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RUSTENBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 936 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUSTENBURG , a See also:

district and See also:town of the See also:Transvaal, See also:South See also:Africa. The district originally included all the N.W. See also:part of the See also:country, but is now of much smaller dimensions. Its S. border is marked by the Magaliesberg and other hills forming the N. escarpment of the high veld and the See also:watershed between the See also:Vaal and See also:Limpopo. Several of the headstreams of the Limpopo rise within the district on the N. slopes of the Magaliesberg. The See also:climate of the district is sub-tropical and the See also:principal cultivation is that of See also:tobacco, and See also:fruit trees, notably oranges. The opening of the railway to See also:Pretoria in 1906 led to a marked development of See also:trade. In an See also:amphitheatre formed by the hills and 61 m. by See also:rail W. of Pretoria is the town of Rustenburg with a See also:population (1904) of 1815. The town is one of the See also:oldest in the Transvaal, having been founded in '185o by the Veortrekkers. It was at Rustenburg that the volksraad met in See also:March 1852 to ratify the See also:Sand See also:River See also:Convention granting See also:independence to the Transvaal Boers. At the See also:time it was feared that there would be See also:civil See also:war between Hendrik See also:Potgieter and Andries See also:Pretorius, but they were reconciled in Potgieter's See also:tent. Later Rustenburg became the See also:home of the See also:Kruger See also:family. It was occupied by the See also:British under R.

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Baden See also:Powell in See also:June two.

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