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

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

During the

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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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