Carletonville was named after Guy Carleton Jones, one of the mining magnates of the area who brought the well-known Blyvooruitzicht Mine (1937), West…
Krugersdorp, the capital of the Western Gauteng region, and often referred to as the treasure chest of the West, was established on a portion of the farm…
The Magaliesberg Mountain Range stretches in an arc from just west of Rustenburg, in the North West Province to just east of Pretoria, a 125-km ribbon of…
Muldersdrift, only 10 km from Krugersdorp, is a cosy village nestling in the comforting arms of the Magaliesberg mountain range.
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In 1889, the mining financier, JB Robinson, bought the farm Randfontein, started the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company and watched as a town was…
In 1884, the Struben brothers, Fred and Harry, found some gold on the farm Wilgespruit (“Willow Creek”) and were granted the right to mine the area.…
Westonaria, proclaimed in 1938, developed alongside the Libanon and Venterspost Gold Mines. The town’s history speaks of struggle and endurance as mineshaft…
Atteridgeville started life as a township to house the black population who worked in the Pretoria area. The Group Areas Act did not allow the races to live…
Centurion is a rapidly growing suburban and business development south of Pretoria and the choice of residence for many people who work in Johannesburg.…
The name literally means “Hamman’s stockade” and owes its name to a local nineteenth century farmer called Hamman, who built a stockade here to protect his…
