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Tugela

/ ٳːˈɡɪə /

noun

  1. a river in E South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg where it forms the Tugela Falls , 856 m (2810 ft) high (highest waterfall in Africa), before flowing east to the Indian Ocean: scene of battles during the Zulu War (1879) and the Boer War (1899–1902). Length: about 500 km (312 miles)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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This outbreak in Tugela Ferry, KwaZulu-Natal province, was the largest ever reported for XDR TB—and the primary strain involved currently accounts for nearly 80 percent of such infections in the province.

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At the Tugela reserve, 230 miles south of Johannesburg in the district of Uthukela, the old landowners stayed on for a time to run the operation.

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Undeterred, he heads off to the Sani Pass, a steep mountain road covered in ice, and the Tugela Falls, which can be reached only by climbing up rickety iron ladders.

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They are not often to be seen in the Mooi; but I suppose they have come down from the Tugela.

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I went with two others over the range, and they pointed out to me the tents of the English garrison, on the left bank of the Tugela, near the village of Colenso.

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