Kaapmuiden ''(Cape Mouth)'' is a small farming town situated at the confluence of the Kaap and Crocodile Rivers in

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. The town lies just off the N4 national highway and is marked by a large abandoned silo visible from the road. The silo has since been repainted to add to tourism appeal. The farms in the region produce

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and

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s. The town began as a junction on the Netherlands-South African Railway Company (NZASM)'s

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- Delagoa Bay

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line. Recently the town underwent some development due to the

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pipeline and construction and upgrading of the national highway. The Nkomazi Tollgate has subsequently been built on the N4 national route ( Maputo Corridor) on the eastern outskirts of the town.

Selati Railway

In June 1890, Eugene, the younger of the Barons Oppenheim, sought to obtain a concession from the Government of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek to construct a railway line to the Murchison Range goldfields along the Ga-Selati River. Work on the construction of the Selati Railway in the Transvaal Lowveld began early in 1893, with the line branching off from the

- Delagoa Bay mainline at a junction near

Komatipoort Komatipoort is a town situated at the confluence of the Crocodile and Komati Rivers in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is 8 km from the Crocodile Bridge Gate into the Kruger Park, and just 5 km from the Mozambique border a ...

.Artefacts - Selati Line, Skukuza District, Mpumalanga
(Accessed 25 February 2016) The line was extended via Gravelotte and

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to a junction at Soekmekaar, where it met the line from

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in 1912. In 1963, the part of the line through the southern part of the

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, from the junction near Komatipoort, was abandoned and replaced by a new line from the present junction near Kaapmuiden.''Reader's Digest Atlas of Southern Africa'', The Reader's Digest Association South Africa (Pty.) Limited, 1984, (Editor Christoper Walton), p182,

References

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