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The small hamlet of Chrissiesmeer
is the centre of South Africa's largest lake district with some 270 lakes and pans located within a 20 km
radius of the village. The largest, Lake Chrissie , was named after President M. W. Pretorius's talented daughter
Christina.
The region was an important staging point on the early wagon routes to Delagoa Bay and it was from here that the
first tsetse fly free route to the coast was mapped and surveyed. In the town of Chrissiesmeer today, Clarke's
Shop, which was once owned by such notables as Simmer and Jack of Germiston mining fame, is now over a hundered
years old. With the opening of the rail link between Delagoa Bay and Pretoria the growth of the area became limited
to farming and forestry for which it is now well known. A new drive to promote tourism will restore the area to
a rightful position of importance. The people of the grasslands will ensure that your stay is a memorable one and
that you will return to this beautiful corner of Mpumalanga.
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