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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 ...
History [ edit ] The municipality was established in 2000, the result of a merger between the Eastern Gauteng Services Council, the Khayalami Metropolitan Council, and the previous municipalities of Alberton, Benoni, Boksburg, Brakpan, Edenvale/Lethabong, Germiston, Kempton Park/Tembisa, Nigel and Springs. [ 6 ]
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 club would merge with Brakpan United and Springs United to form East Rand United in 1963 but the merger did not last long and when the club decided to return to the whites only NFL a breakaway group led by Mickey Bookholoane began talks to form a new Benoni United which would be nicknamed the Rabbits to differentiate it from the original ...
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]
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.
East Rand Stereo operates from the headquarters in Springs, following some satellite studios that had been opened in Brakpan, Benoni and Boksburg. The video production company Black Light Productions was launched in Dersley, a tranquil suburb of Springs. They are specialists and experts in corporate video and video marketing. Since, Black Light ...
R23 in Benoni M44 in Benoni N12 in Benoni R29 in Benoni M56 in Brakpan M46 in Brakpan R554 in Brakpan N17 in Brakpan M63 in Dunnottar: South-east end: R51 near Dunnottar: Location; Country: South Africa: Highway system; Numbered routes of South Africa