Rustenburg
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| Coordinates | 25 ° 40 ′ S , 27 ° 15 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
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| District | Bojanala Platinum | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-NW | ||
| local community | Rustenburg | ||
| height | 1170 m | ||
| surface | 282.4 km² | ||
| Residents | 104,612 (2011) | ||
| density | 370.4 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1851 | ||
.jpg) Street market in Rustenburg
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Rustenburg [ rœstənbœrx ] is a town in the province of North West in South Africa . It is located northwest of the Magaliesberg . The city had 104,612 inhabitants in 2011. The name Rustenburg means place of rest.
history
Rustenburg was founded in 1851 by Voortrekkern . It owes its prosperity to two platinum mines in Merensky Reef , which are among the largest in the world. In addition, an internationally used natural stone is being mined in the vicinity of the city .
Attractions
Worth seeing in Rustenburg are the Anglican Church built in 1871, the Dutch Reformed Church and the City Hall from the 19th century, built in late Victorian historicism . The Rustenburg Museum offers a collection of archaeological finds from the region as well as an overview of the history of the South African Republic .
The Boekenhoutfontein farm area , which once belonged to the South African politician Paul Kruger , is located a few kilometers north of Rustenburg. There are several houses in the Cape Dutch style . A wooden hut from 1841 has also been preserved.
Sports
Rustenburg was one of the ten host cities of the 2010 Soccer World Cup . Five preliminary round matches and one round of 16 were played in the 42,000-seat Royal Bafokeng Stadium .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- John Cranko (1927–1973), dancer and choreographer
- Pik Botha (1932–2018), Foreign Minister of South Africa (1977–1994)
- Frik du Preez (born 1935), rugby union player
- Koos du Plessis (1945–1984), singer-songwriter and poet
- Danie Visser (* 1961), tennis player
- Johan Botha (1965–2016), opera singer
- Kimbie Humer-Vogl (* 1971), Austrian politician (Greens) and clinical psychologist
- Cashandra Slingerland (* 1974), racing cyclist
Other personalities
The German pilot Willy Rosenstein , who lived in Rustenburg, was killed there in a plane crash in 1949.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed November 21, 2013
- ↑ Rustenburg, in: South Africa's North-West Province - A Guide to it's History and Heritage ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
