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ZOUTPANSBERG , the See also:north-eastern See also:division of the See also:Transvaal. This was the See also:district to which See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Trichard and See also:Jan See also:van Rensburg, the forerunners of the See also:Great Trek, journeyed in 1835. In 1845 Hendrik See also:Potgieter, a prominent See also:leader of the Trek Boers, removed thither. The Zoutpansberg Boers formed a semi-See also:independent community, and in 1857 Stephanus Schoeman, their commandant-See also:general, sided against Marthinus
See also:Pretorius and See also:Paul See also:Kruger when they invaded the See also:Orange See also:Free See also:State. It was not until 1864 that Zoutpansberg was definitely incorporated in the See also:South See also:African See also:Republic. Trichard and his companions had been shown See also:gold workings by the natives, and it was in this district in 1867—7o, and in the neighbouring region of See also:Lydenburg, that gold mines were first worked by Europeans south of the See also:Limpopo. The See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white settlers in Zoutpansberg had for many years a reputation for lawlessness, and were later regarded as typical " back velt Boers." Zoutpansberg contains a larger native See also:population than any other region of the Transvaal. It is highly mineralized, next to gold, See also:copper, found near the Limpopo (where is the See also:Messina mine) being the See also:chief See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal worked. The district See also:long suffered from lack of railway communications, but in 1910 the completion of the Selati See also:line giving it See also:direct See also:access to Delagoa See also:Bay was begun. The chief towns are See also:Pietersburg and Leydsdorp.
See S. See also:Hofmeyr, Twintig jaren in Zoutpansberg (Cape See also:Town, 189o) ; See also:Report on a See also:Reconnaissance of the N.-W. Zoutpansberg District (See also:Pretoria, 1908).
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