7
Jun

8 Reduced Vaal River properties

by Christian in Investment opportunities

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Check out the following properties recently reduced in price. They include Houses, Clusters and Vacant residential land priced between R0 and R3,750,000 in the Vaal River and Vaal Dam area. Don’t miss out on this opportunity, who knows how much longer they will available.

23
May

Latest Vaal River property listings – May 2013

by Christian in New listings

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Your dream weekend home may have just come onto the market! Our latest listings include Vacant residential land, Clusters and Houses priced between R1,090,000 and R6,800,000 in the Vaal River area.

20
May

The first ever attempt to create a world record on the Vaal River

by Christian in Events

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THE LONGEST WASHING LINE ACROSS A RIVER! Rotary Club Vanderbijlpark, with the kind support of Unilever South Africa Limited, plan to construct a 5 kilometer washing line across the Vaal River at Stonehaven on Vaal, scheduled for the first week in October 2013. The line will be populated with some 13 000 school shirts; afterwards to ...

10
May

A bottle in the river and a wise old statesman; the story of 200 islands in the Vaal River

by Annalien in Vaal river info

Parys Islands

We all know that up to the barrage wall in the Vaal River, this old man river runs mysteriously deep and dark. But it is after the barrage that the river is freed into its natural state again and it then runs wide and mostly shallow on its course to the Atlantic sea. From Lindeque's Drift it ...

3
May

These yellow beacons on your Vaal river property, what do they indicate?

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It is a popular myth on the Vaal river that the yellow Rand Water beacons on a river property indicate where the flood line is. These yellow poles specifically do NOT indicate the flood line. They actually indicate the beginning of Rand Water's property! The history behind these yellow beacons is that in 1923 Rand Water ...

26
Apr

Engineering a world record attempt on the Vaal River

by Annalien in Events

Engineers from various engineering companies

Engineers from various engineering companies came together to plan the technicalities of our world record attempt on the Vaal River in October this year. Companies represented are: All In One Engineering, Kentz Engineering, Delta Crane and Plant, Gauteng Rigging Services, Trinamics Structures, CJ (crane) Rentals, GRS Rigging, Sasol, Vaal University of Technology, Safripol. If you want more ...

23
Apr

Vaal River properties listed during April 2013

by Christian in New listings

New listingsNew listings

Check out the latest properties to come onto the market. Our latest listings include Houses, Farms and Clusters priced between R2,400,000 and R9,900,000 in the Vaal River and Parys area.

22
Apr

2 Vaal River properties recently reduced

by Christian in Investment opportunities

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Check out the following properties recently reduced in price. Vaal River Vacant residential land for sale from R460,000 to R575,000

12
Apr

South African property growth 11th on global market list!

by Annalien in Property market

Property market trends

Last year house markets grew world wide with 4.3%. South African properties grew at a rate of 7.4%. This is even better than the American growth of 7.3%. Hong Kong is 1st on the list of 55 with 23.6% growth, followed by Dubai (19%) and Brasil 3rd at 13.7%. Spare a thought for poor Greece and ...

5
Apr

What is the Barrage in the Vaal River?

by Annalien in FAQs, Vaal river info

Vaal River Barrage

The Barrage is a series of steel gates installed between concrete piers right across the Vaal River, about 35 km downstream from Vanderbijlpark, in Gauteng. There are 35 concrete piers supporting 36 steel gates (sluices) – each ten metres by eight metres – built in Scotland and installed by Rand Water in 1923. The reservoir ...

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