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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.
Randfontein Local Municipality was a local municipality in West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, in South Africa. After municipal elections on 3 August 2016, it was merged with the Westonaria Local Municipality to form the larger Rand West City Local Municipality .
This is a list of cities and towns in Gauteng Province, South Africa.Most towns are no longer separate municipalities, their local governments having been merged into larger structures.
It was established after the August 2016 local elections by merging the Randfontein and Westonaria local municipalities. [2] It is a division of the West Rand District Municipality . Politics
Robinson v Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Co Ltd [1] is an important case in South African law. It was heard in the Appellate Division from 13 to 20 December 1920, with judgment handed down on 19 February 1921. Innes CJ, Solomon JA, CG Maasdorp JA, Juta JA and Bristowe AJA presided.
In the southern half of Gauteng, the Witwatersrand area is an older term describing a 120 km wide oblong-shaped conurbation from Randfontein in the West to Nigel in the East, named after the Witwatersrand, a geologically and economically important series of low ridges and their associated plateau that greater Johannesburg developed on.
Pages in category "People from Randfontein" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Lennox Brown;
The R28 is a provincial route in Gauteng, South Africa that connects Krugersdorp with Vereeniging via Randfontein. [1] The R28 used to connect with Pretoria , but that section of the road is now part of the N14 .