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sandveld. Only certain hardy plant species thrive in the sandveld environment. These consist especially of grasses forming clumps and certain kinds of trees and shrubs. The sandveld vegetation has a particular pattern of growth, rarely covering the whole terrain and thus leaving patches of sandy soil exposed on the surface. Some of the typical sandveld species are
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828:Berger, Iris. South Africa in World History.
615:, in the Hardveld area of southeast Botswana
30:"Veldt" redirects here. For other uses, see
1035:"Thorn Veld Ecozone – Kruger National Park"
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817:Cambridge University Press
788:"Southern Africa bushveld"
600:A calf in the Sandveld in
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1281:Geography of South Africa
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963:Atlas of Southern Africa
951:Atlas of Southern Africa
887:Atlas of Southern Africa
611:Bakwena Royal Cemetery,
539:Trees and bushes: Genus
359:Much of the interior of
299:and its relation to the
192:Afrikaans pronunciation:
1200:Environment and History
981:Parasites & Vectors
898:Richard Despard Estes,
830:Oxford University Press
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712:Combretum apiculatum
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652:Lonchocarpus nelsii
628:Acacia haematoxylon
473:Mpumalanga Province
387:subtropical climate
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466:Drakensberg
454:Save rivers
434:rift valley
398:Drakensberg
371:Drakensberg
343:Kruger Park
309:Drakensberg
278:Definitions
1311:Ecoregions
1256:Grasslands
1240:Categories
1175:31 October
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774:References
678:Kamiesberg
613:Molepolole
551:, such as
503:among the
493:tsetse fly
485:Mozambique
469:escarpment
436:cuts into
395:Mpumalanga
383:grasslands
336:Mpumalanga
325:Free State
1003:1756-3305
767:Rangeland
522:Balanites
511:Thornveld
410:springbok
393:, or the
321:Excelsior
291:A map of
243:Old Dutch
201:Afrikaans
186:The word
182:Etymology
168:ecoregion
136:landscape
69:, Namibia
63:Springbok
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737:Highveld
732:Bushveld
725:See also
671:Hardveld
620:Sandveld
602:Botswana
477:Eswatini
471:through
430:Zimbabwe
426:Botswana
375:Bushveld
366:Highveld
355:Highveld
349:Highveld
301:Highveld
172:Bushveld
164:Botswana
160:Zimbabwe
156:Eswatini
43:Typical
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757:Pasture
752:Outback
747:Lowveld
689:savanna
680:of the
531:Themeda
499:called
462:Limpopo
450:Limpopo
446:Lowveld
420:Lowveld
402:blesbok
339:lowveld
305:Lesotho
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505:Zulus
227:field
211:veldt
208:Dutch
144:scrub
132:veldt
47:near
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1151:2012
1127:2012
1105:2012
1073:2012
1047:2012
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545:and
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