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Historically, the river played an important role in the South African diamond rush, with the first diamonds in the country being discovered in alluvial deposits on the Orange. Today, several commercial diamond mines operate along the final stretch of the Orange River and around its mouth.
The older mining rights held by the Pomona Mining Company were both a blessing and a curse. The German Government of the time started protecting the area only six months after the diamond discoveries, declaring the Sperrgebiet (forbidden zone), a gigantic strip of land 100 km wide, and ranging from 45 km north of Lüderitz all the way to the Orange River. [2]
Kimberley Regiment Cap Badge circa 1899. The regiment's origins lie in the early, lawless, diamond rush days in Kimberley in the 1870s. To bring law and order to the region, which was then known as Griqualand West, the government encouraged the formation of part-time volunteer forces.
Oranjemund (German for "Mouth of Orange") is a diamond mining town in the ǁKaras Region of the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bank of the Orange River mouth at the border with South Africa. It had a population of 7,736 people in 2023.
Windthorst and Harrold are featured prominently in the 2023 Red River Diamond Dozen volleyball team, taking home all four superlative awards.
The first Free State tournament on record was played at Ramblers in 1905, [3] and was called the Orange River Colony Tennis Championships. [4] The championships were part of the Sugar Circuit (f.1962) [5] of tennis tournaments from the 1960s to 1980s. [6] In 1980 the tournament was ended due to the withdraw of sponsorship by South African Sugar ...
The home is just north of the fifth green at TPC River Highlands, which is hosting the tournament one week after the U.S. Open. Cromwell Police started getting 911 calls around 4:30 p.m. about a ...
Cecil Rhodes, the founder of the British South Africa Company, got his start by renting water pumps to miners during the diamond rush that started in 1869, [15] [16] when an 83.5 carat diamond called the 'Star of South Africa' was found at Hopetown near the Orange River in South Africa.