Randfontein

Randfontein is a gold mining city in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km in the west of Johannesburg. With the Witwatersrand dash for unheard of wealth going all out, mining agent JB Robinson purchased the homestead Randfontein and, in 1889, drifted the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company. The town was built up in 1890 to serve the new mine and was controlled by Krugersdorp until it turned into a district in 1929.

Aside from having the biggest stamp factory on the planet utilized in early paper making for setting up the mash, Randfontein, in the same way as other of the other peripheral territories of Johannesburg, is basically a country accumulation of ranches and little possessions in an especially delightful piece of Gauteng. Randfontein's presence goes back to the 1550s when the Amandebele lived as one country at Emhlangeni the present Randfontein territory under King Mhlanga roughly between 1550-1580. The name of Emhlangeni is made an interpretation of today into the Sesotho language as Mohlakeng, which is one of the southeastern rural areas of the town.