Perdekop Near Volksrust

Perdekop Town


Perdekop, (Afrikaans for horses hill), is a small town situated on top of a 1,889 m peak in the Mpumalanga province, in South Africa.
Village 38 km north of Volksrust and 47 km south of Standerton. Formerly Paardekop, ‘horses hill’, from the practice of keeping horses there when horse-sickness prevailed in lower lying areas.^[2]
The town was established during an equine sickness epidemic when farmers found that when they brought their horses to the top of this hill they were protected from the sickness. During the Second Boer War the British operated a lookout balloon here to monitor Boer activities.

Standerton

Standerton Near Volksrust


Standerton is 85 km from Volksrust town.

Standerton is a large commercial and agricultural town lying on the banks of the Vaal River in Mpumalanga, South Africa, which specialises in cattle, dairy, maize and poultry farming. The town was established in 1876 and named after Boer leader Commandant A. H. Stander. During the Second Boer War a British garrison in the town was besieged by the Boers for three months. General Jan Smuts won this seat during elections and went on to assist in setting up the League of Nations. Standerton is part of the Lekwa Local Municipality.

Wakkerstroom near Volksrust

WAKKERSTROOM NEAR VOLKSRUST


Wakkerstroom is a small town near the town of Volksrust in Mpumalanga Province.

Coordinates : 27°21′S 30°08′E

Wakkerstroom, (Awake Stream), is the second oldest town in Mpumalanga province in South Africa.
Town on the KwaZulu-Natal border, 27 km east of Volksrust and 56 km south-east of Amersfoort. It was laid out on the farm Gryshoek, proclaimed in 1859, and administered by a village council from 1910. Originally named Marthinus-Wesselstroom, it became known as Wesselstroom and then Wakkerstroom, ‘awake stream’, ‘lively stream’, after the river, which also gave its name to the district, namely the Mzinyati.
It was established in 1859 and its name is an Afrikaans translation of the Zulu name for the river that flows near the town, uThaka, (Awake). Sheep and cattle farming are the primary industries.
Mountainous with kloofs, mountain springs, vlei areas, dams, conservation and heritage site. It is internationally renowned as a "birders paradise".

Daggakraal near Volksrust

Daggakraal Near Volksrust




Daggakraal is a town in Gert Sibande District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It is near the town of Volksrust.
Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, President of the ANC from 1930 to 1936, was born in Daggakraal circa 1881.

Coordinates: 27°07′01″S 29°58′01″E / 27.117°S 29.967°E

Population (2011)
• Total	17,378
• Density	270/km2

Statue Of Pixley Ka Seme

Amersfoort Near Volksrust

Amersfoort Near Volksrust


Amersfoort is near Volksrust
Amersfoort is a small town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town was established in 1888 around a Dutch Reformed Church which was built in 1876.Lying at 1,664m above sea level in the upper reached of the Vaal river basin on the banks of the Schulpspruit, the area was first settled by Europeans in 1876 when two farmers of the area donated land to the church, where Rev. Frans Lion Cachet proceeded to build a Dutch Reformed church. The new village was named after the hometown (in the Netherlands) of the Dutch farmers. When the area became too small for the growing village, more land was purchased from one of the original donors and the town was proclaimed in 1888. The bridge over the Vaal River was built in 1896 and is a national monument. The township of eZamokuhle (meaning "to make it beautiful") lies adjacent to the town and contributes greatly to its economy.
Pixley ka Isaka Seme, one of the founders of the South African Native National Congress, later renamed the African National Congress maintained law offices in Amersfoort and spent time there in connection with his legal and political work for the community at Daggakraal, the Native Farmers Association, and the Swazi royal family in Swaziland.

CHARLESTOWN IN SOUTH AFRICA

CHARLESTOWN BETWEEN NEWCASTLE AND VOLKSRUST


Established : 1889
Charlestown is a small town situated at the top of Laing's Nek pass in KwaZulu–Natal, South Africa between Newcastle and Volksrust. It started out as an important railway station and customs post between Natal and Transvaal in 1891 until the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910, and customs tariffs were abolished. It is named after Sir Charles Mitchell, governor of Natal.
It became a dormitory suburb of Volksrust, just across the border in the Transvaal, and many black people bought freehold land in the town. During the 1960s, however, the apartheid policy of the government led to most of the black inhabitants being forcibly removed to Madadeni, near Newcastle, and Charlestown became a ghost town.

Places Near Volksrust

Places Near Volksrust

Majuba Power Station Near Volksrust

Majuba Power Station Near Volksrust



Majuba Power Station between Volksrust and Amersfoort in Mpumalanga, South Africa, is a coal-fired power plant operated by Eskom. Majuba is Eskom's only power station that is not linked to a specific mine and it receives its coal from various sources.

Majuba has three 665 MW dry-cooled units and three 716 MW wet-cooled units with a total installed capacity of 4,110MW with a turbine Maximum Continuous Rating of 35.3% on the dry-cooled turbines and 37.7% on the wet-cooled units.

Construction started in September 1983 and by April 1996 the first unit was connected to the grid. The last unit was commissioned in April 2001.