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From there, the R28 heads south-west as Paardekraal Drive to pass by the Paardekraal Monument and intersect with the R24 road from Roodepoort in Krugersdorp Central. After the R24 junction, the R28 continues by way of a right turn at Main Reef Road, which is the next junction after the railway crossing.
Krugersdorp (Afrikaans for Kruger's Town) is a mining city in the West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa founded in 1887 [2] by Marthinus Pretorius and Abner Cohen. [3] Following the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand , a need arose for a major town in the west of the reef.
Frontpage of "Die Afrikaanse Patriot" (1876), a newspaper in an early form of the Afrikaans language. This is a list of newspapers in South Africa.. In 2017, there were 22 daily and 25 weekly major urban newspapers in South Africa, mostly published in English or Afrikaans. [1]
It was established to protect the caves, old gold mines, fossil sites, trout farm and a game reserve in the area. The caves in the area, known as the Sterkfontein caves have an extensive number of fossils and dolomite caverns.
Aluminium dross. Dross is a mass of solid impurities floating on a molten metal or dispersed in the metal, such as in wrought iron. It forms on the surface of low-melting-point metals such as tin, lead, zinc or aluminium or alloys by oxidation of the metal.
Gerald Dros (born 2 April 1973) is a South African cricketer. He has represented both Ireland (from 1999 to 2004 as an overseas player) and South Africa A (from 2000 to 2002) during his cricketing career. His career stretches back to 1993 when he first joined the Northern Transvaal cricket team. He first represented Northern Transvaal in the ...
A map of Gauteng, showing the West Rand District Municipality. The West Rand [1] is the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation.
Krugersdorp Commando along with all other Commando units was disbanded in the 1990s after a decision by South African President Thabo Mbeki to disband all existing Commando Units. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Commando system was phased out between 2003 and 2008 "because of the role it played in the apartheid era", according to the Minister of Safety and ...