32 Facts About Boksburg

Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa.

Boksburg was named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, W Eduard Bok.

Boksburg is part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, that forms the local government of most of the East Rand.

Boksburg discovered quartz reefs on the farm Vogelfontein, named after Adolf Vogel.

Enterprises of all kinds were set up and Boksburg began to emerge from a mining camp atmosphere to a fully-fledged town.

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Originally, Boksburg was laid out in 1887 to serve the surrounding gold mines, and named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, Eduard Bok.

Also, deposits of high grade fireclay were discovered in Boksburg, which gave impetus to development of a fireclay manufacturing industry.

Immediately to the north of Boksburg Township was a large muddy vlei fed by a small stream from the North-East.

Boksburg was very active in the additional Orders, including being District Grand Master of the Mark and the first Provincial Prior for the Transvaal in the Knights Templar.

Boksburg was the largest of 104 municipalities in South Africa to fall into Conservative hands.

Boksburg reopened the case and, in particular, started searching for the dead woman's husband, Ronald Burch, who had not been seen for four years.

Burch, who had matriculated at Boksburg High School, was a ladies man and had been married and divorced three times before he met Catherine Cronje, whom he married shortly after her divorce in 1962.

Boksburg initially denied that her son was staying with her, but eventually broke down and admitted that he was in a room in the back yard and gave the police a key.

Boksburg is home to the East Rand Mall which is one of the largest and most popular malls in Gauteng.

Boksburg is served by 3 national routes and 3 regional routes, the N3, N12, N17, R21, R29 and the R555.

Boksburg holed out on the par 4 tenth playing against the club manager in a Friday afternoon four ball.

Boksburg started a business supplying the new mining fraternity with the heavy chemical and laboratory equipment needed.

Boksburg started importing medicinal and fancy goods and opened a wholesale chemist shop in Boksburg followed by a manufacturing plant in Standerton and as the needs of the population grew he opened more chemist shops in Van Rhyn, Springs, Benoni, Brakpan and Standerton.

Boksburg was open-hearted, generous to a fault, his good deeds can hardly be counted, and many a Boksburg resident down on his or her luck have reason to bless the day they met him.

Boksburg was a founder member and "Director of Ceremonies" with the Transvaal Freemasonry Lodge in Boksburg between 1892 and 1909.

Early Boksburg had its fill of strange sights, but not the least hilarious must have been seen on that day when the patient horse drawing genial "mine host" past the lake one day took fright and set off down Commissioner Street towards the sun rising.

Boksburg loved to play cricket and took part in games all over the Transvaal.

Boksburg was a member of the cycling team and competed in the Middelburg Jubilee Cycle Race.

Boksburg toured with the shottist club but his flair for cooking exceeded that of his marksmanship.

Boksburg then went to work at his grandfather's business, the Britannia Ironand Steel Works, where he received a background in engineering.

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Boksburg came to South Africa in 1879 to join his brothers Sidney and Percy, with the aim of selling agricultural machinery.

Boksburg then pegged out claims and went into partnership with Carl Hanau.

Boksburg returned to South Africa and volunteered to serve against Germany.

Boksburg was appointed assistant quartermaster-general to the South African forces that landed at Luderitz in Namibia.

Boksburg was charged with clearing the Luderitz-Keetmanshoop railway line that had been damaged by German colonial soldiers, as they retreated into the interior.

Boksburg would allow Boksburg residents to organise picnics at Bedford Farm.

When Farrar was killed, businesses in Boksburg closed as a mark of respect and several thousand people attended a memorial service at Boksburg Lake.