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What is the largest dam in South Africa and where is it located

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  1. According to the South African Water Research Commission and the Department of Water and Forestry, the Gariep Dam (formerly Hendrik Verwoerd Dam) in the Free State is the largest dam by volume.  It can hold 5,500 million cubic metres of water.


  2. Hi Firdous!

    It's the Verwoerd Dam (now the Gariep Dam) across the Orange River.

    The Orange River is the border between the Free State and Eastern Cape provinces.  It flows west from the Drakensberg mountains to the Atlantic, reaching the sea at the border between South Africa and Namibia.  

    When built, it was named the Verwoerd Dam, after Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd.  Since 1994, the government decided to rename it Gariep Dam, after the Bushman word for the waterway known as the Orange River.

    I've actually been there, and the name carved into the stone is "Verwoerd Dam."  It seems the builders etched the name too deeply into the stone for the name-changers to easily expunge it.

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