Tele Bridge

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Telle Bridge,^[1] 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.

	South Africa	Lesotho
Region	Eastern Cape	Quthing
Nearest town	Sterkspruit	Quthing
Road	R393	R393
GPS Coordinates	30°25′49″S 27°33′57″E / 30.4303°S 27.5658°E / -30.4303; 27.5658 (Telle Bridge border crossing)	30°25′57″S 27°34′05″E / 30.43256°S 27.56805°E / -30.43256; 27.56805 (Telle Bridge border crossing)
Telephone number	+27 (0)51 611 1710
Fax number	+27 (0)51 633 1099
Postal address
Business hours Travellers	06:00 – 22:00	06:00 – 22:00
Business hours General	07:30 – 16:15

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References

^ LYS VAN PLEKNAME-LIST OF PLACE NAMES Repository.nwu.ac.za (in Afrikaans) (in English)
^ Webpage – South African Ports of Entry Department of Home Affairs of South Africa

[1] LYS VAN PLEKNAME-LIST OF PLACE NAMES Repository.nwu.ac.za (in Afrikaans) (in English)

[2] Webpage – South African Ports of Entry Department of Home Affairs of South Africa

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