Telle Bridge, also spelled as Tele Bridge, is a border post located between

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 count ...

and

Lesotho Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked as an enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the highest mountains in Southern Africa. It has an area of over and has a populatio ...

. The actual steel motorbridge spans the Telle River, a tributary of the

Orange River The Orange River (from Afrikaans/ Dutch: ''Oranjerivier'') is a river in Southern Africa. It is the longest river in South Africa. With a total length of , the Orange River Basin extends from Lesotho into South Africa and Namibia to the nort ...

that flows across half of South Africa. The anti-apartheid South African journalist and editor of the '' Daily Dispatch'', Donald Woods entered Lesotho through the Telle Bridge as he was fleeing from South Africa on New Year's Eve, 1977. PekaBridge BorderPost SouthAfrica

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Sterkspruit Sterkspruit is a town in the Senqu Local Municipality in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town is located about 45 km south-east of Zastron, 80 km north-east of Aliwal North Al ...

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, , +27 (0)51 611 1710 , , , - , Fax number, , +27 (0)51 633 1099 , , , - , Postal address, , , , , - , Business hours Travellers, , 06:00 – 22:00, , 06:00 – 22:00 , - , Business hours General, , 07:30 – 16:15, , Webpage – South African Ports of Entry
Department of Home Affairs of South Africa

References

Lesotho–South Africa border crossings