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De Wet served in the First Boer War of 1880–81 as a field cornet, [4] [6] taking part in the Battle of Majuba Hill, in which the Boers achieved a victory over a British force under the command of Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley.
Roodepoort (locally / ˈ r ʊər d ə p ʊər t / ROOR-də-poort) [2] is a city in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Formerly an independent municipality , Roodepoort became part of the Johannesburg municipality in the late 1990s, along with Randburg and Sandton .
1.2 District and local municipalities. 2 Elections. 3 Legislation. ... City of Johannesburg (Johannesburg – Soweto – Roodepoort – Lenasia – Randburg ...
Krugersdorp is the site of a December 1880 gathering at which more than 6,000 men vowed to fight for the Transvaal's independence. [2] Founded in 1887 by Marthinus Pretorius after the discovery of gold on his farm, Paardekraal , thereafter the mining industry played an important role in the development of the city.
Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km (25 mi) west of Johannesburg.With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company.
Roodeplaat Dam is a concrete arch dam situated in South Africa on the Pienaars River (also known along parts of its length as the Moretele River and Moreleta Spruit [1]), a tributary of the Crocodile River, which flows northwards into the Limpopo River.
[1] [2] This was in the weeks leading up to the South West Africa campaign during the First World War, and many suspected a hostile German monoplane on a possible spy or bombing mission. However, these possibilities were discounted and the provenance of the plane remained unknown. [ 3 ]
UTC+2 : Postal code (street) 1829. PO box: 1821. Vlakfontein is a small settlement in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. During the Second Boer War it was the ...