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The first activity which drew people to the area was the British coal mining in 1888 and the large coal powered power station also built by the British. A tram line to Johannesburg was built at this time to service the power station. The Main Reef Road (today part of the R29) linked Brakpan to all the other mining towns in the Witwatersrand ...
Built as whale catcher by A/S Jarlsø Verft, Tønsberg for A/S Hektor (Nils Bugge), Tønsberg in 1929 and was sold to Hektoria Ltd (Nils Bugge, Tønsberg), Cape Town, South Africa in 1932. Requisitioned by the South African Navy in 1940 and equipped for mine sweeper service, renamed HMSAS Soetvlei .
The original 7 km 2 farm on which the city of Springs was later to be built, The Springs, was surveyed in 1883. Coal was discovered in the area in 1887 and three years later in 1890–1891, the Transvaal Republic 's first railway, the Randtram Line, was built by the Netherlands-South African Railway Company (NZASM) to carry coal from the East ...
In June 1925, a licence was issued for a 60 MW power plant that would be built and operated in Witbank by VFTPC but owned by Escom. Water would be supplied by a new dam across the Groot Olifants River and a 123kV transmission line to Brakpan.
At the time he built the bar, he didn't realise that his hostelry would eventually be situated in a prime position on the shores of "Montagu's Folly," the Boksburg Lake, which became the "Beautiful Pleasure Resort of the Rand." From the very beginning, Nobby's Bar was the centre of social life to the Boksburg pioneers.
Benoni is situated towards the centre of the East Rand and lies on the urban fringe where the urban area dissolves into the smallholdings and farmland to the north. It borders on Kempton Park to the north-west, Boksburg to the west, Brakpan to the south and Daveyton to the east.
Season six of The Food That Built America will premiere on the History Channel on Sunday, February 23 at 9 pm EST. Plus, you can stream the series on the Roku Channel, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video ...
JCI was also involved with numerous mining ventures – New State Mines at Brakpan, Modder Deep Mines at Benoni, Van Dyk Mines at Benoni. In the 1960s Randfontein was virtually closed down, and mining was developed at Western Areas on the other side of the shallow valley, but in the 1970s new deposits were discovered to the south of Randfontein ...