Kuruman
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'''Kuruman''' is a town in [[Northern Cape]] province of [[South Africa]], famous for its scenic beauty and the ''Oog'' (Eye), a geological feature bringing water from deep underground to the surface in the [[Kalahari Desert]].
The Kuruman River (which is dry except for [[flash flood]]s after heavy rain (see [[wadi]])), is named after it.
Kuruman was a [[London Missionary Society|LMS]] mission station founded by [[Robert Moffat]] and the place where [[David Livingstone]] arrived for his first position as a missionary in 1841.
The [[Kalahari Meerkat Project]], made famous by the television series [[Meerkat Manor]], is located nearby.
Kuruman is located along the border that bounds the northern Cape from the [[North West Province]] and is a local town for most communities surrounding the town, including those that live in the North West Province.
Kuruman has relatively mild weather patterns compared to other Northern Cape towns, such as [[Upington]] and [[Springbok]], and is surrounded by more vegetation as compared to the Upington and Springbok, which are surrounded by desertic environments.
The local people in Kuruman mainly speak [[Tswana]] and [[Afrikaans]]. The demographics of Kuruman are composed of mainly [[African]] people, [[Coloured]] and Afrikaans people respectively.
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