Mine

Lonmin‘s Marikana platinum mine is located near Brits in the Marikana district, approximately 40km east of Rustenburg in...

The Town of Dannhauser was named after Renier Dannhauser, a German settler, who purchased the Farm: 'Palmietfontein', fr...

This 4 110 megawatt station, constructed at a cost of R 11.9 Billion, is one of the five biggest power stations in the W...

Kleinzee (sometimes referred to as Kleinsee) was a diamond mining town, tourists visited as part of the diamond route.

Having been established in 1912, this is the oldest gold mining Town in the District. The Town was a group of Farms with...

Abiekwakop is a Hillock 50 km North of Brandvlei, in the Kenhardt District. A Khoikhoi name derived for the bushes ...

Elandslaagte was a mission station of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and was probably founded in about 1860....

Schmidtsdrift is a Town, in Pixley ka Seme District Municipality in the Northern Cape Province! Situated 80 km West of K...

The Town of Boksburg was founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on ...

Of Zulu origin, it is said by some to mean ‘beautiful place’, and by others ‘place of dispute’. Roughly 26km east of Vry...

The Town of Springs, East of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhul...

 Allanridge is a Gold Mining Town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Af...

The Letsemeng Local Municipality is a Category B Municipality situated in the South-Western, Free State Province within ...

Koffiefontein's proximity to Mafikeng and Kimberley meant that it became involved in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-190...

The socio-economic growth of the Municipality is centered on Agriculture. The municipal Area also has mining activities,...

The Eersteling gold mine, the site of the first commercial gold mining activity in South Africa’s modern History, has, i...

Located 60 km North-West of Prieska and 26 km North-East of Marydale, site of the present Pypklip. Located in the Siyand...

Village at the site of the present Port Nolloth. The Khoikhoi name Aukwatowa; for 'where water took away the old man'. I...

Town at the Southern foot of Aggeneys Mountains, about 60 km West of Pofadder. It has been suggested that the name is de...

Hill 23 km East of Aggeneys and 34 km from Pofadder, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The name is taken from the Fa...

A Village situated some 32 km north of Grootfontein. it came into being in 1921, to serve a Mine producing; lead, vanadi...

The small settlement of Lekkersing, established in 1926 by Ryk Jasper Cloete, lies 60km east of Port Nolloth. It is said...

iLanga Coal Mines (Pty) Ltd. owns and operates Coal Mines in the Ermelo and Witbank Coalfields. The company was founded ...

The simple brick structure and its adjacent chimney contained the boiler and blower house of a blast furnace and formed ...

These old limekilns are easily overlooked even though they are on a National Heritage site. So take the time, have a loo...

The Confidence Reef was discovered by the Struben brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors...

Click on image to enlarge It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 22 February 1944. 12TH FEBR...

In 1886 Hans Sauer, who combined a medical practice with prospecting on Cecil Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’...

In 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London Missionary Society, established a station among the Griqua ...

The village of Cyphergat was the headquarters of the Cyphergat Coal Mining Co (Ltd). The railway line linking Sterkstroo...