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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A semiarid plateau region of southwest South Africa. It is divided into the North Karroo, along the Orange River; the Great (or Central) Karroo; and the Little Karroo, near the coast.
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CA: RLR 11: 156, Elandsdrift, in het Karroo, 31 Apr. 1747 to 24 Apr. 1748.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Sedimentation of dams is a problem, especially in the dams that impound parts of the Central Plateau that are covered by the very old rock of the Karoo (Karroo) System and its sediments.
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Flowing from the Presidential imbizo in the Western Cape sometime last year, I started working in the constituency of George and the surrounding municipalities in the southern Cape/Klein Karroo on a project to enhance the skills level and hence the employability of matriculated youth from those areas.
SPEECH BY BRUCE KANNEMEYER DURING THE DEBATE ON THE APPROPRIATIONS BILL 2004
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Cabinet has given the go-ahead for construction of a R100 million telescope at Sutherland in the Karroo, a project which Arts and Science Misnister Lionel Mtshali says will put South Africa at the cutting edge of international astronomy.
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He was a younger version of the father, already beginning to spread around the waist, and with an open bucolic face, more like a Karroo sheep farmer than a commercial pilot.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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Namaqualand and the northern sections of the Karroo.
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The more northerly parts of the Karroo, and Upington, were debatable territory which might go to Kimberley.
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Pretoria, if indeed that was where we were being taken, passed through the Karroo, the dry central plain of South Africa, which becomes bitterly cold at night.
Chapter 5 - Trial 1987
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Look, you, I've hunted bushmen in the Karroo and the Kalahari, I've fought Xhosas and Fingoes along the Fish river, I went into the mountains after Moshesh and his Basutos.
When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964
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Sandstones of Karroo age occur in the basin of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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