Vryburg (Afrikaans for free fort) is a large agricultural town with a population of 48,200 situated in the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality of the North West Province of South Africa. It is the seat and the industrial and agricultural heartland of the district of the Bophirima region.
It is situated halfway between Kimberley (the capital of the Northern Cape Province) and Mahikeng (the capital of the North West Province). It is on Cecil Rhodes’s great northern railroad, which ran from Cape Town through the Kimberley diamond fields, Vryburg, Mafikeng, and northwards beyond Victoria Falls. It is also on the N14 National Road which runs from Gauteng Province in a southwesterly direction through Vryburg, Kuruman and Upington to the mining town of Springbok in the North-western Cape. This road also connects Gauteng Province with Namibia.
The township Huhudi (Tswana for "running water") is situated just south of the town. The Tiger Kloof Native Institute was set up south of the town by the London Missionary Society in 1904. A cornerstone for the building of the institute was laid in 1905 by the Earl of Selborne. The stone church on the premises is a national monument.
He Said
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I never said those words
I'm going up that mountain now
Let earth go away, let cold wind blow
Because I cannot save them now
And this is my regret
That's coming down all over me
It drinks to drown in words in seas
But it only makes them rule again
[1st version chorus]: Go away, go away, go away I said
Go away, go away, go away I'm trying to sleep
Go away, go away, go away I said
[2nd version chorus]: I wish your mountains
I wish your mountains were gone
I wish you'd go, I wish you'd go
I used to think that there were other worlds
But I'm the only one that he said
So they are only in my head again...only
I have these words that are so hard
that I am working all the day
In everything I come to say
I build a shadow of him
He is afraid again
He says he is afraid again
It's coming down in tears of rain
And it will make them rule again
I spend my life in the worries he said
[1st version chorus]