highveld

/ -ˌvɛlt, ˈhaɪˌfɛlt /

noun

1. the high-altitude grassland region of E South Africa

Example Sentences

Many years ago, you directed another adaptation of Büchner’s play: “Woyzeck on the Highveld,” a work of puppet theater set during the first years of apartheid.

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Environmental and community groups sued the government in June for failing to tackle high pollution in the Highveld Priority Area.

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Australia begin the post-Folau era with a Rugby Championship clash against the Springboks on the South African Highveld, where the ball moves quicker, and flies further, through the air.

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The Highveld Priority Area, south of Johannesburg and overlapping three provincial boundaries, was declared a climate priority area in 2007 due to poorer-than-average air quality and a high concentration of pollutants because of the type of industries operating there.

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The case filed in the Pretoria High Court on Friday claims the government has violated the constitutional right to a healthy environment for people living and working in the densely-polluted Highveld Priority Area.

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