Randfontein Estates: The First Hundred Years by Anthony Hocking

THIS IS AN INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION COPY BY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE (HUGH SCOTT-RUSSELL & CORRIE VAN DER MERWE) WHO APPEAR IN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (presumably the other four people who have signed it also have some connection with the book). The inscription reads thus: "8/5/91 To dear Farzi and Robin Glad to have met you both! Bill (cannot decipher surname), Hugh Scott-Russell, 'BEST WISHES & REGARDS BASIL FLEETWOOD 08/04/91', Corrie van der Merwe, Graham Waller 8-4-91, Tim (cannot decipher surname) 8-4-91"; 1986 1st ed hardback, 280pp., text by Anthony Hocking, illustrations by Heather Blair & a Foreword by George Nisbet (Johannesburg 1986), published by Hollards South Africa, Bethulie, Orange Free City, copiously illustrated, text sound, some scuffing to the half-title page (where the signatures are), boards sound, no dust jacket (as issued?), but comes complete with slip-case which is a bit bumped, rubbed & marked but sound enough.


Randfontein is a gold mining city in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km (25 mi) in the west of Johannesburg. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company (the subject of this book). The town was established in 1890 to serve the new mine and was administered by Krugersdorp until it became a municipality in 1929. Apart from having the largest stamp mill in the world (used in early paper making for preparing the pulp), Randfontein, like many of the other outlying areas of Johannesburg, is essentially a rural collection of farms and small holdings in a particularly beautiful part of Gauteng.




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