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Roossenekal
Sign in to saveRoossenekal is a town in Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
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- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality
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- SJRoos.JPG
- Dialing code
- 013
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- Roossenekal
- postal code
- 1066
- inception
- 1886-01-01
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Roossenekal is a town in Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
Village on the western slopes of the Steenkampsberg, 95 km north-east of Middelburg. It was proclaimed in January 1886 and named after two soldiers who died in the war against Mapoch's tribe - Stefanus Johannes Roos, Field-Cornet of the Potchefstroom commando, and Frederick Senekal, Commandant of the Rustenburg commando.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roossenekal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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