Kleinfontein
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Kleinfontein is a new settlement near Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...

, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 that was founded by Afrikaners who want to preserve their culture. It has only recently been developed and has a limited economy. It was founded by descendants of the original Voortrekkers or Boer
Boer
Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...

s who seek self-determination
Self-determination
Self-determination is the principle in international law that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or external interference...

 in an autonomous Volkstaat
Volkstaat
Volkstaat is a proposal for the establishment of self determination for the Boer and Afrikaners minority in South Africa according to federal principles, alluding to full independence in the form of a homeland for Boer and Afrikaners....

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Location

The town is located roughly half-way between Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...

 and Bronkhorstspruit. It lies just south of the N4
N4
N4, N-4, N.4, or N04 may refer to:* , an unstable molecule of nitrogen.* Washburn N4, an electric guitar* N4 Markup Language* N°4, a shortening for Number Four* N4, a postcode district in the N postcode area...

, just west of the R515, a few kilometers south of Rayton
Rayton
Rayton is a town in North-Eastern Gauteng, South Africa.'Rayton Junction', as it was first known, started out as a tin shack mining town on the farm Elandshoek....

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