which in turn was named after a ford (Afrikaans: drif, Dutch: drift) at which a Boer commando laagered during the Mapoch War of 1882; a laager is laer in Afrikaans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laersdrif” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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