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Wittewater () is a town in Bergrivier Local Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa, located off the R399 road, between Piketberg and Velddrif. It was established in the 1857 by German Moravian missionaries.

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Wittewater () is a town in Bergrivier Local Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa, located off the R399 road, between Piketberg and Velddrif. It was established in the 1857 by German Moravian missionaries.

The town name, 'white water', references the waterfall that emerges behind it during winter rain.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wittewater” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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