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WAKKERSTROOM

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 250 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAKKERSTROOM , a See also:

town and See also:district of the See also:Transvaal. The district occupies See also:part of the S.E. of the Transvaal, being bounded S. by the See also:Orange See also:Free See also:State and See also:Natal. The frontier See also:line is in part the See also:crest of the See also:Drakensberg. The town of Wakkerstroom, pop. (1904) 1402, lies 18 m. E. of See also:Volksrust and 4 M. N. of the Natal frontier. It is built on the high veld, at an See also:elevation of 5900 ft., and possesses a bracing See also:climate. The neighbouring hills rise over 7000 ft. The See also:plain on which the town stands is drained by the See also:Slang and other tributaries of the See also:Buffalo affluent of the See also:Tugela. The district, a fertile agricultural region, was organized as one of the divisions of the Transvaal in 1859 by See also:President M. W: See also:Pretorius, and after his See also:Christian names the town was called Marthinus-See also:Wessel-Stroom, an unwieldy designation dropped in favour of Wakkerstroom.

During the See also:

war of 188o-81 the town was unsuccessfully besieged by the Boers. In 1903 a small portion of the district was annexed to Natal.

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