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Agriculture in the lowveld was the main generator of economic development and stability.
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In the absence of rain, communities in the lowveld, which is the driest part of the country's four geographic regions, frequently go for days without water for drinking.
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In the absence of rain, communities in the lowveld, which is the driest part of the country's four geographic regions, frequently go for days without water for drinking.
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In the absence of rain, communities in the lowveld, which is the driest part of the country's four geographic regions, frequently go for days without water for drinking.
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According to Caissene, his Mundlovu ancestors fled from their original home near Natal to a site he called "Kenhoek," in the Transvaal lowveld, because of the Gaza Nguni succession war in the early 1860s.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Unlike other Tsonga-speaking communities in the region, the Hlanganu were never conquered or directly governed by the Gaza Nguni, although they seem to have been among the principal victims of the Gaza succession war in the lowveld.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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The Mpumalanga health department had since asked large companies, factories and shopping malls in the lowveld area to disinfect their airconditioning systems.
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Note 61: According to written sources from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Hlanganu lived in the Transvaal lowveld near present-day Leydenburg and in the Lebombo hills between the Sabié and Olifants Rivers (i.e., straddling the present border).
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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In the one study I am aware of that focuses on sites close to Magude and addresses Iron Age developments in a lowveld region straddling the international border, the significance attached to pottery demonstrates both how archaeological mappings have tacitly marginalized this area from history and how gender ideologies have buttressed this representation.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Note 41: The area of the northern Transvaal between the Klein Letaba and Olifants Rivers, east of the escarpment that divides the highveld from the lowveld.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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