Modderspruit

The Modderspruit Water Supply Scheme will supply about 11000 people with drinking water.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Modderspruit near Brits in the North West province to join the impoverished rural community in celebrating the delivery of drinking water to the millionth person since President Nelson

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Ms Gertrude Mngomezulu, 26, and her nine-month-old baby were killed when caught in a veld fire near Bethal; Mr Daniel Nkosi, 22, died of burns in Bethal Hospital; an unidentified man and woman were burnt to death near Modderspruit; and a tractor driver burnt to death near Piet Retief.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

The force moved steadily on towards Modderspruit, one battalion in front of the guns.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

But during the morning, heavy firing broke out at Elandslaagte, and, as the enemy seemed aggressive, the troops at Modderspruit were directed to be ready to move to Elandslaagte.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

The head of the column had come within three miles or so of Modderspruit station.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

Elandslaagte, and the brigade marched back to Modderspruit.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

Then Modderspruit, seven miles north of Ladysmith, and sixty-five from Dundee, was reached, and the men sank down, too weary to care about anything.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

The 5th Brigade moved on the 23rd to Modderspruit, and thence on the next day to Elandslaagte, where it encamped a short distance to the west of the battlefield.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

We had already seen many such bullets taken from the enemy by our burghers in the Battle of Modderspruit.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919