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RUSTENBURG , a See also: district and See also: town of the See also: Transvaal, See also: South See also: Africa
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The district originally included all the N.W. See also: part of the country, but is now of much smaller dimensions
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Its S. border is marked by the Magaliesberg and other hills forming the N. escarpment of the high veld and the See also: watershed between the See also: Vaal and See also: Limpopo
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Several of the headstreams of the Limpopo rise within the district on the N. slopes of the Magaliesberg
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The See also: climate of the district is sub-tropical and the See also: principal cultivation is that of See also: tobacco, and fruit trees, notably oranges
.
The opening of the railway to See also: Pretoria in 1906 led to a marked development of See also: trade
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In an amphitheatre formed by the hills and 61 m. by See also: rail W. of Pretoria is the town of Rustenburg with a population (1904) of 1815
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The town is one of the See also: oldest in the Transvaal, having been founded in '185o by the Veortrekkers
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It was at Rustenburg that the volksraad met in See also: March 1852 to ratify the
See also: Sand See also: River See also: Convention granting independence to the Transvaal Boers
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At the See also: time it was feared that there would be See also: civil war between Hendrik Potgieter and Andries See also: Pretorius, but they were reconciled in Potgieter's See also: tent
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Later Rustenburg became the home of the Kruger See also: family
.
It was occupied by the See also: British under R
.
S . See also: Baden See also: Powell in See also: June two
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