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ZEERUST

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZEERUST , a See also:

town of the See also:Transvaal, 149 M. by See also:rail, via See also:Krugersdorp, N.N.W. of See also:Pretoria and 33 M. N.E. of See also:Mafeking. Pop. (1904) 1945. It was founded in 1868 and is the See also:chief town of the Marico See also:district, one of the most fertile regions of See also:South See also:Africa. In the neighbourhood are See also:lead, See also:zinc and See also:silver mines, and some 2o m. S. are the Malmani goldfields. The Marico Valley was occupied See also:early in the l9th See also:century by See also:Matabele, who had come from See also:Zululand. They were driven out by See also:Boer trekkers in 1837. To Boer cultivation the valley of the Marico See also:river owes its fertility. See also:Wheat and oats are largely cultivated and almost all sub-tropical fruits flourish. Following the See also:relief of Mafeking, 17th of May 1900, Zeerust was occupied by the See also:British under See also:General R.

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Baden-See also:Powell. Railway connexion with Pretoria was established in 1907.

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