Mashishing

Lydenburg is a city in Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Alternatively known as Mashishing, Lydenburg is located at the Sterkspruit/Dorps River tributary of the Lepelle River at the base of the Long Tom Pass. The call is derived from the Dutch Lijdenburg, or "Town of Suffering". Lydenburg has grow to be the centre of the South African fly-fishing industry and is an agricultural and mining hub. The earliest acknowledged types of African sculpture in southern Africa courting returned to AD four hundred have been discovered inside the location in the late Fifties.

Lydenburg changed into founded in 1849 by means of a collection of Voortrekkers underneath the management of Andries Potgieter after they abandoned their previous agreement Ohrigstad due to a malaria epidemic. The metropolis have become the capital of the Lydenburg Republic in 1856 and later in 1857 joined the Republic of Utrecht but in 1860 each those republics joined the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek.The metropolis became the capital of the Lydenburg District of the South African Republic.