Volksrust
Sign in to saveVolksrust is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa near the KwaZulu-Natal provincial border, some 240 km southeast of Johannesburg, 53 km north of Newcastle and 80 km southeast of Standerton.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Volksrust
- Settlement.image_skyline
- SAR Class 19D 2696 (4-8-2).JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- SAR Class 19D 2696 4-8-2 plinthed in Volksrust, 2 June 2005
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa Mpumalanga#South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Mpumalanga
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Gert Sibande
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Pixley ka Seme
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1888
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 25.43
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1660
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Pixley ka Seme Local Municipality
- Elevation
- 1660
- Capital of
- Pixley ka Seme Local Municipality
- Dialing code
- 017
Show 4 more facts
- inception
- 1881-01-01
- postal code
- 2470
- Commons category
- Volksrust
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Agriculture
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Volksrust is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa near the KwaZulu-Natal provincial border, some 240 km southeast of Johannesburg, 53 km north of Newcastle and 80 km southeast of Standerton.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volksrust” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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