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Encyclopedia Britannica



KRUGERSDORP

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 933 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
KRUGERSDORP , a town of the Transvaal, 21 M. N.W. of Johannesburg by
rail
 . Pop. (1904), 20,073, of whom 6946 were whites. It is built on the Witwatersrand at an
elevation
  of 5709 ft. above the sea, and is a
mining
  centre of some importance. It is also the starting-point of a railway to
Zeerust
  and Mafeking. Krugersdorp was founded in 1887 at the time of the discovery of gold on the Rand and is named after President Kruger. Within the municipal area is the Paardekraal
monument
  erected to commemorate the victory gained by the Boers under Andries Pretorius in 1838 over the Zulu king Dingaan, and on the 16th of December each year, kept as a public holiday, large numbers of Boers assemble at the
monument
  to celebrate the event. Here in December 188o a
great
 
meeting
  of Boers resolved again to proclaim the independence of the Transvaal. The formal proclamation was made on Dingaan's Day, and after the defeat of the British at Majuba Hill in 1881 that victory was also commemorated at Paardekraal on the 16th of December. The monument, which was damaged during the war of 1899-1902,
was restored by the British authorities. It was at Doornkop, near Krugersdorp, that Dr L. S. Jameson and his " raiders " surrendered to Commandant Piet
Cronje
  on the and of January 1896 (see TRANSVAAL: History). At Sterkfontein, 8 m. N.W. of Krugersdorp, are limestone caves containing beautiful stalactites.


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