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Place in Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Barberton is a city of 12,000 people (2011) in Mpumalanga. It sits in the De Kaap Valley and is fringed by the Makhonjwa Mountains. It has its origin in the 1880s gold rush in the region.
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This 20-km long cableway was built in the 1930s by the mining industry to carry ore between Havelock mine in Swaziland and Barberton. However in early 2011, thieves looking to steal metal from the cableway base resulted in the entire 20-km system collapsing. As a result there will soon be not much left of this artifact.
Anglo-Boer War fort dating back to 1901.
This reserve is in the Barberton Mountain lands and is the Mpumalanga Parks Board's largest reserve, extending over 500 km². The park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018 as the landscape represents one of the best-preserved successions of volcanic and sedimentary rock, dating back 3.6 to 3.25 billion years. The park is also home to some of the world's oldest rock art.
This 270-km² reserve protects an area of great landscape beauty and very high species diversity. The Noord Kaap River runs through the middle of the reserve in a wide valley with a steep escarpment on the northern side and lower hills
By plane
The nearest large airport, Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport just outside Mbombela, is about an hours away by car.
By bus
A number of inter city bus services stop in Barberton
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