Tele Bridge

{{Short description|Bridge and Border Post Over the Telle River Between South Africa And Lesotho}}

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Telle Bridge,[https://repository.nwu.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10394/10625/Pages%20from%20Amptelike%20Plekname%20in%20die%20Republiek%20van%20Suid-Afrika%20en%20Suidwes-Afrika%20-%20Lys%20van%20plekname.pdf.txt;jsessionid=BC139E6F17914BF7E76FD41AB24CA061?sequence=45 LYS VAN PLEKNAME-LIST OF PLACE NAMES] Repository.nwu.ac.za {{in lang|af}} {{in lang|en}} also spelled as Tele Bridge, is a border post located between South Africa and Lesotho.

The actual steel motorbridge spans the Telle River, a tributary of the Orange River that flows across half of South Africa.

The anti-apartheid South African journalist and editor of the Daily Dispatch, Donald Woods entered Lesotho through the Telle Bridge as he was fleeing from South Africa on New Year's Eve, 1977.

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South AfricaLesotho
RegionEastern CapeQuthing
Nearest townSterkspruitQuthing
RoadR393R393
GPS Coordinates{{coord
30.4303|27.5658|display=inline|type:landmark_scale:5000|name=Telle Bridge border crossing}}{{coord
30.43256|27.56805|display=inline|type:landmark_scale:5000|name=Telle Bridge border crossing}}
Telephone number+27 (0)51 611 1710
Fax number+27 (0)51 633 1099
Postal address
Business hours Travellers06:00 – 22:0006:00 – 22:00
Business hours General07:30 – 16:15
[http://www.home-affairs.gov.za/index.php/immigration-services/south-african-ports-of-entry Webpage – South African Ports of Entry] [[Department of Home Affairs (South Africa)|Department of Home Affairs

of South Africa]]

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