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Day: January 16, 2018

Juffrou’s Hoogte: The Rest Stop That Became a Name

16 January, 2018 Accommodation & Outdoor Stays

Before Vredenburg had its name, it had a fight over water. In the 1870s the settlement on the Cape Columbine Peninsula was called Twisfontein, "dispute fountain," because two farmers quarrelled over the only freshwater spring…

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