Colonial history of Rustenburg
… at 800, Potchefstroom’s at 2000, and the entire Transvaal Republic at 18 000. Van Staden, until August 1853 acting … Stewart, in his book The Hollander Afrikaners and their Republic in South Africa , published in Amsterdam in 1854, … in 1855, destined to become the capital of the Transvaal Republic, and eventually of the Republic of South Africa – …