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The first Hypermarket in South Africa was opened by Pick 'n Pay in Boksburg on 19 March 1975. The first day's turnover was R 176,000 [13] The first detection of a neutrino in nature was made in Boksburg's ERPM gold mine [14] by a group led by Friedel Sellschop in February 1965
The Transvaal Colony, which had been formed out of the bulk of the old South African Republic after the Second Boer War, became the Transvaal Province in the new union. Half a century later, in 1961, the union ceased to be part of the Commonwealth of Nations and became the Republic of South Africa.
2 days ago · THE 125th anniversary of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 is marked on 11 October 2024. Also known as the South African War or the Second Boer War, the brutal conflict between the colonising forces of the British and the Boers (originally Dutch settlers, today known as Afrikaners) affected all cultural groups in the war zone.
2 days ago · The establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910 brought the Boer and British colonies together under British authority. But it did not satisfy the expectations of Afrikaner nationalists.
Kaart van de Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal) 1896. Den Haag : J. Smulders. 1:2m. The Past and Future of the Kaffir-Races. in three parts ... With a map and illustrations. 1866. HOLDEN, William Clifford. British Rule in South Africa. Illustrated in the Story of Kama and his tribe, and of the war in Zululand. 1879. HOLDEN, William Clifford.
This completed the picture of Boksburg as it was towards the end of the 19th Century - a gold and coal mining town with associated business and residential development, linked by rail with Johannesburg and by road and wagon with the rest of Transvaal, Durban and Delagoa Bay, administered by a Health Committee under the jurisdiction of the government of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek based in ...
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Boksburg was where coal was first mined in the then Transvaal (now Gauteng) and is still one of the most important gold-producing towns on the Witwatersrand. Take time out to visit attractive Boksburg Lake surrounded by terraces, lawns and trees, or opt for some retail therapy at the East Rand Mall, less than 10km from OR Tambo International Airport.
