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The Main Reef Road (today part of the R29) linked Brakpan to all the other mining towns in the Witwatersrand. Brakpan was a suburb of Benoni from 1914–1919, when it was granted municipal status. [2]: 286 The Brakpan miners were involved in the miners' strike of 1922. The town has gradually lost its importance as a gold mining area as the ...
The Province of the Transvaal (Afrikaans: Provinsie van Transvaal), commonly referred to as the Transvaal (/ ˈ t r ɑː n s v ɑː l, ˈ t r æ n s-/; Afrikaans: [ˈtransfɑːl]), was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994, when a new constitution subdivided it following the end of apartheid.
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.
The R29 is a provincial route in South Africa that connects Johannesburg with Leandra and Kinross via Germiston, Boksburg, Benoni and Springs.For much of its route it is named Main Reef Road. [1]
Willie Havenga (Benoni United) scores the first ever Professional goal in South Africa Rocco Smith (Benoni United) wins the first ever player of the Year Award. In 1963 Benoni United merges with Brakpan United and Springs United to form East Rand United the merger is short lived and Benoni United exits the merger when ERU is relegated in 1966 ...
It intersects with the R29 in Benoni central and joins Range View Road southwards by way of a right turn at Mackenzie Park. Soon after, it becomes Heidelberg Road, bypassing Brakpan (co-signed with the M56 metropolitan route for a few metres), and crosses the N17 toll highway at Dalpark, next to where Carnival City is located.
He started importing medicinal and fancy goods and opened a wholesale chemist shop in Boksburg followed by a manufacturing plant in Standerton and as the needs of the population grew he opened more chemist shops in Van Rhyn, Springs, Benoni, Brakpan and Standerton. A distinction to his chain of shops was the monopoly he had for Zeiss Cameras.
Kempton Park is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng province, South Africa.It is part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.It is situated south of Thembisa, one of the largest townships in South Africa, which is also part of Ekurhuleni.