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Klerksdorp

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Klerksdorp

Town in North West province, South Africa, situated on the Schoon Spruit River, 150 km/93 mi southwest of Johannesburg; population (town, 1998 est)66,300 (district, 1991, 321,800). The town expanded rapidly after 1932 when gold and uranium mines at Stilfontein were opened up. Gold mining is now the town's major industry.

The older part of Klerksdorp was the first Boer settlement in the Transvaal and was founded in 1837. Klerksdorp was the birthplace of Desmond Tutu, Anglican priest and civil rights activist.
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Desmond Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, South Africa, in 1931, the son of a schoolteacher and a domestic worker.
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