RUSTENBURG  , a See also:

• DISTRICT

district and See also:

• TOWN

town of the See also:

• TRANSVAAL

Transvaal, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa . The district originally included all the N.W. See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

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 See also:

• WATERSHED

watershed between the See also:

• VAAL

Vaal and See also:

• LIMPOPO, or CROCODILE

Limpopo . Several of the headstreams of the Limpopo rise within the district on the N. slopes of the Magaliesberg . The See also:

• CLIMATE

climate of the district is sub-tropical and the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal cultivation is that of See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco, and See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit trees, notably oranges . The opening of the railway to See also:

• PRETORIA

Pretoria in 1906 led to a marked development of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . In an See also:

• AMPHITHEATRE (Gr. 441, around, and O&arpov, a place for spectators)

amphitheatre formed by the hills and 61 m. by See also:

• RAIL

rail W. of Pretoria is the town of Rustenburg with a See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population (1904) of 1815 . The town is one of the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest in the Transvaal, having been founded in '185o by the Veortrekkers . It was at Rustenburg that the volksraad met in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1852 to ratify the See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

Sand See also:

• RIVER

River See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention granting See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence to the Transvaal Boers . At the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time it was feared that there would be See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war between Hendrik See also:

• POTGIETER, EVERHARDES JOHANNES (1808-1875)

Potgieter and Andries See also:

• PRETORIUS

Pretorius, but they were reconciled in Potgieter's See also:

• TENT

tent . Later Rustenburg became the See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home of the See also:

• KRUGER, STEPHANUS JOHANNES PAULUS (1825-1904)

Kruger See also:

• FAMILY

family . It was occupied by the See also:

• BRITISH

British under R .

S . See also:

• BADEN
• BADEN, GRAND DUCHY OF

Baden See also:

• POWELL, FREDERICK YORK (1850-1904)
• POWELL, GEORGE (c. 1658-1714)
• POWELL, JOHN WESLEY (1834–1902)
• POWELL, VAVASOR (1617-1670)

Powell in See also:

• JUNE

June two .