Modder

The word Modder means muddy, and this term was appreciated in its full significance when our parched troops came to make acquaintance with it.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

Its real name, however, is the Riet, of which the Modder is a tributary flowing from the north-west and joining the main stream well to the east of the line.

With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train Ernest N. Bennett

Gold One's main operation is its Modder East mine, about 30 kilometers about 18 miles from Johannesburg and the first new mine to built in the region in about 28 years.

Gold One Agrees to Takeover Offer from Chinese Consortium Robb M. Stewart 2011

CA: RLR 17: 120, Modder Fonteijn, over de Kleijn Riet Rivier, 13 Oct. 1762 to 29 Mar. 1769.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Note 16: CA: RLR 15: 5, de Modder Valleij, over de Olifants rivier to Andries Lubbe, 12 Jan. 1757 – 10 Feb. 1786 (per L. Guelke data). back

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

This landscape is near the Modder Valleij loan farm claimed by Andries Lubbe, 1751 – 1785.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Andries brought Flora van de Caab and Fortuyn van Sambowa up the river to Modder Valleij.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Johanna was widowed young and maintained the farm until she transferred it to her son Paul Willem in 1794.17 Their sister Martha and her husband Johannes Paulus Mouton joined them on the nearby Modder Rivier farm in 1765.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Andries, the eldest son, began farming at Modder Valleij, near present-day Citrusdal, the year after his marriage to Maria Magdalena Mouton. 16 The following year, Barend Fredrik and Johanna Maria Keyser established a home at Brakkefontein, also in Olifants River valley.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Modder Kotomi took an original Super Mario Brothers cartridge, gutted it and somehow squeezed in all the circuitry, chips, power switches, twin joystick ports and composite video and stereo audio sockets.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - NES Cartridge Modded into NES System. 2008