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Grootvlei, officially Thaba-Kgwali, is a town in
Dipaleseng Local Municipality Dipaleseng Local Municipality is a South African local municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Balfour is the seat of the municipality. Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the follo ...
in the
Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
province of
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
. An old mining town, Grootvlei is located near the N3 road and on the R51 road, 5 km from
Grootvlei Power Station Grootvlei Power Station in Grootvlei, Mpumalanga, South Africa. History The first of Grootvlei's six units was commissioned in 1969. In 1989 three units were mothballed and in 1990 the other three followed. Due to the power crisis being experien ...
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The community had a booming economy in the 1970s and 1980s, when demand for coal from the power station created many jobs in the mining sector, but when the power plant was mothballed in the late 1980s due to overproduction of electricity, the local economy collapsed and Grootvlei became a virtual ghost town. The power plant was recommissioned in 2008, leading to a new period of growth.


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Populated places in the Dipaleseng Local Municipality {{Mpumalanga-geo-stub