<Li> A carefully husbanded sports field on which the game of Rugby is played in the middle of cities such as Cape Town or Johannesburg is referred to as a "rugbyveld" in the Afrikaans language . </Li> <Li> The word "veld" also carries military connotations . The word "field" in English has a strong association with "war", as evidenced by the expression "the first foe in the field" and the lines of the ballad' Lord Marlborough' (see John Churchill): "You generals all and champions bold, that takes delight in field, that knocks down churches and castle walls but now to death must yield". The same relationship is paralleled in Afrikaans . Just as the English Army has its Field Marshals, the Boer armies had their Veldkornets and Veldkommandos . </Li> <P> Much of the interior of Southern Africa consists of a high plateau, the higher portions 1,500--2,100 m (4,900--6,900 ft) of which are known as the Highveld, starting at the Drakensberg escarpment, 220 km (140 mi) to the east of Johannesburg and sloping gradually downwards to the west and south west, as well as to the north, through the Bushveld towards the Limpopo river . These higher, cooler areas (generally more than 1,500 metres or 4,900 feet above sea level) are characterised by flat or gently undulating terrain, vast grasslands and a modified tropical or subtropical climate . To the east, the Highveld's border is marked by the Great Escarpment, or the Mpumalanga Drakensberg, but in the other directions the boundary is not obvious and often arbitrary . The blesbok and quagga were among the large animals that once roamed on the highveld in great numbers . Nowadays there still is a sizeable population of springbok in some areas, though much of the area is devoted to commercial farming and South Africa's largest conurbation (Gauteng Province). </P> <P> The lowlands, below about 500 m (1,640 ft) altitude, along South Africa's northern border with Botswana and Zimbabwe, where a 180 - million - year - old failed rift valley cuts into Southern Africa's central plateau and locally obliterates the Great Escarpment is known as the Lowveld . The Limpopo and Save rivers run from the central African highlands via the Lowveld into the Indian Ocean to the east . The Limpopo Lowveld extends southwards, east of the Drakensberg escarpment through Mpumalanga Province and ultimately into eastern Swaziland . This southern limb of the Lowveld is bounded by South Africa's border with Mozambique to the east and the north - eastern part of the Drakensberg to the west . This region is generally hotter and less intensely cultivated than the Highveld . </P>

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