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Viljoensdrif
Viljoensdrif is a coal-mining village 8 km south of Vereeniging and part of the Fezile Dabi District Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa.
It takes its name from ford ( Afrikaans drif) which was closed to ox-wagons by President Paul Kruger in 1895 to prevent goods reaching the Witwatersrand, thus forcing people to use the Netherlands-South African Railway Company P(NZASM)'sretoria- Delagoa Bay railroad. Named after the owner of the place, J H Viljoen, who established a ferry in 1857.