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Viljoensdrif
Sign in to saveViljoensdrif is a coal-mining village 8 km south of Vereeniging and part of the Fezile Dabi District Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in ZA, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Mining communities in South Africa and Populated places in the Metsimaholo Local Municipality.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- South Africa
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- Metsimaholo Local Municipality
- Dialing code
- 016
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Viljoensdrif is a coal-mining village 8 km south of Vereeniging and part of the Fezile Dabi District Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa.
It takes its name from ford (Afrikaans drif) which was closed to ox-wagons by President Paul Kruger in 1895 to prevent goods reaching the Witwatersrand, thus forcing people to use the Netherlands-South African Railway Company (NZASM)'s Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railroad. Named after the owner of the place, J H Viljoen, who established a ferry in 1857.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viljoensdrif” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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