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Langlaagte North is a
suburb of Johannesburg,
South Africa. The
suburb is west of the
Johannesburg CBD and is
adjacent to
Mayfair West. It is
located in...
- The
Langlaagte Reformed Church (originally
called Wi****ersrand West) was the 28th
congregation of the
Dutch Reformed Church in
South Africa (NGK) on the...
- the region, it was not
until 1884 and the
subsequent 1886
discovery at
Langlaagte that the Wi****ersrand gold rush got
underway in earnest.
Explorer and...
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southern portion of this
ridge that gold was
first discovered on the farm
Langlaagte in 1886, 5 km west of Johannesburg.
Since this gold was
embedded in a...
- The
Langlaagte Stamp mill or
battery as they were
called in the gold rush era of Johannesburg, is one of the few that have
survived from the
Robinson Mine...
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Committee in 1886 with the
discovery of an
outcrop of a gold reef on the farm
Langlaagte. The po****tion of the city grew rapidly,
becoming a muni****lity in 1898...
- stop; the
roadblocks had in fact been set to
capture the
Foster gang. At
Langlaagte the
police fired on the
speeding car and a
bullet struck De la Rey's back...
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granted concessions to mine the area. When
George Harrison's find at
Langlaagte came to
light and gold
fever took hold, the
Struben brothers were joined...
- The
Langlaagte farm near Paarlshoop, on the Wi****ersrand – site of the
first discovery of gold in 1886....
- of all, the Main Reef/Main Reef
Leader on
Gerhardus Oost****zen's farm
Langlaagte,
Portion C, in 1886,
which kicked off the Wi****ersrand Gold Rush and...
