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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.
The Paardekraal Monument is situated in Krugersdorp, South Africa.The monument commemorates the original site of vow made by Transvaal Boers on 13 December 1880, prior to the armed rebellion known as First Boer War, when they vowed to regain their independence from the British Empire.
At an intersection at Cradlestone Mall in Krugersdorp, it meets the R28 that heads south-west to the town centre and the M47 Hendrik Potgieter Road that heads south-east to Roodepoort. The N14 turns north-east at this junction, becoming a dual carriageway freeway with 2 lanes in each direction, crossing the Crocodile River , passing through ...
The idea to construct the stadium was born already in 2003, when the Mogale City Municipality first announced a plan to renovate the Bob van Reenen Stadium in Krugersdorp. [1] During the past years, the Kaizer Chiefs F.C. had used no less than 9 stadiums in Johannesburg as their home venue, and they now wanted to settle down with a new ...
The town was established in 1890 to serve the new mine and was administered by Krugersdorp until it became a municipality in 1929. [ 2 ] : 292 Apart from having the largest stamp mill in the world, Randfontein, like many of the other outlying areas of Johannesburg, is essentially a rural collection of farms and small holdings in a particularly ...
Krugersdorp Commando or Kommando was a light infantry regiment from Krugersdorp district of the South African Army. It was active as a part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South African Territorial Reserve .
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [14] [15] [16] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
The 150 strong Boers, mainly Krugersdorp Commando under General Sarel Oosthuizen (known as "Rooibul", the Red Bull of Krugersdorp, because of his red beard) ambushed British troops of the 1st Gordon Highlanders and the King's Shropshire Light Infantry under Major general Horace Smith-Dorrien on Oosthuizen's own farm.