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Memel, Free State
Memel is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa, nestled close to the provincial boundaries of both kwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, and is situated some 1,735 metres above sea level.
==Etymology==
Perhaps named after the port city of Memel in former East Prussia by a settler with historical links to the Baltic, but there is no direct evidence of this. Today this Baltic city is called Klaipėda in Lithuania. In the Latvian Curonian language of the Baltic states, Memel means mute, silent (memelis, mimelis, mēms) and this same name was adopted by speakers of German who later colonized the area. Silence certainly remains one of Memel's finest attributes. There is also little evidence to support the alternate theory that Memel means ''surrounded by water'', although that is an equally apt description.
The recent changes have also brought about a name-change, Memel-Zamani now being the correct name in recognition of the Zamani township - a settlement adjoining Memel to the north in which several thousand Africans reside. During the apartheid era Zamani was separated from Memel by a golf course which acted as a buffer between the two, now however the golf course no longer exists, houses have been built on it and the buffer zone has disappeared. The two townships are now one.
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