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In the post-1994 renaming of regions and towns in South Africa the old Eastern Transvaal was called "Mpumalanga" a melodious word meaning "land of the rising sun" to its Siswati and Zulu-speaking residents.

It is the Kruger National Park that has secured Mpumalanga's position on the international tourist map as one of the top places in the country to visit. The game park covers an area of 20 000 square kilometers and is as big as Wales or Massachusetts. While the Kruger National Park and the dozens of game parks and bushveld hideaways on its periphery dominate Mpumalanga, this is much more than a holiday province.

Buried under the grassy plains is the eighth largest coal deposit in the world ensuring that it will remain one of the country's hardest working redions for decades to come. Here, in the powerhouse of South Africa, coal is converted to electricity, gas liquid fules, chemicals and raw materials for dozens of industrial processes. The estimated 60 billion tons of coal that lie just beneath the Earth's surface has given rise to many busy industrial towns like Witbank, Middelburg, and Ermelo. While these towns are not particularly picturesque, the mining industry has secured their long-term economic survival.

Near Ermelo is the beginning of the country's electricity grid system run by Eskom where thousands of kilometers of transmission line feed electricity across the breadth of South Africa from a series of massive generating stations. Mpumalanga also has plenty of water and supports a variety of crops and livestock. Certainly this province has much to boast of and alongside its neighbour Gauteng, has the potential to be one of the wealthiest regions of the country.