Middleveldn.

1878 A. Aylward Transvaal of To-day 25 The nearer and more recently settled district called the ‘Middleveld’ of the Orange Free State.

1902 C. Warren Diary 17 July in On Veldt in Seventies (1902) 225 We arrived at a station in the Middle Veldt, forty miles from Worcester, 2800 feet above it.

1929 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Low-Veld 1 The Transvaal Province of the Union of South Africa is divided into three zones of altitude known respectively as High, Middle, and Low Veld... It is not unusual to hear an altitude of three thousand feet referred to as ‘Low-Veld’.

1931 Discovery Aug. 259/2 There are two cotton breeding stations in the Transvaal; one at Rustenberg, where problems connected with the improvement of cottons for middle-veld areas are dealt with.

1955 J. H. Wellington S. Afr. I. i. iii. 72 These two regions..have important points of dissimilarity, the chief of which are the greater altitude and humidity of the highveld and the greater areas of pre-Karoo surfaces in the middleveld.

1972 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 21 Apr. 11 Normal dryland conditions in the Rhodesian middleveld.

1988 Fair Lady (Cape Town) Mar. 96 Divided neatly into four strips—the highveld, middleveld, lowveld and Lubombo range—the scenery in Swaziland appears to do something different around every corner.