ZOUTPANSBERG
, the See also:north-eastern See also:division of the See also:Transvaal
.
This was the See also:district to which See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Trichard and See also:Jan See also:van Rensburg, the forerunners of the See also:Great Trek, journeyed in 1835
.
In 1845 Hendrik See also:Potgieter, a prominent See also:leader of the Trek Boers, removed thither
.
The Zoutpansberg Boers formed a semi-See also:independent community, and in 1857 Stephanus Schoeman, their commandant-See also:general, sided against Marthinus
See also:Pretorius and See also:Paul See also:Kruger when they invaded the See also:Orange See also:Free See also:State
.
It was not until 1864 that Zoutpansberg was definitely incorporated in the See also:South See also:African See also:Republic
.
Trichard and his companions had been shown See also:gold workings by the natives, and it was in this district in 1867—7o, and in the neighbouring region of See also:Lydenburg, that gold mines were first worked by Europeans south of the See also:Limpopo
.
The See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white settlers in Zoutpansberg had for many years a reputation for lawlessness, and were later regarded as typical " back velt Boers." Zoutpansberg contains a larger native See also:population than any other region of the Transvaal
.
It is highly mineralized, next to gold, See also:copper, found near the Limpopo (where is the See also:Messina mine) being the See also:chief See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal worked
.
The district See also:long suffered from lack of railway communications, but in 1910 the completion of the Selati See also:line giving it See also:direct See also:access to Delagoa See also:Bay was begun
.
The chief towns are See also:Pietersburg and Leydsdorp
.
See S
.
See also:Hofmeyr, Twintig jaren in Zoutpansberg (Cape See also:Town, 189o) ; See also:Report on a See also:Reconnaissance of the N.-W
.
Zoutpansberg District (See also:Pretoria, 1908)
.
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