Limpopo Cities and Towns *Gallery*

Polokwane


Soccerball by Life Around The Game, on Flickr


Polokwane Indian Restaurant by sonebalone, on Flickr


Kiwi fan by NZ All Whites in Bahrain & South Africa, on Flickr


CIMG0918 by DerFuzzi, on Flickr


CIMG0878 by DerFuzzi, on Flickr







Mall of the North FB

Beautiful Tzaneen!


Tzaneen by Fihliwe, on Flickr

So beautiful.. I love tea fields!


Streets of Tzaneen by danlmarmot, on Flickr


Clouds at Tzaneen by Piet Grobler, on Flickr


Early leader by Roelie707, on Flickr


Sapekoe Tea Estate & Letaba Valley by Fihliwe, on Flickr


Sapekoe Tea Estate & Letaba Valley by Fihliwe, on Flickr


Tzaneen Catholic Cathedral by catholicportal, on Flickr


South Africa Tzaneen Green Clicks by Gary Mark Smith * Global Streetphoto Man, on Flickr

Louis Trichardt



WikiCommons


Louis Trichardt petrol station by Peter Howells, on Flickr


2008-04 Sig op Louis Trichardt vanaf Mountain View by AndreBakkerAlbum, on Flickr





-Panoramio

Thabazimbi love the name.. also a lovely looking town









http://thabazimbivliegveld.blogspot.com/

Bela-Bela











Source: Panoramio

^^indeed, ke moPedi wa makgonthe.... - (yes I'm Pedi through and through),..:cheers:.

@MC
Limpopo is underrated cos its undeveloped (nearly the same population as the W.Cape) but less than half of its GDP and its also a mirror image of the WC, as the most African of the provinces, with the highest proportion of black Africans re: population. Its growing rel rapidly (since democracy its consistently grown faster than the national economy, no doubt due to base effects) due to mining, agriculture, trade and tourism (game farms for days), naturally its economy should be the largest in the northern provinces after Gauteng due to its big population. The process is already having political ramifications nationally, as witnessed by the rise of a cohort of politicians from Limpopo or those that are Pedi, including Malema, Mothlanthe, Sexwale, Phosa (??). So all in all it's on the come-up....

I loved the scenery of this province when I drove through a few months ago. What ruined my trip though, was the upgrading and repair work being carried out on almost every single road. Although I was impressed by the fact that work was actually being done (practically everywhere) it was highly annoying!

Coming from the Western Cape, the spread of towns was strange for me. Well, it's more like the spread of shacks over kilometers of rolling hills...I can imagine this makes provision of services very difficult - how do you provide for the sheer number of people who are spread so far and wide?

But there are such nice places to see around the province, like the biggest boabab, etc. Thanks for the pics!

RYebreAD said:

I loved the scenery of this province when I drove through a few months ago. What ruined my trip though, was the upgrading and repair work being carried out on almost every single road. Although I was impressed by the fact that work was actually being done (practically everywhere) it was highly annoying!

Coming from the Western Cape, the spread of towns was strange for me. Well, it's more like the spread of shacks over kilometers of rolling hills...I can imagine this makes provision of services very difficult - how do you provide for the sheer number of people who are spread so far and wide?

But there are such nice places to see around the province, like the biggest boabab, etc. Thanks for the pics!

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Indeed the rural settlements are vast , the one I'm originally from is an example of pure rural sprawl, with potentially 1 million people when you add all the surrounding villages. The development there is simply frantic and all manner of services are being provided, water pipelines, roads, lighting, fencing, etc... those shacks though are not permanent, they're used to demarcate plots until more permanent structures are built. Hence they're spaced so far apart

Nostra said:

Indeed the rural settlements are vast , the one I'm originally from is an example of pure rural sprawl, with potentially 1 million people when you add all the surrounding villages. The development there is simply frantic and all manner of services are being provided, water pipelines, roads, lighting, fencing, etc... those shacks though are not permanent, they're used to demarcate plots until more permanent structures are built. Hence they're spaced so far apart

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That really is hectic amount of people for a rural setting, but I can imagine that this is the case for most of the province - they shacks simply did not end.

I am really glad that there are signs that they are moving on service provision, it is impossible to miss. I would just be worried about the sprawl as it makes the task seem almost impossible. It's like the opposite of where things should be going in terms of being environmentally conscious and efficient. But hey, one step at a time right?