Wakkerstroom
Sign in to saveWakkerstroom (Awake Stream) is the second oldest town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is on the KwaZulu-Natal border, 27 km east of Volksrust and 56 km south-east of Amersfoort.
Key facts
- Settlement.demographics2_title2
- English
- Settlement.demographics2_info2
- 4.2%
- Settlement.demographics2_title3
- Afrikaans
- Settlement.demographics2_info3
- 3.7%
- Settlement.demographics2_title4
- S. Ndebele
- Settlement.demographics2_info4
- 1.6%
- Settlement.demographics2_title5
- Other
- Settlement.demographics2_info5
- 4.2%
- Settlement.timezone1
- SAST
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +2
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code (street)
- Settlement.postal_code
- 2480
- Settlement.postal2_code_type
- PO box
- Settlement.postal2_code
- 2480
- Settlement.area_code_type
- Area code
- Settlement.area_code
- 017
- Settlement.name
- Wakkerstroom
- Settlement.native_name
- Mhlongamvula
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Pixley ka Seme Local Municipality
- Image
- Zulu women at work.jpg
- Dialing code
- 017
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- inception
- 1859-01-01
- postal code
- 2480
- Commons category
- Wakkerstroom
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- First Boer War
- Second Boer War
- Economy
- Environment
- See also
- Sources
- References
- External links
Wakkerstroom (Awake Stream) is the second oldest town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is on the KwaZulu-Natal border, 27 km east of Volksrust and 56 km south-east of Amersfoort.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wakkerstroom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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