List of reservoirs and dams in South Africa
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The following is a partial list of dams and reservoirs in South Africa.
In South African English (as well as Afrikaans) a dam refers to both the wall as well as the reservoir or lake that builds up as a consequence.

List of dams (reservoirs)

Name of Dam (Alternative) Nearest Town Province Impounds Year completed (commissioned) Capacity (Megaliter) Surface Area (km2) Height of Wall (meter) Location Notes
Albasini Dam
Albasini Dam
The Albasini Dam is a dam located just outside the town of Louis Trichardt Limpopo, South Africa. The dam has a capacity of , and a surface area of . the wall is high.The dam was named after João Albasini .-See also:...

 
Polokwane
Polokwane
Polokwane, meaning "Place of Safety",is a city in the Polokwane Local Municipality and the capital of the Limpopo province, South Africa. It is also often referred to by its former name, Pietersburg. Polokwane is a major urban centre, the biggest and most important north of Gauteng. The population...

 
Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Levubu River
Levubu River
The Levubu River is located in the northern Limpopo province of South Africa. Some of its tributaries, such as the Mutshindudi River and Mutale River rise in the Soutpansberg Mountains...

 (Luvuvhu River)
1952 28,200 3.498 34 23°6′30"S 30°7′48.2"E
Albert Falls Dam
Albert Falls Dam
Albert Falls Dam is dam in the Umgeni River, just outside Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, province, South Africa. It was established in 1976. It has a gross capacity of , and a surface area of , the dam wall is high.- References :...

 
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838, and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its "purist" Zulu name is umGungundlovu, and this is the name used for the district municipality...

KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Umgeni River  1976 288,100 23.521 33 29°26′10"S 30°23′18"E
Allemanskraal Dam
Allemanskraal Dam
The Allemanskraal Dam is a dam in the Free State province of South Africa, on the Sand River. It was established in 1960. The reservoir has a gross capacity of , and a surface area of , the dam wall is high.- References :...

 
Ventersburg
Ventersburg
Ventersburg is a small town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa. It was established on the farm Kromfontein which was owned by PA Venter who died in 1857. His son allowed a Reform Church to be established on the farm in 1864 and by 1871, the first...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Sand River
Sand River (Free State)
The Sand River is located close to Welkom and Virginia, in the Free State, South Africa, in the gold mining center of the Free State. It is considered part of the Middle Vaal Catchment Management Area....

 
1960 174,500 26.481 38 28°17′15"S 27°9′1"E
Alphen Dam
Alphen Dam
Alphen Dam is a small dam in the Bonte River near Stellenbosch, Western Cape, province South Africa. It was established in 1990.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Stellenbosch Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Bonte River  1990 70 0.01 18.3 34°00′42"S 18°52′25"E
Armenia Dam
Armenia Dam
Armenia Dam is a dam in the Leeu River, near Hobhouse, Free State, province South Africa. It was established in 1954.It has a capacity of , and a surface area of , the wall is high.- References :...

 
Hobhouse
Hobhouse
Hobhouse is a rare English surname, generally belonging to members of a family originally from Somerset. Those currently with this surname are members of several branches of this patronymic that achieved prominence from the 18th century...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Leeu River
Leeu River
Leeu River, , The Leeu Taaiboschspruit Catchment is situated in the Greater Sasolburg area in the Free State, South Africa.- Also see :* List of rivers of South Africa* List of reservoirs and dams in South Africa...

 
1954 13,000 3.933 22 29°22′15"S 27°8′1"E
Beervlei Dam
Beervlei Dam
Beervlei Dam is dam in the Groot River, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1975, has a capacity of , and a surface area of , and the dam wall is 31 m high.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Willowmore Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Groot River
Groot River (Eastern Cape)
The Groot River is a river in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces of South Africa.The Touws River tributary rises in the Matroosberg Mountains and flows east through the town of the same name and south into the Little Karoo, where it joins the Groot River...

 
1957 85,800 23.145 31 33°4′30"S 23°29′1"E
Bedford Dam  NE van Reenen Pass
De Beer's Pass (van Reenen)
De Beer's Pass , is called like that in order not to confuse it with another De Beers Pass situated in the Eastern Cape on the road between Cookhouse and Tarkastad. This De Beer's Pass is situated in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, east of Harrismith....

 
Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
(projected) 2012 22,000
Berg River Dam
Berg River Dam
The Berg River Dam is a 68 m high dam on the Berg river in South Africa. It is the centerpiece of the Berg Water Project which is designed to capture the winter rainfall and store it for supply to Cape Town during the dry summer months...

 
Franschhoek Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Berg River
Berg River
The Berg River is a river located just north of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is approximately 294 km long with a catchment area of 7,715 km² and outlets into the Atlantic Ocean. About 65% of the Berg River area is under agriculture...

 
2007 127,100 5.260 68
Binfield Park Dam
Binfield Park Dam
Binfield Park Dam is a dam on the Tyume River, near Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1986, and commissioned in 1987.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Alice
Alice, Eastern Cape
Alice, a town in South Africa, is named after Princess Alice, daughter of the British Queen Victoria. Many of the current political leaders in South Africa were educated at the University of Fort Hare, also the alma mater of former President Nelson Mandela...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Tyume River 1986 (1987) 36,830 1.870 60 32°41′55"S 26°54′18"E
Bivane Dam
Bivane Dam
Bivane Dam is dam on the Bivane River, near Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa . It was established in 2000.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 (Paris Dam)
Vryheid KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Bivane River
Bivane River
Bivane River, a tributary of the Pongola River, situated in the KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The ultimate source of the river is at over 2,000 m a.s.l. in the highlands north of Utrecht. It joins the Pongola on the western boundary of the Ithala Game Reserve....

 
2000 115,200 72 27°31′10"S 31°3′15"E
Bloemhoek Dam
Bloemhoek Dam
Bloemhoek Dam, is a dam located on a small river called Jordaan Spruit close to Kroonstad, Free State, province South Africa. It is part of the Vals River System...

Kroonstad
Kroonstad
Kroonstad is the third-largest town in the Free State province of South Africa, and lies two hours drive from Gauteng. In the 1991 census it had a population of 110,963...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

Jordaan Spruit 1976 26,400 2.800 28 27°38′1"S 27°17′0"E
Bloemhof Dam
Bloemhof Dam
Bloemhof Dam, was originally known as the Oppermansdrif Dam when under construction during the late 60's. Situated in the Vaal River, on the border between the North West, and Free State, provinces of South Africa. The dam wall is very long with a total length of 4 270m. The reservoir is very...

 (Oppermansdrif)
Bloemhof border North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

  Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Vaal River
Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source in the Drakensberg mountains in Mpumalanga, east of Johannesburg and about 30 km north of Ermelo and only about 240 km from the Indian Ocean. It then flows westwards to its conjunction...

 
1970 1,240,200 230.665 33 27°40′15"S 25°37′40"E
BlydeRivierpoort Dam
BlydeRivierpoort Dam
BlydeRivierpoort Dam is dam on the Blyde River, near Hoedspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1974.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Hoedspruit
Hoedspruit
Hoedspruit is a town situated at the foot of the Klein Drakensberg , in the Limpopo province of South Africa, on the railway line from Tzaneen to Kaapmuiden.-Economy:...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Blyde River
Blyde River
The Blyde River , or Motlatse River , is a river in the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces of South Africa. It has a northwards course in steep-sided valleys and ravines of the Mpumalanga Drakensberg, before it enters the lowveld region of the Limpopo province...

 
1974 54,400 2.494 71 24°32′15"S 30°47′20"E
Boegoeberg Dam
Boegoeberg Dam
Boegoeberg Dam is dam on the Orange River, near Prieska, Northern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1929.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Prieska Northern Cape
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of an international park shared with Botswana...

 
Orange River
Orange River
The Orange River , Gariep River, Groote River or Senqu River is the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean...

 
1929 19,800 7.423 12 29°2′30"S 22°12′13"E
Bon Accord Dam
Bon Accord Dam
Bon Accord Dam is dam located on the Apies River, some 15 km north of Pretoria. The dam comprises an earth embankment with a side spillway. The catchment area of the dam is 315 km² and consists primarily of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipal area Gauteng, South Africa...

 
Tshwane Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

 
Apies River
Apies River
The Apies River is a river that flows through the city of Pretoria, South Africa. Its source is located just south of the city and it flows northward until it drains into the Pienaars River....

 
1925 4,400 1.440 18 25°37′45"S 28°11′21"E
Bongolo Dam
Bongolo Dam
Bongolo Dam, is located on the Komani River, near Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The dam has a capacity of . The Bongola Dam, about 5 km from town on the Dordrecht road, is one of Queenstown’s main sources of water. The wall was begun in 1905 and was for years the largest concrete dam...

 (Bonkolo)
Queenstown
Queenstown, Eastern Cape
Queenstown, named after Queen Victoria, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly half way in between the towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom. It is currently the commercial, administrative, and educational centre of the prosperous surrounding farming district...

 
Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Komani River
Komani River
Komani River, is a short river originating north of Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, and joining up with the Klaas Smits River, just south of the same town, however the Bongolo Dam, is situated on this river....

1908 7,015 24 31°52′04.4"S 26°55′15.4"E
Boskop Dam
Boskop Dam
Boskop Dam is dam on the Mooi River, near Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1959.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Potchefstroom North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

 
Mooi River  1959 20,840 3.741 33 26°33′45"S 27°6′1"E
Boschmanskop No 1 Dam
Boschmanskop No 1 Dam
Boschmanskop No 1 Dam, is a dam on the Woes-Alleen River, near Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1995.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Middelburg
Middelburg
Middelburg is a municipality and a city in the south-western Netherlands and the capital of the province of Zeeland. It is situated in the Midden-Zeeland region. It has a population of about 48,000.- History of Middelburg :...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Woes-Alleen River 1995 14,400 0.185 22 26°1′6"S 29°37′50"E
Bospoort Dam
Bospoort Dam
Bospoort Dam is dam on the Hex River, near Rustenburg, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1933. It was originally the main water supply for the town of Rustenburg. In the sixties it was no longer used for drinking water due to contamination from Platinum and Chrome mines in the region...

 
Rustenburg North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

 
Hex River  1933 15,800 3.741 28 25°33′45"S 27°21′14.29"E
Braamhoek Dam  NE van Reenen Pass
De Beer's Pass (van Reenen)
De Beer's Pass , is called like that in order not to confuse it with another De Beers Pass situated in the Eastern Cape on the road between Cookhouse and Tarkastad. This De Beer's Pass is situated in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, east of Harrismith....

 
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Braamhoek Spruit  (projected) 2012 22,000
Brandvlei Dam
Brandvlei Dam
Brandvlei Dam is dam on the Lower Brandvlei River in Western Cape, South Africa.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 (Lake Marais)
Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Lower Brandvlei River 284,300 33°42′44"S 19°24′56"E
Bridle Drift Dam
Bridle Drift Dam
Bridal Drift Dam is dam on the Buffels River, near East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1969.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
East London Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Buffels River  1969 101,600 7.460 55 32°59′22"S 27°43′14"E
Bronkhorstspruit Dam
Bronkhorstspruit Dam
Bronkhorstspruit Dam is dam on the Bronkhorst Spruit, near Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1950.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Bronkhorstspruit Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

 
Bronkhorst Spruit
Bronkhorst Spruit
Bronkhost Spruit, , is a small river in Gauteng, province South Africa. The Bronkhorstspruit Dam, is located on this stream...

 
1950 57,400 9.609 35 25°53′15"S 28°43′15"E
Buffeljags Dam
Buffeljags Dam
Buffeljags Dam is dam on the Buffeljags River, near Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1967.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Swellendam
Swellendam
Swellendam is the third oldest town in the Republic of South Africa, a town with 28,072 inhabitants situated in the Western Cape province. The town has over 50 National monuments most of them buildings of Cape Dutch architecture....

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Buffeljags River
Buffeljags River
Buffeljags River , is a river that originates at a point where two other rivers join each other, the one being the Grootvadersbos River and the other is called the Tradou River. The point is just east of a small town called Suurbraak, Western Cape province South Africa...

 
1967 4,800 1.248 24 34°00′37"S 20°33′11"E
Buffelspoort Dam
Buffelspoort Dam
Buffelspoort Dam is a dam situated on the Sterkstroom River, to the east of Rustenburg, to the west of Hartbeespoort Dam, and to the north of the Magaliesberg mountain range in the North West Province, South Africa.-See also:...

Rustenburg North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Sterkstroom River 1934 10,251 1.357 34 25°46′50"S 27°29′1"E
Ceres Koekedouw Dam
Ceres Koekedouw Dam
Ceres Koekedouw Dam is dam on the Koekedouw River, near Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Ceres
Ceres, Western Cape
Ceres is a town with 46,251 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre and largest town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality. Ceres serves as a regional centre for the surrounding towns of Wolseley, Tulbagh, Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfred Hamlet...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Loekedouw River  2001 17,200 0.107 60 33°21′45"S 19°16′31"E
Churchill Dam
Churchill Dam
Churchill Dam is dam situated in the Kromme River , near Kreedouw, Eastern Cape, in South Africa. It was established in 1943.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 (Krom River Dam)
Kareedouw
Kareedouw
Kareedouw is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre for the Kou-Kamma Municipality in the Cacadu District of the Eastern Cape.The town's name derives from the Khoe phrase meaning "path by the karee trees"...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Krom River  1943 35,500 2.492 43 30°00′03"S 24°29′34"E
Clanwilliam Dam
Clanwilliam Dam
Clanwilliam Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Olifants River, near Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1935, and the wall was raised to its current height of in 1964. The main purpose of the dam is to provide irrigation water to the agricultural region downstream...

 
Clanwilliam Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Olifants River  1935 121,800 11.236 43 32°11′5"S 18°52′1"E
Craigie Burn Dam
Craigie Burn Dam
Craigie Burn Dam is dam on the Mnyamvubu River, near Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was established in 1963.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Greytown KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Mnyamvubu River  1963 22,500 2.073 38 29°9′47"S 30°17′2"E
Dap Naude Dam
Dap Naude Dam
Dap Naudé Dam is dam on the Broederstroom River, near Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1958.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Polokwane
Polokwane
Polokwane, meaning "Place of Safety",is a city in the Polokwane Local Municipality and the capital of the Limpopo province, South Africa. It is also often referred to by its former name, Pietersburg. Polokwane is a major urban centre, the biggest and most important north of Gauteng. The population...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Broederstroom River  1958 1,900 0.281 23
Da Gama Dam
Da Gama Dam
Da Gama Dam, is a dam on the Witwaters River, near White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1971.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

White River
White River, Mpumalanga
White River is a small holiday and farming town situated just north of Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce tropical fruits, vegetables, flowers and timber. After the Boer War the British demarcated land on the Emanzimhlope River, a tributary of the Limpopo River....

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Witwaters River 1971 13,578 1.289 38 25°8′30"S 31°1′1"E
Damani Dam
Damani Dam
Damani Dam, is a dam on the Mbwedi River, near Thohoyandou , Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1991.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou is a town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre of Vhembe District Municipality and Thulamela Local Municipality. It is also known for being the former capital of the bantustan of Venda....

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

Mbwedi River 1991 11,000 0.130 28 22°50′7"S 30°31′22"E
Darlington Dam
Darlington Dam
Darlington Dam, also referred to as Lake Mentz. is a dam situated in the Sundays River, near Kirkwood, in Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1922. The dam has a capacity of , with a -high wall....

 (Lake Mentz)
Kirkwood
Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
Kirkwood is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is situated on the banks of the Sundays River in the eponymously-named Sundays River Valley, which forms part of the Sundays River Valley Municipality in the Cacadu District of the Eastern Cape....

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Sundays River
Sundays River
The Sundays River is a river in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and is said to be the fastest flowing river in South Africa. The Khoisan people originally named this river Nukakamma because the river's banks are always green and grassy despite the arid terrain that it runs...

1922 188,800 34.527 48 33°12′22"S 25°8′1"E
De Hoop Dam
De Hoop Dam
De Hoop Dam is a dam on the Kamdeboo River, near Graaf-Reinet, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1938.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Graaf-Reinet Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Kamdeboo River 1938 16,500 15 32°27′5"S 24°25′23.6"E
Disaneng Dam
Disaneng Dam
Disaneng Dam, is a dam on the Molopo River, near Mmabatho, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1980 .- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Mmabatho
Mmabatho
Mmabatho is the former capital of the North-West Province of South Africa. In the apartheid era, it was the capital of the former "Bantustan" of Bophuthatswana. Following the end of apartheid in 1994, Bophuthatswana was integrated into the newly established North-West Province and Mmabatho was...

North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Molopo River
Molopo River
The Molopo River is located in southern Africa. The river generally flows to the southwest from its source, and has a length of approximately 960 kilometres. River flow is intermittent. When in flood, the flow discharges into the Orange River, which it meets downstream of Augrabies Falls National...

1980 17,400 4.253 17 25°49′25"S 25°18′20"E
Doorndraai Dam
Doorndraai Dam
Doorndraai Dam is dam on the Sterk River, near Mokopane, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1952.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Mokopane
Mokopane
Mokopane , is a town in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The town was established by the Voortrekkers and named Potgietersrus after the slain Voortrekker leader Piet Potgieter...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Sterk River  1952 43,800 5.606 25 24°16′45"S 28°46′1"E
Doring River Dam
Doring River Dam
Doring River Dam, also spelled Doorn River Dam, is dam on the Doring River, near Indwe, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1971.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Indwe Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Doring River
Doring River
Doring River, The Doring River originates northeast of Ceres and joins the Olifants River near the towns of Klawer and Vredendal, Western Cape, South Africa...

1971 19,690 3.592 35 31°30′47"S 27°20′30"E
Douglas Weir
Douglas Weir
Douglas Weir is dam on the Vaal River, near Douglas, Northern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1977.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Douglas
Douglas, Northern Cape
Douglas is a town situated near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal Rivers in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. On this fertile soil nestles the town of Douglas. The town itself is a green patchwork of dramatic contrast - space for the solitary and activity for the energetic...

Northern Cape
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of an international park shared with Botswana...

Vaal River
Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source in the Drakensberg mountains in Mpumalanga, east of Johannesburg and about 30 km north of Ermelo and only about 240 km from the Indian Ocean. It then flows westwards to its conjunction...

1977 16,700 7.991 10 29°4′1"S 23°50′1"E
Driekloof Dam
Driekloof Dam (Western Cape)
Driekloof Dam is dam on the Klip River, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1989.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Klip River  1989 263 15
Driekloof Dam
Driekloof Dam
Driekloof Dam is a small section of the Sterkfontein Dam, Free State, South Africa. A section of the Sterkfontein Dam reservoir is isolated after the construction of Driekloof Dam, this small reservoir has a capacity of ., together with the Kilburn Dam almost 500 meters lower, Driekloof forms part...

 
Harrismith
Harrismith
Harrismith, named after Sir Harry Smith, is a large town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated on the N3 highway approximately midway between Johannesburg, about 300 km north-east, and Durban. The town is at the junction with the N5 highway, which continues west towards the...

 
Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Nuwejaar Spruit  1979 32,071 1.906 47 28°31′1"S 29°4′1"E
Driekoppies Dam
Driekoppies Dam
Driekoppies Dam is a dam on the Komati River, near Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1998.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Malelane
Malelane
Malalane is a farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa situated on the N4 national highway. The farms in the region produce sugarcane, subtropical fruit and winter vegetables. The town was proclaimed in 1949 after which it was named. The origin of the name is disputed but was corrupted from the...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Lomati River  1998 250,900 18.700 50
Ebenezer Dam
Ebenezer Dam
Ebenezer Dam is dam on the Groot Letaba River, near Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1959.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Tzaneen
Tzaneen
Tzaneen is a small town situated in the Mopani district of the Limpopo province in South Africa. It is in a fertile region with tropical and subtropical agriculture taking place in a 20,000 km² region...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Groot Letaba River
Groot Letaba River
Groot Letaba River, The Groot Letaba headwater streams originate in the Drakensberg Escarpment, descending in long runs with an occasional riffle or pool. Mostly in the Limpopo, province South Africa. At the higher level the Broederstroom, Politsi River, Debengeni River, Letsitele River, and...

 
1959 69,100 3.862 61 23°56′30"S 29°59′1"E
Egmont Dam
Egmont Dam
Egmont Dam is dam on the Witte Spruit, near Van Stadensrus, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1937.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Van Stadensrus Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Witte Spruit  1937 9,300 2.442 25 30°02′55"S 27°02′22"E
Eikenhof Dam
Eikenhof Dam
Eikenhof Dam is dam on the Palmiet River, near Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1977.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Grabouw
Grabouw
Grabouw is a mid-sized town located in the Western Cape province of South Africa some 65 km south-east of Cape Town along the N2 highway. It is located over Sir Lowry's Pass from Somerset West in the Elgin Valley, which is sandwiched between the Hottentots-Holland, Kogelberg and Groenland...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Palmiet River
Palmiet River
Palmiet River,is located in the Western Cape province South Africa. The Palmiet River is a typical Western Cape river, experiencing winter rainfall. It has a small catchment area of 500 km2. It has five irrigation and hydro-power dams along its length, and provides water for agricultural and...

1977 28,900 2.140 46 34°7′46"S 19°2′5"E
Elandskloof Dam
Elandskloof Dam
Elandskloof Dam is dam on the Elands River, near Villiersdorp, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1976.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Villiersdorp
Villiersdorp
Villiersdorp is a small town located in the Western Cape province of South Africa in the Overberg region; population 15,678.Unlike most of the geographical region which specialises in wheat and canola farming, the Villiersdorp Valley is now agriculturally and micro-climatatically more similar to...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Elands River 1976 11,017 0.700 69 33°57′1"S 19°17′1"E
Elandskuil Dam
Elandskuil Dam
Elandskuil Dam is dam on the Swartleegte River, North West, South Africa. It is located in Middle Vaal.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

North West Swartleegte River 1,200 26°20′34"S 26°46′42"E
Emmarentia Dam
Emmarentia Dam
Emmarentia Dam is a dam in Emmarentia, Johannesburg, South Africa. There are several dams that make up Emmarentia Dam, despite its allusion to the singular.The Johannesburg Botanical Garden is on the western shore of the dam....

Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

 
Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

Braamfontein Spruit
Braamfontein Spruit
Braamfonteinspruit River is the longest stream in Johannesburg. Originates in Geymont, Roodepoort. It is covered and canalised near its source, but once the river runs out of the Parkview Golf Course, it runs through parkland, right to the edge of the city, so that Johannesburgers can still enjoy...

1912 250 0.09 11 26°09′01"S 28°00′21"E
Erfenis Dam
Erfenis Dam
The Erfenis Dam is a dam in the Free State province of South Africa, on the Vet River, near Theunissen. It was established in 1960.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Theunissen
Theunissen
Theunissen is a small town that has the only wine estate, the Theunissen Wine Farm, in the Free State province of South Africa. It was founded by Boer War Commandant Helgaardt Theunissen...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Groot-Vet River  1960 207,500 32.821 46 28°30′39"S 26°46′38"E
Fika-Patso Dam
Fika-Patso Dam
Fika-Patso Dam is dam on the Namahadi River, near Phuthadithjaba, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1987.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Phuthaditjhaba
Phuthaditjhaba
Phuthaditjhaba is a town in the Free State province of South Africa. The frequent snow on the Drakensberg mountain peaks surrounding the town led the San to call the region Qwa-Qwa . It was known as Witsiehoek to the European settlers. The area was then turned into the bantustan or homeland of...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

Namahadi River 1987 28,000 1.585 65 28°51′9"S 28°40′30"E
Flag Boshielo Dam
Flag Boshielo Dam
Flag Boshielo Dam is dam on the Olifants River, near Marble Hall, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1987.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Marble Hall
Marble Hall
Marble Hall is a small town in the south of the Limpopo province, in South Africa. It was formerley in Mpumalanga provinse.-History:While on a hunting expedition from Pretoria, Christoffel Visagie and his family discovered a hole containing marble in 1920...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Olifants River  1987 185,100 12.877 36 24°47′0"S 29°25′40"E
Floriskraal Dam
Floriskraal Dam
Floriskraal Dam is a dam on the Buffels River, near Laingsburg, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1957.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Laingsburg
Laingsburg, Western Cape
- History :Laingsburg was first established in the 1870s by Stephanus Greeff. He bought the farm Vischkuil-aan-de-Buffelsrivier . The town only started developing when the railway line to it was completed...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Buffels River 1957 50,334 7.592 33 33°17′30"S 20°59′6"E
Gamkapoort Dam
Gamkapoort Dam
Gamkapoort Dam is a dam on the Gamka River, near Prince Albert, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1969.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Prince Albert
Prince Albert
Prince Albert was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria.Prince Albert may also refer to:-Royalty:*Prince Albert Edward or Edward VII of the United Kingdom , son of Albert and Victoria...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Gamka River
Gamka River
Gamka River, located in Western Cape, South Africa, the name 'Gamka' means 'Lion' and was probably named this by the San . The river originates north of Beaufort West, generally flowing southwest towards the Gamkapoort Dam....

1969 37,213 6.015 42 33°18′1"S 21°38′36"E
Gariep Dam
Gariep Dam
Gariep Dam is a dam in South Africa, near the town of Norvalspont, Free State, province South Africa.-Overview:The Gariep Dam was originally called the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam after the first Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd on its commission in 1971...

 (Hendrik Verwoerd Dam)
Norvals Pont Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Orange River
Orange River
The Orange River , Gariep River, Groote River or Senqu River is the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean...

 
1971 5,340,600 352.162 88 30°37′30"S 25°30′58"E
Glen Alpine Dam
Glen Alpine Dam
Glen Alpine Dam is dam on the Magalakwena River, near Makopane, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1968.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Mokopane
Mokopane
Mokopane , is a town in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The town was established by the Voortrekkers and named Potgietersrus after the slain Voortrekker leader Piet Potgieter...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Magalakwena River  1968 18,900 4.613 28 23°11′30"S 28°41′5"E
Goedertrouw Dam
Goedertrouw Dam
Goedertrouw Dam is dam in South Africa. The Dam was constructed on the Mhlathuze River, near Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, in 1980 . It currently has a capacity of 300 million m3 and is principally for provision of water to the industrial complex at Richards Bay.- References :* from the Department of...

 
Eshowe KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Mhlatuze River
Mhlatuze River
Mhlathuze River, catchment has a surface area of 4,209 km2. Located in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It rises in the west at an altitude of 1,519m and flows over 100km eastwards to the sea. The deep-sea port of Richards Bay is situated at the mouth of the Mhlathuze River and all industrial...

 
1982 301,300 11.939 88 28°45′52"S 31°25′46"E
Grassridge Dam
Grassridge Dam
The Grassridge Dam is a dam on the Great Brak River, near Hofmeyr, Eastern Cape, South Africa and is the starting point for the Fish River Canoe Marathon. The Dam was constructed in 1923 .- References :...

Hofmeyer Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Great Brak River 1924 46,200 14.145 24 31°45′30"S 25°28′1"E
Groendal Dam
Groendal Dam
Groendal Dam is a dam on the Swartkops River, near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The Dam was constructed in 1933 .- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Uitenhage
Uitenhage
Uitenhage is a South African town with 275,185 inhabitants in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent. The town's name is pronounced by English speakers and in Afrikaans...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Swartkops River 1934 12,100 0.960 51 33°42′1"S 25°16′23"E
Greater Brandvlei Dam
Greater Brandvlei Dam
Greater Brandvlei Dam is a dam on a tributary of the Breede River, near Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa. It was It was formed by joining the original Brandvlei Dam and the Kwaggaskloof Dam after reconstruction in 1989.- References :...

 
Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...

 
Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Breede River
Breede River
The Breede River , is a river in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Travelling inland north from Cape Town, the river runs in a west to east direction, the surrounding western mountains thus forming the first continental divide experienced by European settlers in the 18th century...

1989 474,046 41.122 18 33°42′1"S 19°27′46"E
Grootdraai Dam
Grootdraai Dam
Grootdraai Dam is a dam on the Vaal River, near Standerton, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1981.Grootdraai Dam is a composite structure comprising a central concrete gravity section 360m long and two earthfill flanks giving a total crest length of 2 180m and a maximum wall height...

 
Standerton
Standerton
Standerton is a large commercial and agricultural town lying on the banks of the Vaal River in Mpumalanga, South Africa which specialises in cattle, dairy, maize and poultry farming. The town was established in 1876 and named after Boer leader Commadant AH Stander. During the Second Boer War a...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Vaal River
Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source in the Drakensberg mountains in Mpumalanga, east of Johannesburg and about 30 km north of Ermelo and only about 240 km from the Indian Ocean. It then flows westwards to its conjunction...

 
1981 349,500 38.813 42 26°55′9.2"S 29°17′1"E
Hartbeespoort Dam
Hartbeespoort Dam
Hartbeespoort Dam also known as Harties is a dam situated in the North West Province of South Africa . It lies in a valley to the south of the Magaliesberg mountain range and north of the Witwatersberg mountain range, about 35 kilometres west of Pretoria...

 
Brits
Brits, North West
Brits is a large town and district situated in a fertile, citrus, vegetable and grain-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province of South Africa. It is close to the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, which includes Pretoria and...

North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

 
Crocodile River
Crocodile River (West)
Crocodile River , has its source in the Witwatersrand mountain range, originates in Constantia Kloof, Roodepoort, Gauteng province, South Africa. The first dam it encounters is a private dam known as the Heia Safari Ranch Dam just west of the Lanseria Airport. Just north of this airport the Jukskei...

 
1925 186,400 20.652 59 25°43′30"S 27°51′35"E
Hazelmere Dam
Hazelmere Dam
Hazelmere Dam is a dam on the Mdloti River, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. It was established in 1977.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Hazelmere  KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

Mdloti River 1977 17,858 1.813 50 29°36′1"S 31°2′30"E
Hellsgate Dam
Hellsgate Dam
Hellsgate Dam is a dam on the Klip River, near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1910.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Uitenhage
Uitenhage
Uitenhage is a South African town with 275,185 inhabitants in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent. The town's name is pronounced by English speakers and in Afrikaans...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Klip River  1910 120 26
Heyshope Dam
Heyshope Dam
Heyshope Dam is a dam on the Assegaai River, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1983.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Assegaai River
Assegaai River
Assegaai River, originates north of Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga, South Africa, and runs into the Heyshope Dam, southeast of Piet Retief it joins the Mhkondvo River. Tributaries of the Assegaai include: Ngulane River, Anysspruit, Boesmanspruit, and Klein Assegaai River.-Also see:* List of rivers of...

 
1983 451,300 50.238 29 26°59′45"S 30°31′50"E
Impofu Dam
Impofu Dam
Impofu Dam is a dam on the Krom River, near Humansdorp, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1982.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Humansdorp
Humansdorp
Humansdorp is a small town and surrounding district in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, with a population of around 35,000 . It is part of the Kouga Local Municipality of the Cacadu District. The town is the centre of the district's light industry and farming...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Krom River  1982 105,800 6.350 75 34°5′45"S 24°41′1"E
Inanda Dam
Inanda Dam
Inanda Dam is a dam on the Umgeni River, near Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was established in 1989.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Hillcrest
Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal
Hillcrest is a settlement within eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and forms a part of the Upper Highway Area.-History:Hillcrest was formerly a sleepy village, governed by its own Town Board on the outskirts of Durban that has now become a booming suburb incorporated into the eThekwini...

KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Umgeni River  1989 241,700 14.633 65 29°42′1"S 30°52′1"E
Injaka Dam
Injaka Dam
Injaka Dam, also spelled Inyaka Dam is a dam on the Marite River, near Hazyview, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 2002.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 (also spelled Inyaka)
Hazyview Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Marite River  2002 123,700 8.111 53 24°53′10"S 31°5′55"E
Jericho Dam
Jericho Dam
Jericho Dam is a dam on the Mpama River, near Amsterdam, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1966.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Mpama River 1966 59,500 9.825 22 26°39′15"S 30°29′10"E
Kalkfontein Dam
Kalkfontein Dam
Kalkfontein Dam is a dam on the Riet River, near Koffiefontein, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1938.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Koffiefontein
Koffiefontein
Koffiefontein is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. Farming in the district focuses on cattle and sheep farming with lucerne, potatoes and ground nuts being the main crops sown. There are also a cheese factory and vineyards in the town...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Riet River
Riet River
The Riet River is a westward-flowing tributary of the Vaal River in central South Africa, of which a major tributary, in turn, is the Modder River. In precolonial times the Riet was known as the Gama-!ab , a !Kora name meaning muddy...

 
1938 325,100 37.697 36 29°29′45"S 25°13′20"E
Kammanassie Dam
Kammanassie Dam
Kammanassie Dam is a dam on the Kammanassie River, near De Rust, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1923.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

De Rust
De Rust
De Rust is a small village at the gateway to the Klein Karoo.De Rust is located at the foot of the Swartberg Mountain range between Oudtshoorn and Beaufort West...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Kammanassie River 1923 35,870 3.516 41 33°40′1"S 22°25′1"E
Katrivier Dam
Katrivier Dam
Katrivier Dam is a dam on the Kat River, near Seymour, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1969.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Seymour Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Kat River 1969 24,690 2.129 55 32°34′15"S 26°45′1"E
Katse Dam
Katse Dam
The Katse Dam, a concrete arch dam on the Malibamat'so River in Lesotho, is Africa's second largest dam....

Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...

Malibamat'so River
Malibamat'so River
The Malibamat'so River is a river in northern Lesotho. It flows south from close to the South African border, past the town of Ha Lejone, and joins the Senqu River close to the town of Taung. The waters of the Malibamat'so River are dammed by the Katse Dam, the continent's highest ....

1996 185 29°20′13"S 28°30′22"E
Keerom Dam
Keerom Dam
Keerom Dam is a dam on the Nuy River, near Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1954.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Nuy River 1954 10,400 40 33°34′44"S 19°42′18"E
Kettingspruit Dam
Kettingspruit Dam
Kettingspruit Dam is a dam on a tributary of the Ketting Spuit, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 2006.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

tributary of Ketting Spuit 2006 70,000 24°10′10"S 30°31′30"E
Kilburn Dam
Kilburn Dam
The Kilburn Dam, part of the Tugela-Vaal Water Project and Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme, is located lower than the Sterkfontein Dam, on the Mnjaneni River, near Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal, province of South Africa...

 
Bergville  KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Mnjaneni River  1981 35,577 1.947 51 28°35′1"S 29°6′50"E
Klerkskraal Dam
Klerkskraal Dam
Klerkskraal Dam is a dam on the Mooi River, near Ventersdorp, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1965.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Ventersdorp North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Mooi River  1965 7,900 3.773 15 26°13′59"S 27°08′55"E
Klipberg Dam
Klipberg Dam
Klipberg Dam is a dam on the Konings River, near McGregor, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1964. It is located in the Breede Water Management Area.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

McGregor
McGregor, Western Cape
McGregor is a small village in the mountains of the Western Cape, South Africa. It is roughly 150 km east of Cape Town. It is located in Ward 5 of the Breede River Winelands Municipality. According the Census 2001, this Ward has a population of 10,254 people .The village was established in...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Konings River 1964 1,996 29 33°56′29"S 19°47′21"E
Klipdrif Dam
Klipdrif Dam
Klipdrif Dam is a dam on the Loop Spruit, near Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1918.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Potchefstroom North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Loop Spruit  1918 13,300 4.713 12 26°37′0"S 27°18′1"E
Klipkoppie Dam
Klipkoppie Dam
Klipkoppie Dam is a dam on the White River, near the town of White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1960.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

|White River
White River, Mpumalanga
White River is a small holiday and farming town situated just north of Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce tropical fruits, vegetables, flowers and timber. After the Boer War the British demarcated land on the Emanzimhlope River, a tributary of the Limpopo River....

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

White River 1960 12,256 2.354 20 25°13′1"S 31°1′10"E
Klipvoor Dam
Klipvoor Dam
Klipvoor Dam is a dam on the Pienaars River, near Brits, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1970.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Brits
Brits, North West
Brits is a large town and district situated in a fertile, citrus, vegetable and grain-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province of South Africa. It is close to the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, which includes Pretoria and...

North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Pienaars River
Pienaars River
The Pienaars River originates east of Pretoria, City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province, South Africa, flowing northwards into Roodeplaat Dam , from where it carries on northward until it passes under the N1 and turns westward. North of Makapanstad the Apies River joins it...

1970 47,000 7.532 30 25°7′1"S 27°48′59"E
Knellpoort Dam
Knellpoort Dam
Knellpoort Dam is a dam on the Riet Spruit, near Wepener, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1988.Due to siltation, the storage capacity of the Welbedacht Dam reduced rapidly from the original 115 million m3 to approximately 16 million m3 during the twenty years since completion...

 
Wepener
Wepener
Wepener is a village in the Free State, South Africa, located on the border with Lesotho. The town is named after Louw Wepener, the leader of the Boers in their war with the Basotho chief Moshoeshoe I in 1865. It was founded in 1867 on the banks of Jammersbergspruit, a tributary of the Caledon...

 
Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Riet Spruit  1988 130,000 9.854 50 29°47′1"S 26°53′10"E
Kogelberg Dam
Kogelberg Dam
Kogelberg Dam is a dam on the Palmiet River, near Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1986.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Grabouw
Grabouw
Grabouw is a mid-sized town located in the Western Cape province of South Africa some 65 km south-east of Cape Town along the N2 highway. It is located over Sir Lowry's Pass from Somerset West in the Elgin Valley, which is sandwiched between the Hottentots-Holland, Kogelberg and Groenland...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Palmiet River
Palmiet River
Palmiet River,is located in the Western Cape province South Africa. The Palmiet River is a typical Western Cape river, experiencing winter rainfall. It has a small catchment area of 500 km2. It has five irrigation and hydro-power dams along its length, and provides water for agricultural and...

 
1986 19,000 1.426 54 34°12′57"S 18°58′31"E
Kommandodrif Dam
Kommandodrif Dam
Kommandodrif Dam, is situated in the Tarka River, near Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The dam has a capacity of , the wall is high. The dam is included in the Commando Drift Nature Reserve.- References :...

Cradock
Cradock, Eastern Cape
Cradock is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, in the upper valley of the Great Fish River, by rail northeast of Port Elizabeth. The town is the administrative seat of the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape. The estimated population...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Tarka River
Tarka River
The Tarka River is a river in South Africa. Along with the Baviaans River and Kat River it is a major eastern tributary of the Great Fish River.-References:...

1956 58,114 8.820 39 32°7′1"S 26°3′9"E
Koppies Dam
Koppies Dam
Koppies Dam is a dam on the Renoster River, near Koppies, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1911.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Koppies
Koppies
Koppies is a small town situated near the Renoster River in the Free State province of South Africa. It was originally called "Honing Kopjes" which is Dutch for "honey hills". This was due to there being Bee infestations in the nearby rocky hills, during the building of the railway line in 1904 by...

 
Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Renoster River  1911 42,300 13.622 25 27°15′25"S 27°40′15"E
Kouga Dam
Kouga Dam
The Kouga Dam supplies irrigations water to the Kouga and Gamtoos valleys as well as drinking water to the Port Elizabeth metropolitan area via the Lourie, South Africa balancing dam....

 (Paul Sauer Dam)
Patensie Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Kouga River
Kouga River
Kouga River originates near Haarlem, Western Cape, South Africa, and flows eastward, where it joins the Gamtoos River just past the Kouga Dam. Tributaries include the Baviaanskloof River and the Nabooms River.- Also see :* List of rivers of South Africa...

 
1969 125,900 5.545 81 33°44′30"S 24°35′30"E
Kromfonteinlower (Wilge) Cofferdam
Kromfonteinlower (Wilge) Cofferdam
Kromfonteinlower Cofferdam is a dam on the Steenkool Spruit, near Witbank, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1992.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Witbank
Witbank
Witbank , also known as eMalahleni is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the eMalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for White Ridge and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wagon transport drivers rested...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Steenkool Spruit 1992 13,000 0.300 17 26°5′0"S 29°15′30"E
Kromfontein Middle Cofferdam
Kromfontein Middle Cofferdam
Kromfontein Middle Cofferdam is a dam on the Steenkool Spruit, near Witbank, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1990.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Witbank
Witbank
Witbank , also known as eMalahleni is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the eMalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for White Ridge and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wagon transport drivers rested...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Steenkool Spruit 1990 18,000 16 26°7′0"S 29°15′20"E
Krugersdrift
Krugersdrift
Krugerdrift Dan is a dam on the Modder River, near Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1970.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.Bloemfontein is popularly and...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

Modder River
Modder River
The Modder River is a river in South Africa that forms part of the border between the Northern Cape and the Free State provinces.Modder River may also refer to:* Modder River, Northern Cape - A small town in the Northern Cape....

1970 66,000 18.525 26 28°53′1"S 25°57′30"E
Kruismansrivier Dam
Kruismansrivier Dam
Kruismansrivier Dam, is a dam on the Kruismans River, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1997.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Kruismans River 1997 637,900 32°44′35"S 18°50′10"E
Kwaggaskloof Dam
Kwaggaskloof Dam
Kwaggaskloof Dam is a dam on the Wabooms River, near Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1975.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Wabooms River  1975 173,900 16.876 18 33°46′16"S 19°26′24"E
Kwena Dam
Kwena Dam
Kwena Dam is a dam on the Crocodile River, near Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1987.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 (Braam Raubenheimer Dam)
Lydenburg
Lydenburg
Lydenburg is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The town is slated to be renamed Mashishing, according to an announcement made on June 30, 2006 by the South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan. Lydenburg is situated on the Sterkspruit/Dorps River tributary of the Olifants River at...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Crocodile River
Crocodile River (Mpumalanga)
Crocodile River , also referred to as Crocodile River , . Originates North of Dullstroom, Mpumalanga, South Africa, in the Steenkampsberg Mountains. Downstream of Kwena Dam, the Crocodile River winds through the Schoemanskloof up to Montrose Falls. It flows eastwards past Nelspruit and into the...

 
1987 158,900 12.504 52 25°21′45"S 30°22′30"E
Laing Dam
Laing Dam
Laing Dam is a dam on the Buffalo River, near East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1951.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

East London Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

|Buffalo River
Buffalo River (Eastern Cape)
The Buffalo River or Cwenqgcwe is situated in the city of East London on the East Coast of South Africa. It is to the west of the Nahoon River. It is the only navigable river in South Africa. The town of East London was thus established around it....

1951 19,860 2.038 45 32°57′59"S 27°29′22"E
Lake Arthur Dam
Lake Arthur Dam
Lake Arthur Dam is a dam on the Tarka River, near Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1924.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Cradock
Cradock, Eastern Cape
Cradock is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, in the upper valley of the Great Fish River, by rail northeast of Port Elizabeth. The town is the administrative seat of the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape. The estimated population...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Tarka River
Tarka River
The Tarka River is a river in South Africa. Along with the Baviaans River and Kat River it is a major eastern tributary of the Great Fish River.-References:...

1924 10,700 8.867 38 32°13′1"S 25°49′45"E
Lake Mzingazi Dam
Lake Mzingazi Dam
Lake Mzingazi Dam is a dam on the Mzingazi River, near Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was established in 1942.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Richards Bay KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

Mzingazi River 1942 37,000 11.000 8 28°46′1"S 32°5′1"E
Lakenvallei Dam
Lakenvallei Dam
Lakenvallei Dam is a dam on Sanddrifskloof River, near Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1974.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Ceres
Ceres, Western Cape
Ceres is a town with 46,251 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre and largest town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality. Ceres serves as a regional centre for the surrounding towns of Wolseley, Tulbagh, Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfred Hamlet...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Sanddrifskloof River 1974 10,300 0.825 56 33°22′1"S 19°34′1"E
Leeu-Gamka Dam
Leeu-Gamka Dam
Leeu-Gamka Dam is a dam on the Leeuw River, near Beaufort West, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1958.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Beaufort West
Beaufort West
Beaufort West is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa. It is the largest town in the arid Great Karoo region, and forms part of the Beaufort West Local Municipality, with 37 000 inhabitants in 2001....

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Leeuw River 1958 42,211 4.258 21 32°37′18"S 22°59′0"E
Lindleyspoort Dam
Lindleyspoort Dam
Lindleyspoort Dam is a dam on the Elands River, near Swartruggens, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1943.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Swartruggens North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Elands River 1943 14,381 1.801 39 25°29′50"S 26°41′31.7"E
Loskop Dam
Loskop Dam
Loskop Dam is a dam on the Olifants River, near Groblersdal, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1939. The dam is situated in the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Groblersdal
Groblersdal
Groblersdal is a farming town situated 32 km North of the 178 million m³ Loskop Dam in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo.The town is South Africa's second largest irrigation settlement...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Olifants River  1939 361,500 24.277 54 25°25′1"S 29°21′1"E
Lubisi Dam
Lubisi Dam
Lubisi Dam is a dam on the Indwe River, near Qamata, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1968.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Qamata
Qamata
Qamata is the most prominent god in the folklore of the Xhosa people of south-easterm Africa. Qamata is the child of the sun god, Thixo, and the earth goddess, Jobela....

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Indwe River  1968 158,000 11.290 52 31°47′45"S 27°25′0"E
Luphephe Dam
Luphephe Dam
Luphephe Dam is a dam on the Luphephe River, near Musina, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1963.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Musina
Musina
Musina or Messina is the northernmost town in the Limpopo province of South Africa near the Limpopo River border to Zimbabwe. It has a population of between 20,000 and 40,000. Iron ore, coal, magnetite, graphite, asbestos, diamonds, semi-precious stones and copper are mined in the...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

Luphephe River 1963 14,000 1.416 42 22°38′0"S 30°24′30"E
Madikwe Dam
Madikwe Dam
Madikwe Dam is a dam on the Thulane River, near Madikwe, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1976.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Madikwe North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Thulane River 1976 14,000 4.318 17 25°23′36"S 26°35′51"E
Makuleke Dam
Makuleke Dam
Makuleke Dam is a dam on the Mphongolo River, near Giyani, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1990.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Giyani
Giyani
Giyani is a town in the Limpopo province in north eastern South Africa, and former capital of the Gazankulu bantustan. Giyani is located in the heart of Limpopo Bushveld, on the northern bank of the Klein Letaba River west of Kruger National Park...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

Mphongolo River 1990 13,000 0.750 22 22°52′3"S 30°54′18"E
Marico-Bosveld Dam
Marico-Bosveld Dam
Marico-Bosveld Dam is a dam on the Groot Marico River, near Groot Marico, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1933.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Groot Marico North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Groot Marico River
Groot Marico River
The Groot Marico River is a river in South Africa. The river rises east of Swartruggens, and forms the provincial border between the North West and Limpopo provinces. It also forms the border between South Africa and Botswana...

1933 27,813 4.376 34 25°28′15"S 26°23′50"E
Metz Dam
Metz Dam
Metz Dam is a dam on the Mortladime River, near Trichardsdal, Limpopo, South Africa.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Trichardsdal Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Mortladime River  385,000 18
Middelburg Dam
Middelburg Dam
Middelburg Dam is a dam on the Klein Olifants River, near Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1978.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Middelburg
Middelburg
Middelburg is a municipality and a city in the south-western Netherlands and the capital of the province of Zeeland. It is situated in the Midden-Zeeland region. It has a population of about 48,000.- History of Middelburg :...

Mpumlanga Klein Olifants River 1978 48,435 4.680 36 25°46′1"S 29°33′0"E
Middle Letaba Dam
Middle Letaba Dam
Middle Letaba Dam is a dam on the Middle Letaba River, near Giyani, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1984.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Giyani
Giyani
Giyani is a town in the Limpopo province in north eastern South Africa, and former capital of the Gazankulu bantustan. Giyani is located in the heart of Limpopo Bushveld, on the northern bank of the Klein Letaba River west of Kruger National Park...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Middle Letaba River
Middle Letaba River
The Middle Letaba River is a tributary of the Groot Letaba River, situated in Limpopo, South Africa.- See also :* List of reservoirs and dams in South Africa...

 
1984 171,900 18.787 34 23°16′0"S 30°24′1"E
Midmar Dam
Midmar Dam
Midmar Dam is a dam and recreation area near Pietermaritzburg , South Africa. Boating, swimming, waterskiing, picnicing, and fishing are popular pastimes at Midmar Dam. Each year, the Midmar Mile swimming race is held there, which organizers call "the world's largest open water swimming event"....

 
Howick
Howick, KwaZulu-Natal
Howick is a town located in the uMgungundlovu District of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The town is 1050 m above sea level, and about 88 kilometres from the port city of Durban. It enjoys warm summers and cool dry winters. A snappy chill descends upon Howick when snow falls on the nearby...

KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Umgeni  1965 235,400 15.643 32 29°29′43"S 30°12′1"E
Misverstand Dam
Misverstand Dam
Misverstand Dam is a dam on the Berg River, near Porterville, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1977.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Porterville
Porterville, Western Cape
Porterville is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa. It is situated 140 km north of Cape Town on R44 road at the base of the Olifants River mountains. Agriculture in the area is dominated by wheat production....

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Berg River
Berg River
The Berg River is a river located just north of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is approximately 294 km long with a catchment area of 7,715 km² and outlets into the Atlantic Ocean. About 65% of the Berg River area is under agriculture...

 
1977 6,400 2.552 26 33°01′44"S 18°47′36"E
Modderpoort Dam
Modderpoort Dam
Modderpoort Dam is a dam on the Rietfontein River, near Beaufort West, Northern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1953.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Beaufort West
Beaufort West
Beaufort West is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa. It is the largest town in the arid Great Karoo region, and forms part of the Beaufort West Local Municipality, with 37 000 inhabitants in 2001....

Northern Cape
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of an international park shared with Botswana...

Rietfontein River 1953 10,000 0.125 15 31°56′50"S 22°8′1"E
Mohale Dam
Mohale dam
The Mohale Dam, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project--Africa's largest dam project, eventually to include 5 large dams in remote rural areas--is a rock-fill dam in Lesotho. The potential of the project was identified by the South African Civil Engineer Ninham Shand as a possible means to...

 
Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...

 
Senqunyane River
Senqunyane River
The Senqunyane River is a river of central Lesotho. rises in the Maluti Mountains in the country's northwest, flowing south for 120 kilometres before joining the Senqu River in the country's southwest.-References:...

 
144
Mokolo Dam
Mokolo Dam
Mokolo Dam is a dam on the Mokolo River, near Lephalale, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1980.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 (Hans Strijdom Dam)
Lephalale
Lephalale
Ellisras or Lephalale is a coal mining town in the Limpopo province of South Africa immediately north of the Waterberg Massif. The town was established as Ellisras in 1960 and named after the original farm owners, Patrick Ellis and Piet Erasmus. In 2002, Ellisras was renamed Lephalale by the...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Mokolo River
Mokolo River
The Mokolo River is a major watercourse in Limpopo Province of South Africa. The river's catchment area comprises 8387 square kilometers. This river collects much of the drainage of the Waterberg Massif and discharges it to the Limpopo River...

 
1980 145,400 8.288 57 23°58′30"S 27°43′1"E
Molatedi Dam
Molatedi Dam
Molatedi Dam is a dam on the Marico River, near Zeerust, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1986.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Zeerust North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

 
Marico River
Marico River
Marico River, the river starts of as some small river systems join forces, in the North West and become the Groot-Marico River for a short distance its called Madikwene River, after that it becomes the Marico River, just before it drains into the Molatedi Dam, then it becomes the border between...

 
1986 200,800 35.670 23 24°52′13"S 26°27′1"E
Molteno Dam  Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Table Mountain rivers
Table Mountain
Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa, and is featured in the flag of Cape Town and other local government insignia. It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top...

 
1881 200 15 33°56′18"S 18°24′43"E
Morgenstond Dam
Morgenstond Dam
Morgenstond Dam is a dam on the Ngwempisi River, near Amsterdam, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1978.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Mpumalanga
Amsterdam is a small sheep farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Other than large sheep farms, there are large plantations of gum, pine and wattle trees in the area. The town also lies close to the border with Swaziland.- History :...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Ngwempisi River 1978 100,773 9.772 43 26°45′57"S 30°22′10"E
Mtata Dam
Mtata Dam
Mtata Dam is a dam on the Mtata River, near Umtata, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1977.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Umtata Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Mtata River  1977 253,674 25.417 18 31°32′56"S 28°44′0"E
Mutshedzi Dam
Mutshedzi Dam
Mutshedzi Dam is a dam on the Mutshedzi River, near Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1990.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou is a town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre of Vhembe District Municipality and Thulamela Local Municipality. It is also known for being the former capital of the bantustan of Venda....

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Mutshedzi River  1990 2,300 0.392 25 22°56′55"S 30°9′40"E
Nagle Dam
Nagle Dam
Nagle Dam is a dam on the Umgeni River, near Cato Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.It was established in 1950.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Cato Ridge KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

Umgeni River  1950 23,200 1.561 46 29°35′1"S 30°37′1"E
Nahoon Dam
Nahoon Dam
Nahoon Dam is a dam on the Nahoon River, near East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1966.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

East London Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Nahoon River
Nahoon River
The Nahoon River is situated in the city East London on the East Coast of South Africa. It is to the east of the Buffalo river harbour, and is to the west of Gonubie River. The suburb of Nahoon is on its west bank and Beacon Bay is on the east bank. The Nahoon Dam supplies some of the water for...

1966 19,934 2.347 44 32°54′36"S 27°48′55"E
Nandoni Dam
Nandoni dam
Nandoni Dam is situated along the Luvuvhu River It is situated at the village of ha-Mutoti and ha-Budeli just about few kilometres from Thohoyandou in the district of Vhembe in Limpopo province.The river follows a course along the southern edge of the Zoutpansberg and eventually joins the Limpopo...

 
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou is a town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre of Vhembe District Municipality and Thulamela Local Municipality. It is also known for being the former capital of the bantustan of Venda....

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Levuvuhu River  2004 166,100 15.700 47 22°59′20"S 30°36′27"E
Ncora Dam
Ncora Dam
Ncora Dam is a dam on the Tsomo River, near Tsomo, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1975.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Tsomo Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
Tsomo River 1975 150,100 13.920 44 31°47′15"S 27°40′1"E
Ngodwana Dam
Ngodwana Dam
Ngodwana Dam is a dam on the Ngodwana River, near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1984.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Nelspruit
Nelspruit
Nelspruit is a city of more than 500,000 people situated in northeastern South Africa. It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province . Located on the Crocodile River, Nelspruit lies about west of the Mozambique border and east of Johannesburg. The towns of Nelspruit are Kanyamazane and Pienaar...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Ngodwana River 1984 10,400 8.660 47 25°35′1"S 30°40′5"E
Ngotwane Dam
Ngotwane Dam
Ngotwane Dam is a dam on the Ngotwane River, near Lobathleng, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1982.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Lobathleng North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Ngotwane River 1982 18,800 3.900 19 25°11′52"S 25°48′1"E
Nooitgedacht Dam
Nooitgedacht Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Carolina
Carolina, Mpumalanga
Carolina is a town situated on the Johannesburg to Swaziland route in Mpumalanga province in South Africa. It is a mixed farming and on a small scale coal and precious stone mining community. It was established by Cornelius Coetzee as a permanent outspan for wagons when gold was discovered in 1883...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Komati River
Komati River
The Komati River is a river in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. It is long, with a drainage basin in size. Its mean annual discharge is 111 m³/s at its mouth...

 
1962 78,400 4.630 42 25°57′1"S 30°5′1"E
Nqweba Dam
Nqweba Dam
Nqweba Dam, is a dam on the Sundays River , near Graaff Reinet, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1925. The dam has a capacity of , and a surface area of , the wall is , and is long....

 (Previously Vanryneveld's Pass Dam)
Graaff Reinet
Graaff Reinet
Graaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the fourth oldest town in South Africa, after Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Swellendam.-History:...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Sundays River
Sundays River
The Sundays River is a river in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and is said to be the fastest flowing river in South Africa. The Khoisan people originally named this river Nukakamma because the river's banks are always green and grassy despite the arid terrain that it runs...

1925 46,369 10.285 42 32°14′8"S 24°31′4"E
Nwanedzi Dam
Nwanedzi Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Musina
Musina
Musina or Messina is the northernmost town in the Limpopo province of South Africa near the Limpopo River border to Zimbabwe. It has a population of between 20,000 and 40,000. Iron ore, coal, magnetite, graphite, asbestos, diamonds, semi-precious stones and copper are mined in the...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

Nwanedzi River 1964 5,100 36 22°38′36"S 30°24′29.5"E
Ntshingwayo Dam
Ntshingwayo Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Newcastle
Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
Newcastle is the third largest city and urban center in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Newcastle is located in the North West corner of the province along the Ncandu River and is moderately industrial....

KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Nsama River  1961 194,600 34.412 28
Nzhelele Dam
Nzhelele Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Musina
Musina
Musina or Messina is the northernmost town in the Limpopo province of South Africa near the Limpopo River border to Zimbabwe. It has a population of between 20,000 and 40,000. Iron ore, coal, magnetite, graphite, asbestos, diamonds, semi-precious stones and copper are mined in the...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

Nzhelele River 1948 51,200 5.442 47 22°43′30"S 30°5′5"E
Ohrigstad Dam
Ohrigstad Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Ohrigstad
Ohrigstad
Ohrigstad is a small town to the north of Lydenburg in the Mpumalanga province, South Africa. A fort was established by a group of Voortrekkers under the leadership of Andries Hendrik Potgieter with the help of a Dutch merchant Gregorius Ohrig. The settlers arrived in 1845 and were soon afterwards...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Ohrigstad River
Ohrigstad River
Ohrigstad River is located in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The Ohrigstad River joins the Blyde River at the BlydeRivierpoort Dam in the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve...

 
1955 13,400 52 24°55′1"S 30°37′8"E
Olifantsnek Dam
Olifantsnek Dam
Olifantsnek Dam, is a dam on the Hex River, near Rustenburg, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1928. The dam has a capacity of and a surface area of , the wall is , and has a length of ....

Rustenburg North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Hex River 1928 14,200 2.548 31 25°47′3"S 27°15′52"E
Oudebaaskraal
Oudebaaskraal
Oudebaaskraal Dam is dam on the Tankwa River near Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1969.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Ceres
Ceres, Western Cape
Ceres is a town with 46,251 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre and largest town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality. Ceres serves as a regional centre for the surrounding towns of Wolseley, Tulbagh, Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfred Hamlet...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Tankwa River 1969 34,000 8.000 21 32°23′1"S 19°54′5"E
Phiphidi Dam
Phiphidi Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou is a town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre of Vhembe District Municipality and Thulamela Local Municipality. It is also known for being the former capital of the bantustan of Venda....

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Mutshindudi River  1971 187,355 16
Pietersfontein Dam
Pietersfontein Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Montagu
Montagu, Western Cape
Montagu is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, about 180 km from Cape Town in western Kannaland. It is named after former secretary of the Cape Colony, John Montagu, but was once known as Agter Cogman’s Kloof. It is situated at the confluence of the Keisie and Kingna...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Pietersfontein River 1968 1,984 33
Pongolapoort Dam
Pongolapoort Dam
Pongolapoort Dam is a dam in South Africa in the Pongola River. The Dam was constructed at the eastern end of the narrow gorge separating the Lebombo and Ubombo ranges.It was established in 1973.- References :...

 
Jozini  KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Pongola River
Pongola River
The Pongola River is a river in South Africa. It is a tributary of the Maputo River. It rises near Utrecht in northern KwaZulu-Natal, flows east through Pongola, is dammed at Jozini, and crosses the Ubombo Mountains; then it flows north towards Mozambique, joining the Maputo River....

 
1973 2,267,100 132.728 89 27°25′15"S 32°4′30"E
Poortjieskloof Dam
Poortjieskloof Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Montagu
Montagu, Western Cape
Montagu is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, about 180 km from Cape Town in western Kannaland. It is named after former secretary of the Cape Colony, John Montagu, but was once known as Agter Cogman’s Kloof. It is situated at the confluence of the Keisie and Kingna...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Groot River
Groot River (Western Cape)
The Groot River of Western Cape Province is a South African river. It should is not to be confused with the Groot River of Eastern Cape and the Groot River of Southern Cape provinces....

1955 9,700 1.029 38
Qedusizi Dam
Qedusizi Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Ladysmith
Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
Ladysmith is a city in the Uthukela District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is north-west of Durban and south of Johannesburg. Important industries in the area include food processing, textile and tyre production...

KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Klip River  1998 133,295 19.594 32
Rhenosterkop Dam
Rhenosterkop Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Marble Hall
Marble Hall
Marble Hall is a small town in the south of the Limpopo province, in South Africa. It was formerley in Mpumalanga provinse.-History:While on a hunting expedition from Pretoria, Christoffel Visagie and his family discovered a hole containing marble in 1920...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

 
Elands River  1984 204,600 62.400 36 25°5′45"S 28°55′58.4"E
Rietvlei Dam
Rietvlei Dam
The Rietvlei dam is one of a number of dams supplying water to the Pretoria region of South Africa. It supplies around 41 million liters of drinking water daily, about 5.9% of the water requirement of Pretoria....

 
Tshwane Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

 
Rietvlei River, a tributary to the Hennops River
Hennops River
The Hennops River is a small river in Gauteng Province, South Africa that passes through Centurion. The banks of the Hennops are a popular location for hiking, camping and picnicking....

 
1933 12,300 1.890 21 25°52′35"S 28°15′1"E
Rockview Dam
Rockview Dam
Rockview Dam is dam on the Palmiet River near Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1986.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Grabouw
Grabouw
Grabouw is a mid-sized town located in the Western Cape province of South Africa some 65 km south-east of Cape Town along the N2 highway. It is located over Sir Lowry's Pass from Somerset West in the Elgin Valley, which is sandwiched between the Hottentots-Holland, Kogelberg and Groenland...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Palmiet River
Palmiet River
Palmiet River,is located in the Western Cape province South Africa. The Palmiet River is a typical Western Cape river, experiencing winter rainfall. It has a small catchment area of 500 km2. It has five irrigation and hydro-power dams along its length, and provides water for agricultural and...

1986 16,400 0.778 48 34°11′52"S 18°57′1"E
Roodekoppies Dam
Roodekoppies Dam
Roodekoppies Dam is dam on the Crocodile River near Brits, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1984.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Brits
Brits, North West
Brits is a large town and district situated in a fertile, citrus, vegetable and grain-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province of South Africa. It is close to the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, which includes Pretoria and...

North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Crocodile River
Crocodile River (West)
Crocodile River , has its source in the Witwatersrand mountain range, originates in Constantia Kloof, Roodepoort, Gauteng province, South Africa. The first dam it encounters is a private dam known as the Heia Safari Ranch Dam just west of the Lanseria Airport. Just north of this airport the Jukskei...

1984 103,000 15.710 25 25°24′15"S 27°35′29"E
Roodeplaat Dam
Roodeplaat Dam
Roodeplaat Dam is a concrete arch dam situated on the Pienaars River , a tributary of the Crocodile River, which flows northwards into the Limpopo River...

 
Tshwane Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

 
Pienaars River
Pienaars River
The Pienaars River originates east of Pretoria, City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province, South Africa, flowing northwards into Roodeplaat Dam , from where it carries on northward until it passes under the N1 and turns westward. North of Makapanstad the Apies River joins it...

 
1959 41,200 3.952 59 25°37′15"S 28°22′1"E
Rustfontein Dam
Rustfontein Dam
Rustfontein Dam is a dam on the Modder River near Thaba'Nchu, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1955.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Thaba Nchu
Thaba Nchu
Thaba Nchu is a town in Free State, South Africa, located 60 km east of Bloemfontein. Its population is largely made up of Tswana and Sotho people. The town was settled in the 1830s and officially established in 1873...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

Modder River
Modder River
The Modder River is a river in South Africa that forms part of the border between the Northern Cape and the Free State provinces.Modder River may also refer to:* Modder River, Northern Cape - A small town in the Northern Cape....

1955 72,200 11.585 36 29°16′15"S 26°37′1"E
Sandile Dam
Sandile Dam
Sandile Dam is a dam on the Keiskamma River near Keiskammahoek, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1983.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Keiskammahoek Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Keiskamma River 1983 30,960 1.460 61 32°43′0"S 27°6′4"E
Setumo Dam
Setumo Dam
Setumo Dam is a dam on the Molopo River near Mmabatho, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1995.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Mmabatho
Mmabatho
Mmabatho is the former capital of the North-West Province of South Africa. In the apartheid era, it was the capital of the former "Bantustan" of Bophuthatswana. Following the end of apartheid in 1994, Bophuthatswana was integrated into the newly established North-West Province and Mmabatho was...

North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Molopo River
Molopo River
The Molopo River is located in southern Africa. The river generally flows to the southwest from its source, and has a length of approximately 960 kilometres. River flow is intermittent. When in flood, the flow discharges into the Orange River, which it meets downstream of Augrabies Falls National...

1995 19,600 4.473 17 25°51′30"S 25°30′1"E
Slangdraai Dam
Slangdraai Dam
Slangdraai Dam is a dam on the Sundays River near Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was established in 1986.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Ladysmith
Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
Ladysmith is a city in the Uthukela District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is north-west of Durban and south of Johannesburg. Important industries in the area include food processing, textile and tyre production...

KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

Sundays River
Sundays River
The Sundays River is a river in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and is said to be the fastest flowing river in South Africa. The Khoisan people originally named this river Nukakamma because the river's banks are always green and grassy despite the arid terrain that it runs...

1986 10,300 2.400 15 28°15′1"S 29°45′1"E
Smartt Dam
Smartt Dam
Smartt Dam is a dam on the Ongers River near Britstown, Northern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1912.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Britstown
Britstown
Britstown is a small farming town situated in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, in the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Emthanjeni Local Municipality. The town is named after Hans Brits who settled here after he accompanied David Livingstone on a venture into the interior. In 1877 a...

Northern Cape
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of an international park shared with Botswana...

Ongers River 1912 100,300 31.569 28 30°37′45"S 23°18′16"E
Sol Plaatjie Dam
Sol Plaatjie Dam
Sol Plaatjie Dam is a dam on the Liebenbergsvlei River near Bethlehem, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1968.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 (Previously Saulspoort Dam)
Bethlehem
Bethlehem
Bethlehem is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank of the Jordan River, near Israel and approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

Liebenbergsvlei River 1968 15,676 3.560 24 28°13′1"S 28°22′1"E
Spioenkop Dam
Spioenkop Dam
Spioenkop Dam impounds the Tugela River in KwaZulu-Natal. It is located within a nature reserve by the same name. The dam was commissioned in 1973, has a capacity of , and a surface area of , the dam wall is high....

 
Ladysmith
Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
Ladysmith is a city in the Uthukela District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is north-west of Durban and south of Johannesburg. Important industries in the area include food processing, textile and tyre production...

 
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Tugela River
Tugela River
The Tugela River is the largest river in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The river originates in the Drakensberg Mountains, Mont-aux-Sources, and plunges 947 metres down the Tugela Falls...

 
1973 270,600 15.314 53
Spitskop Dam
Spitskop Dam
Spitskop Dam is in the Northern Cape Province north of the city of Kimberley in the Harts River South Africa. It was established in 1975 and rebuilt in 1988 after breaching during a flood. It has a full capacity of 57.89 million cubic meters of water....

Schmidtsdrift Northern Cape
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of an international park shared with Botswana...

Harts River
Harts River
The Harts River is a northern tributary of the Vaal River, which in turn is the largest tributary of the Orange River ....

1974 57,800 25.312 18 28°7′30"S 24°30′53.1"E
Steenbras Dam
Steenbras Dam
The Steenbras Dam is a dam in the Hottentots-Holland mountains near Cape Town in South Africa. It is one of the city's water supplies. The Steenbras pumped-storage scheme was opened in 1979 to supplement the city's electricity supply during peak demand periods....

 
Somerset West Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Steenbras River  1921 33,897 3.642 37 34°11′15"S 18°51′4"E
Steenbras Dam - Upper Gordons Bay Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Steenbras River 1977 32,483 2.750 37 34°10′5"S 18°54′5"E
Sterkfontein Dam
Sterkfontein Dam
The Sterkfontein Dam, located just outside the town of Harrismith, in the Free State, province of South Africa, is part of the Tugela-Vaal Water Project, and located on the Nuwejaarspruit, in the upper catchment area of the Vaal River...

 
Harrismith
Harrismith
Harrismith, named after Sir Harry Smith, is a large town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated on the N3 highway approximately midway between Johannesburg, about 300 km north-east, and Durban. The town is at the junction with the N5 highway, which continues west towards the...

 
Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Nuwejaar Spruit  1980 2,616,900 67.260 93 28°23′15"S 29°1′10"E
Stettynskloof Dam
Stettynskloof Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Holsloot River 1955 14,700 1.004 48 33°50′0"S 19°15′5"E
Stompdrift Dam
Stompdrift Dam
Stompdrift Dam is dam on the Olifants River near De Rust, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1965.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

De Rust
De Rust
De Rust is a small village at the gateway to the Klein Karoo.De Rust is located at the foot of the Swartberg Mountain range between Oudtshoorn and Beaufort West...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Olifants River 1965 55,300 6.208 49 33°30′45"S 22°35′8"E
Taung Dam
Taung Dam
Taung Dam is dam on the Harts River near Taung, North West, South Africa. It was established in 1993.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Taung North West
North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...

Harts River
Harts River
The Harts River is a northern tributary of the Vaal River, which in turn is the largest tributary of the Orange River ....

1993 58,900 4.650 44 27°31′30"S 24°51′54"E
Theewaterskloof Dam Villiersdorp
Villiersdorp
Villiersdorp is a small town located in the Western Cape province of South Africa in the Overberg region; population 15,678.Unlike most of the geographical region which specialises in wheat and canola farming, the Villiersdorp Valley is now agriculturally and micro-climatatically more similar to...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Riviersonderend River
Riviersonderend River
The Sonderend River, also known as the Riviersonderend , is a main tributary of the Breede River, located in the Western Cape, province South Africa....

 
1978 480,200 50.822 38 34°4′45"S 19°17′1"E
Trichardtsfontein Dam
Trichardtsfontein Dam
Trichardtsfontein Dam is dam on the Trichardtspruit near Trichardt, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1981.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Trichardt Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Trichardt Spruit 1981 15,200 2.459 26 26°29′53"S 29°14′1"E
Tsojana Dam
Tsojana Dam
Tsojana Dam is dam on the Tsojana River near Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape , South Africa. It was established in 1978.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 (former Transkei)
Cofimvaba Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Tsojana River 1978 12,340 2.360 23 31°53′0"S 27°38′1"E
Tweedraai Dam
Tweedraai Dam
Tweedraai Dam is dam on the Trichardtspruit near Trichardt, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1991.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Trichardt Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Trichardt Spruit 1991 16,000 2.370 21 26°25′45"S 29°13′0"E
Vaal Barrage
Vaal Barrage
Vaal Barrage is dam on the Vaal River near Vanderbijlpark, border Gauteng and Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1922.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Vanderbijlpark Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

Vaal River
Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source in the Drakensberg mountains in Mpumalanga, east of Johannesburg and about 30 km north of Ermelo and only about 240 km from the Indian Ocean. It then flows westwards to its conjunction...

1922 56,712 13.485 10 26°45′53"S 27°41′30"E
Vaal Dam
Vaal dam
The Vaal Dam in South Africa was constructed in 1938 and lies 77 km south of OR Tambo International Airport Formerly Jan Smuts Airport, then renamed Johannesburg International Airport in 1994, before being renamed yet again on 27th October 2006 as ORT. The lake behind the dam wall has a...

 
Deneysville
Deneysville
Deneysville is a small town on the banks of the Vaal Dam in the Free State province of South Africa. It has been dubbed the "Inland Water Mecca of South Africa"....

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

 
Vaal River
Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source in the Drakensberg mountains in Mpumalanga, east of Johannesburg and about 30 km north of Ermelo and only about 240 km from the Indian Ocean. It then flows westwards to its conjunction...

 
1939 2,603,400 322.755 63 26°53′1"S 28°7′20"E
Vaalharts Storage Weir
Vaalharts Storage Weir
Vaalharts Storage Weir is dam in South Africa. It was established in 1936.Vaalhartz Weir is located on the Vaal River approximately 100 km downstream of Bloemhof Dam and 13 km upstream of Warrenton....

 
Warrenton
Warrenton
-United States:*Warrenton, Georgia*Warrenton, Indiana *Warrenton, Missouri*Warrenton, North Carolina*Warrenton, Oregon*Warrenton, Texas*Warrenton, Virginia...

North West  Vaal River
Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source in the Drakensberg mountains in Mpumalanga, east of Johannesburg and about 30 km north of Ermelo and only about 240 km from the Indian Ocean. It then flows westwards to its conjunction...

1936 48,700 1.189 12 28°06′55"S 24°55′32"E
Vanderkloof Dam
Vanderkloof Dam
The Vanderkloof Dam is situated approximately 130km down stream from Gariep Dam and is fed by the Orange River, South Africa's largest river. Vanderkloof Dam is the second largest dam in South Africa, boasting the highest dam wall in the country at 108m...

 (P,K, Le Roux Dam)
Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Orange River
Orange River
The Orange River , Gariep River, Groote River or Senqu River is the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean...

 
1977 3,171,300 133.402 108 29°59′30"S 24°44′40"E
Vanwyksvlei Dam
Vanwyksvlei Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Vanwyksvlei Northern Cape
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of an international park shared with Botswana...

 
Vanwyksvlei  1884 143,081 49.934 15 30°22′1"S 21°49′1"E
Voëlvlei Dam
Voëlvlei Dam
Voëlvlei Dam is dam in South Africa. It was established in 1971.The history of Voelvlei Dam located near Gouda in the Western Cape of South Africa date back for a thousand years or more...

 
Gouda
Gouda
Gouda is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Gouda, which was granted city rights in 1272, is famous for its Gouda cheese, smoking pipes, and 15th-century city hall....

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Voëlvlei River  1971 158,600 15.730 10 33°20′15"S 19°2′1"E
Vondo Dam
Vondo Dam
Vondo Dam is dam on the Mutshindudi River near Sibasa, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1982.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Sibasa
Sibasa
Tshivhase is a town in Limpopo Province, South Africa and the former capital city of the Venda bantustan. When Venda was declared independent in 1979, the capital was moved to Thohoyandou. The corrupted name Sibasa appears a lot in South African media.In fact, the correct Venda word is Tshivhase...

Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

Mutshindudi River 1982 30,540 47 22°56′45"S 30°20′7"E
Wagendrift Dam
Wagendrift Dam
The Wagendrift Dam is a dam in the Bushman River, upstream of Estcourt, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It was established in 1963.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Estcourt KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Bushmans River  1963 55,900 5.084 41 29°2′15"S 29°51′1"E
Waterdown Dam
Waterdown Dam
Waterdown Dam is a dam on the Klipplaat River near Whittlesea, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1958.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Whittlesea Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Klipplaat River 1958 38,400 2.608 44 32°17′15"S 26°51′1"E
Welbedacht Dam
Welbedacht Dam
Welbedacht Dam is situated in South Africa, and was established in 1973.Bloemfontein is the sixth largest city in South Africa with a population of approximately 300 000. It is situated in the Modder River catchment which has insufficient water resources to meet the growing water requirements...

 
Wepener
Wepener
Wepener is a village in the Free State, South Africa, located on the border with Lesotho. The town is named after Louw Wepener, the leader of the Boers in their war with the Basotho chief Moshoeshoe I in 1865. It was founded in 1867 on the banks of Jammersbergspruit, a tributary of the Caledon...

Free State
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 
Caledon River
Caledon River
The Caledon River is located in south-east Africa, rising in the Drakensberg Mountains in Lesotho. Origin in the former bantustan of QwaQwa, near the border with Lesotho, southwest of Witsieshoek. It then flows south-west, marking the border with South Africa and Lesotho before entering South...

 
1973 10,200 10.185 32 29°54′30"S 26°51′1"E
Wemmershoek Dam
Wemmershoek Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Franschhoek Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 
Wemmers River  1957 58,700 2.960 53 33°50′1"S 19°5′20"E
Westoe Dam
Westoe Dam
Westoe Dam is dam on the Usutu River near Amsterdam, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1968.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Mpumalanga
Amsterdam is a small sheep farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Other than large sheep farms, there are large plantations of gum, pine and wattle trees in the area. The town also lies close to the border with Swaziland.- History :...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Usutu River 1968 61,900 7.333 26 26°30′15"S 30°37′5"E
Witbank Dam
Witbank Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Witbank
Witbank
Witbank , also known as eMalahleni is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the eMalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for White Ridge and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wagon transport drivers rested...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Olifants River  1971 104,000 12.112 44 25°53′30"S 29°19′1"E
Witklip Dam
Witklip Dam
Witklip Dam is dam on the Sand River near Sabie, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was established in 1969.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Sabie
Sabie
Sabie is a forestry town situated on the banks of the Sabie River in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Once the Sabie River was teeming with crocodiles and the local Shangaan people dubbed it uluSaba or ...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

Sand River
Sand River (South Africa)
The Sand River, in South Africa in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga, provinces. Is 80 kilometers which is very short and shallow compared to the standard river lengths in Africa. It derives its name from the fact that in the drought season the sandy banks starts to show on both sides...

1969 12,970 1.875 21 25°14′10"S 30°54′1"E
Wolwedans Dam
Wolwedans Dam
Wolwedans Dam is a dam in South Africa on the Great Brak River near Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1990. The dam is the main source of water for the municipality of Mossel Bay as well as the gas-to-liquids refinery PetroSA....

Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 130,000 people on the Southern Cape of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province...

Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

Great Brak River
Groot Brak River (Western Cape)
Groot Brak River , The mouth of the Great Brak River lies at the town of Great Brak River which falls under the Mossel Bay municipality . The nearest large towns are Mossel Bay, 24km to the west, and George, 34 km to the east by road...

1990 25,530 1.100 70 34°0′49"S 22°13′0"E
Woodstock Dam
Woodstock Dam
Woodstock Dam is located on the upper reaches of the Tugela, KwaZulu-Natal, province South Africa and is the main source of water for the Thukela-Vaal Transfer Scheme....

 
Bergville KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 
Tugela River
Tugela River
The Tugela River is the largest river in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The river originates in the Drakensberg Mountains, Mont-aux-Sources, and plunges 947 metres down the Tugela Falls...

 
1983 373,300 29.129 49 28°45′30"S 29°14′1"E
Wriggleswade Dam
Wriggleswade Dam
Wriggleswade Dam is dam on the Kubusi River near Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1991.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

Stutterheim
Stutterheim
Stutterheim is a town with a population of 46,730 in South Africa, situated in the Border region of the Eastern Cape province.Stutterheim has a rich history that makes for fascinating reading...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

Kubusi River 1991 93,200 10.000 35 32°34′1"S 27°35′0"E
Xonxa Dam
Xonxa Dam
Xonxa Dam, is a dam situated in the White Kei River in Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1974. The dam has a capacity of , and the wall is high.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Queenstown
Queenstown, Eastern Cape
Queenstown, named after Queen Victoria, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly half way in between the towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom. It is currently the commercial, administrative, and educational centre of the prosperous surrounding farming district...

Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

 
White Kei River  1974 115,900 12.881 49 31°51′0"S 27°11′13"E
Lonehill Dam  Sandton Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

 
Lonehiil Spruit  ~1960
Zaaihoek Dam
Zaaihoek Dam
- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...

 
Wakkerstroom
Wakkerstroom
Wakkerstroom, , is the second oldest town in Mpumalanga province in South Africa. It was established in 1859 and its name is an Afrikaans translation of the Zulu name for the river that flows near the town, uThaka, ...

Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 
Slang River  1988 184,600 12.446 46 27°26′1"S 30°4′30"E

  • Nett Nett or working capacity
  • Gross Gross or maximum capacity
  • Ingula The Bedford and Bramhoek dams form part of the Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme
    Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme
    The Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme is under construction by Eskom in the escarpment of the Little Drakensberg range straddling the border of the Free State and KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The Scheme will consists of an upper and a lower dam 4.6 km apart and connected by tunnels...

  • Drankensberg The Driekloof and Kilburn dams form part of the Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme
    Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme
    Construction on the Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme started in 1974 and was completed by 1981.Four dams are involved in the scheme; the Driekloof Dam , the Kilburn Dam, the Woodstock Dam and the Driel Barrage. Electricity generation equipment is located between Driekloof Dam and Kilburn Dam...

  • Palmiet The Kogelberg and Rockview dams form part of the Palmiet Pumped Storage Scheme
    Palmiet Pumped Storage Scheme
    The Palmiet Pumped Storage Scheme consists of two 200MW turbine units located 2km upstream of the Kogelberg Dam wall on the Palmiet River near Cape Town, South Africa. The pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant is capable of responding to a surge in peak power demand in minutes...


See also

  • Water supply and sanitation in South Africa
    Water supply and sanitation in South Africa
    Water supply and sanitation in South Africa is characterized by both achievements and challenges. After the end of Apartheid South Africa's newly elected government inherited huge services backlogs with respect to access to water supply and sanitation. About 15 million people were without safe...

  • List of lakes in South Africa
  • List of rivers in South Africa
  • List of reservoirs and dams
  • List of waterfalls of South Africa
  • Drought
    Drought
    A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of the affected region...

  • Flood
    Flood
    A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water...

  • List of waterways
  • Transvasement
  • Water Management Areas
    Water Management Areas
    Water Management Areas are parts of South Africa that are managed by the Water Boards.The list should be complete, and in accordance with the definitions of the Department of Water Affairs...

    , also known as WMA's.

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