Vaalbank is a small town some 95 kilometers northeast of Pretoria. The town is an important one in Mpumalanga's northwestern end where the majority of the surrounding population is rural and does not have infrastructure. It overlooks the Renosterkop Dam which is of agricultural importance in the region. A kilometer (Commonwealth spelling: kilometre), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1,000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Ordinal directions are the four compass directions: northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest, located halfway between the cardinal directions. ... City motto: Praestantia Praevaleat Pretoria (May Pretoria Be Pre-eminent In Excellence) Province Gauteng Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... Mpumalanga, (name changed from Eastern Transvaal on 24 August 1995), is a province in South Africa. ...

It is situated in the Dr JS Moroka Municipality of the Nkangala District. A map of South Africa showing Nkangala (within Mpumalanga province) Nkangala is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. ...

The People

The town has significant populations of Ndebele, Pedi, Tsonga and Tswana peoples. Whereas a minority of Zulu, Venda and Indian (primarily merchants) peoples are also found. The Ndebele people are three tribes or nations of people living in South Africa and Zimbabwe; there are three main groups of Ndebele: The Southern Transvaal Ndebele, who live around Bronkhorstspruit The Northern Transvaal Ndebele, who live in Limpopo Province (formerly Northern Transvaal or Northern Province) around the towns of... This article needs cleanup. ... The Shangaan (Vatsonga) are a large group of people living mainly in southern Mozambique in the provinces of Gaza and Maputo. ... Tswana (Motswana, plural Batswana) is the name of a Southern African people. ... The Zulu (South African English and isiZulu: amaZulu) are an African ethnic group of about 11 million people who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ... Venda, also known as Tshivenda, or Luvenda, is a Bantu language. ... Merchants function as professional traders, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves. ...

Origin of Name

The name is of Afrikaans origin and means 'grey bank(s)', most probably referring to the banks of the Renosterkop Dam. Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Scrivener Dam, in Canberra, Australia, was engineered to withstand a once-in-5000-years flood A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs or retards the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment. ...

The Ndebele population has a word for the town: Libangeni, although this word is never used in speech.