# Groblersdal

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**Groblersdal** is a farming town situated 32 km north of the 178 million m³ [Loskop Dam](/source/Loskop_Dam) in the [Sekhukhune District](/source/Sekhukhune_District_Municipality) of [Limpopo](/source/Limpopo).

The town is [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)'s second largest irrigation settlement. The main crops in this man-made [floodplain](/source/Floodplain) are [cotton](/source/Cotton), [tobacco](/source/Tobacco), [citrus fruit](/source/Citrus_fruit), [table grapes](/source/Grape), [maize](/source/Maize), [wheat](/source/Wheat), [vegetables](/source/Vegetable), [sunflower seeds](/source/Sunflower), [peanuts](/source/Peanut), [lucerne](/source/Alfalfa) and [peaches](/source/Peach), although not in order of importance as some previously leading crops e.g. tobacco, have made way for others such as grapes.

Groblersdal was laid out on the farm "Klipbank" taking advantage of the Loskop Dam, and named after the original owner WJ Grobler.

Notable people from Groblersdal include Roma Blecher, noted philanthropist and Shakespeare scholar, and South African Test bowler [Duanne Olivier](/source/Duanne_Olivier) (born 1992).

## See also

- [Jaco van der Westhuyzen](/source/Jaco_van_der_Westhuyzen)

## External links

- [Sekhukhune District Municipality](http://www.sekhukhune.gov.za/)

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