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Recently, Leeu-Gamka established a new emergency medical services station in conjunction with the
Western Cape Provincial Health Department to render support services to accident victims on the N1 en route to Cape Town and Johannesburg. Furthermore, a permanent community health center was erected,
437:. The railway line reached the meeting-point of the Leeu and Gamka rivers in 1879, and on 11 August of that year a station was opened on that location. It was initially named "Fraserburg Road", because it was the closest station to the town of
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supply. Leeu Gamka is mainly a community surrounded by farms and many of the citizens are dependent on work from these farms, with maintenance work by civil contracting engineering companies who subcontract for SANRAL.
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A small town grew around this station, with a church and school opening in 1896, and a hotel in 1898. In 1950 the station and town were renamed to "Leeu-Gamka".
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doing away with the previously used mobile clinic. The community also has a library and a new dam for domestic
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is 387 kilometres (240 mi) by road and 465 kilometres (289 mi) by rail. From Leeu-Gamka the
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590:. Northumberland Avenue, London. 1898. p.26. "The Railway System of South Africa".
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The town of Leeu-Gamka owes its existence to the route chosen by Prime
Minister
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reported that, of the population of 2,727, some 91% described themselves as "
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The town lies at an elevation of 552 m, in the southern
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Leeu-Gamka is located where the Leeu River enters the
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785:Central Karoo District Municipality
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533:Central Karoo District Municipality
27:Place in Western Cape, South Africa
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523:Government and Infrastructure
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705:"Leeu-Gamka Police Station"
519:" and 95% spoke Afrikaans.
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731:"Leeu-Gamka Mobile Clinic"
655:Early Railways at the Cape
635:. Cape Town Heritage Trust
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479:. It is situated on the
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78:Show map of Western Cape
569:Sum of the Main Places
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238:240/km (610/sq mi)
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602:Tracks Across the Veld
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653:Burman, Jose (1984).
137:32.77361°S 21.98028°E
675:"Leeu-Gamka Primary"
243:Racial makeup (2011)
235: • Density
142:-32.77361; 21.98028
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443:Nuweveld Mountains
345: • Other
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507:Demographics
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423:John Molteno
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403:South Africa
401:province of
399:Western Cape
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183:Municipality
167:Western Cape
157:South Africa
895:Murraysburg
857:Klaarstroom
571:Bitterwater
513:2011 Census
458:Gamka River
371:Postal code
193:Established
140: /
18:Bitterwater
915:Categories
890:Merweville
862:Leeu-Gamka
817:Laingsburg
809:Laingsburg
741:24 October
715:24 October
689:24 October
639:24 October
575:Leeu-Gamka
548:References
485:Laingsburg
477:Swartberge
439:Fraserburg
395:Leeu-Gamka
222:Population
128:21°58′49″E
125:32°46′25″S
102:Leeu-Gamka
72:Leeu-Gamka
34:Leeu-Gamka
900:Nelspoort
501:Williston
497:R353 road
493:Cape Town
462:Afrikaans
452:Geography
435:Kimberley
431:Cape Town
407:Cape Town
384:Area code
354:Time zone
314:Afrikaans
214:Elevation
517:Coloured
425:for the
373:(street)
261:Coloured
173:District
163:Province
417:History
409:in the
325:English
153:Country
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307:(2011)
272:Indian
541:water
473:Karoo
411:Karoo
359:UTC+2
336:Xhosa
318:94.9%
287:White
276:Asian
265:91.3%
230:2,727
743:2010
717:2010
691:2010
659:ISBN
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606:ISBN
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363:SAST
348:1.4%
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299:1.2%
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254:4.1%
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