Vereeniging History

The story of a South African town recording its growth during 75 years from a riverside colliery village to a a major centre of South Africa's industry

:: The Township of Vereeniging is Proclaimed.

:: The First Bridge over the River Vaal

:: The Village in 1895

:: Murmurs of War

:: The Anglo-Boer War

:: Peace and Local Government for the Village

:: The River and the Land

:: Steel is made in the Village

:: The 1914 Revolt and the Epidemic

:: Town and Council 1919 -1927

:: The Steel Crisis

:: A Town at War 1939 - 1945

:: A Surge of Post-War Development

:: Turmoil at Sharpeville

:: In This Decade

** This book was written by Ramon Lewis Leigh and was published in November 1968 under the authority of the Town Council of Vereeniging to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Vereeniging.

CHAPTERS

:: George William Stow Discovers Coal