Sheepmoor is a town in

Gert Sibande District Municipality Gert Sibande (until 2004 known as the Eastvaal District Municipality) is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Ermelo. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu (2001 Census). The dis ...

in the

Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...

province of

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. left, Spitskop (1,827 m) is the highest point of a sandstone escarpment south of Sheepmoor The small village of Sheepmoor is known for the case of

Sandra Laing Sandra Laing (born 26 November 1955) is a South African woman who was classified as Coloured by authorities during the apartheid era, due to her skin colour and hair texture, although she was the child of at least three generations of ancestor ...

, who in 1966 was reclassified from white to coloured by the apartheid government. The ''

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'' newspaper reported that parents of pupils at Sheepmoor school were threatening to withdraw their children if she was admitted to the school.

References

Populated places in the Msukaligwa Local Municipality {{Mpumalanga-geo-stub