-
brothers Fred and
Harry Struben,
having discovered gold on the farm
Wilgespruit at the
western end of the Wi****ersrand, were
granted concessions to...
- 1884, the
Struben brothers discovered the
Confidence Reef on the farm
Wilgespruit near present-day Roodepoort,
which further boosted excitement over gold...
-
Established in 1948 [8] by
Margaret Ballinger (Teacher and Politician) (e) The
Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre Established in 1948 and
hotbed of
struggle politics...
- Bantjes's camp for £3,000)
followed in
September by the
Struben brothers at
Wilgespruit near
Roodepoort which started the Wi****ersrand Gold Rush and modern-day...
- -25.36250; 30.37500 (Kwena Dam) Lady Grey Dam Lady Grey
Eastern Cape
Wilgespruit 1925 153 0.018 23 30°42′41″S 27°14′26″E / 30.71139°S 27.24056°E /...
-
August 1884 Fred came
across a
promising quartz outcrop on the farm
Wilgespruit and it was
named Confidence Reef. The
Transvaal government ****isted in...
-
Struben and his brother,
Harry Struben, on
September 18, 1884, on the farm
Wilgespruit in Roodepoort, Johannesburg. This
discovery was
pivotal in
sparking a...
- In 1885 Fred and
Harry Struben discovered alluvial gold on the farm
Wilgespruit (now the
Kloofendal Nature Reserve) in Roodepoort. At that
stage Edith...
- made fortunes. They
owned parts of the
adjoining farms Sterkfontein and
Wilgespruit in what is now Roodepoort. Fred
Struben recalled: "In
January 1884 I...
