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17. South African Dried fruit at Upington is a ◊ Below: Dried Fruit
most interesting place to visit. This facility has been ◊ Bottom: Verneukpan displays
packing dried fruit from this rich agricultural region for
many years, which then goes to South African tables,
bakeries and consumer groups as well as being ex-
ported around the globe. Although it is in essence a
mere factory when viewed from outside, it sports laser
“guns” that pick out and shoot malformed raisins and
foreign objects out of the main stream of good raisins
and state-of-the-art packaging machines and all quality
systems. Even civil engineering is represented in the
form of providing a facility that can withstand the acid
environment of fruit and handle the highly aggressive
wastewater from the fruit washing area.

28°46’35.64” S, 20°36’50.08” E

18. Verneukpan and Mier are two places far Donald Campbell came in 1929 but failed in his attempt
away from the crowds. But there were times when on Verneukpan.
thousands of people have come and will come again
to observe attempts to break the world land-speed The British are coming here again in 2015 and 2016
records on the Verneukpan and the Hakskeenpan. Sir and this time to Hakskeenpan with their Bloodhound

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