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Limpopo

River in southeast Africa, rising in the Magaliesberg to the west of Pretoria in Gauteng Province, South Africa, and flowing through Mozambique and into the Mozambique Channel at Delagoa Bay; length 1,600 km/1,000 mi. It is also known as Crocodile River.

The Limpopo flows in a semicircular course, forming the boundary between Northern Province, South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. It is navigable only for some 210 km/130 mi, below its confluence with the Olifants River, its main tributary, but its mouth is obstructed by sandbars.



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In 1981, the virus was isolated from what is believed to have been a Miniopterus schreibersi insectivorous bat caught in daylight by a cat in Makhado town (formerly Louis Trichardt) in Limpopo Province, South Africa, and in 1986 the virus was recovered from an insectivorous bat, Nycteris the baica, trapped in a survey in Zimbabwe (7,8).
Anglo Platinum's refined output of metal for the first half of the year benefited from improved production levels and the processing of the build-up in its stores of untreated concentrates following the closure of its Polokwane smelter in the Limpopo province of South Africa during the fourth quarter of 2005, which resulted from a steam explosion at the plant.
On 2 December last year, Mphahlele was formally welcomed hack into his village in Limpopo Province.
 
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