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Kuruman Accommodation: Nearby towns with accommodation:
Grootdrink Accommodation | Kakamas Accommodation | Postmasburg Accommodation
Kimberley Accommodation | Augrabies Falls Accommodation | Upington Accommodation
Kuruman is a town in Northern Cape province of South Africa, famous for its scenic beauty and the Oog (Eye), a geological feature bringing water from deep underground to the surface in the Kalahari Desert.
The Kuruman River (which is dry except for flash floods after heavy rain, is named after it.
Kuruman was a London Missionary Society mission station founded by Robert Moffat in 1821 and the place where David Livingstone arrived for his first position as a missionary in 1841.
The Kalahari Meerkat Project, made famous by the television series Meerkat Manor, is located nearby.
Kuruman is located along the border that bounds the northern Cape from the North West Province and is a local town for most communities surrounding the town, including those that live in the North West Province.
Kuruman has relatively mild weather patterns compared to other Northern Cape towns, such as Upington and Springbok, and is surrounded by more vegetation as compared to the Upington and Springbok, which are surrounded by desertic environments.
The local people in Kuruman mainly speak Tswana and Afrikaans.
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