Mashishing
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| Coordinates | 25 ° 6 ′ S , 30 ° 27 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Mpumalanga | |||
| District | Ehlanzeni | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-MP | ||
| local community | Thaba Chweu | ||
| Residents | 40,714 (2011) | ||
| founding | 1849 | ||
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Mashishing (until 2006 Lydenburg ) is a city in the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa . The former name is derived from Dutch and means "city of suffering". From 1856 to 1857 what was then Lydenburg was the capital of the Boer Republic of Lydenburg .
Mashishing is on the Spekboom, a tributary of the Olifant River , at the foot of the Long Tom Pass . In 2011 the city had 40,714 inhabitants.
history
Lydenburg was founded in 1849 by a group of Voortrekkers under the leadership of Andries Potgieter . They had to leave their previous settlement Ohrigstad (in the north) because of a malaria epidemic . The city became the capital of the Republic of Lydenburg ( De Republiek Lydenburg in Zuid Afrika ) in 1856 . In 1857 she joined the Republic of Utrecht , with these two republics in 1860 in the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR).
In the course of time Lydenburg gained influence as it was on the wagon route to Delagoa Bay (now Maputo Bay ), which was used as a port and which was not controlled by the British authorities. Abraham Espag began building roads in 1871 under President Thomas François Burgers . The first wagons from Delagoa Bay arrived in 1874. Alluvial gold was discovered on February 6, 1873 ; within three months the Lydenburg gold fields were proclaimed.
In 1880 the First Boer War broke out between Great Britain and the Transvaal Republic . A British garrison under Lieutenant Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long took control of what was then Lydenburg to control the gold fields. The city was the starting point from which the 94th Regiment marched to Pretoria under the command of Lieutenant Anstruther . The rest of the garrison was then besieged near Lydenburg. The city has been connected to the railway network since 1910. In 1927 she was given the status of a township.
On June 30, 2006, the city of Lydenburg was renamed Mashishing.
population
Mashishing is part of the Thaba-Chweu township, with a population of 98,387 (as of 2011). Of these, 81.60% were black, 14.53% white, 2.63% colored and 0.60% Asian.
economy
Mashishing is the center of the South African fly fishing industry, as well as agriculture and mining.
Attractions
The earliest known forms of African sculpture, the Lydenburg Heads, were found in this area in the late 1950s. They date back to AD 400.
literature
- Lydenburgse Eeufeesgedenkboek, 1850-1950 . City of Lydenburg, Lydenburg 1950.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b List of former South African place names ( memento of February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on September 27, 2012
- ↑ https://www.artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings/towndetframes.php?townid=260
- ↑ a b 2011 census , accessed on November 16, 2013