Moruleng
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Saulspoort (also known as Moruleng) is a village in South Africa, at the northern foot of the Pilanesberg, about 65 km north of Rustenburg. It was named after a former baKgatla chief, Tsheole, called Saul by the early settlers.
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- Languages spoken
- Zulu
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- North West
- Population
- 11220
- Area
- 14.76
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
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- postal code
- 0318
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Saulspoort (also known as Moruleng) is a village in South Africa, at the northern foot of the Pilanesberg, about 65 km north of Rustenburg. It was named after a former baKgatla chief, Tsheole, called Saul by the early settlers.
It was established when Henri Gonin, a Swiss missionary with the Dutch Reformed Church preaching to the baKgatla tribe, moved to Saulspoort farm, which was owned by the later president Paul Kruger; Kruger eventually sold the farm to Gonin in 1869. In 1895 the baKgatla purchased most of Saulspoort from Gonin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moruleng” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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