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Encyclopedia Britannica



RUSTENBURG

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 936 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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