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Lydenburg

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Lydenburg

Town in Gauteng province, South Africa, one of the oldest towns in the former Transvaal, 230 km/143 mi northeast of Pretoria; population (district, 1991) 37,000. Platinum, chromium, and gold are mined in the area.

Lydenburg means ‘the place of suffering’, the name given by the early fever-stricken Voortrekkers to their new settlement when they moved 48 km/30 mi south from Potchefstroom to Ohrigstad. The first sizeable gold-mining area in the Transvaal was discovered nearby. The first Dutch Reformed church, built in 1864, is now a museum of Voortrekker relics. Lydenburg was an independent republic for 11 years until its amalgamation with the Utrecht Republic (1858).



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I was telling Evans one night, I remember, of some wonderful workings I had found whilst hunting koodoo and eland in what is now the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
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