Pilgrim's Rest, South Africa
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Pilgrim's Rest (Afrikaans: Pelgrimsrus) is a small museum town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa which is protected as a provincial heritage site. It was the second of the Transvaal gold fields, attracting a rush of prospectors in 1873, soon after the MacMac diggings started some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) away. Alluvial panning eventually gave way to deeper ore mining. In the 1970s the town, not greatly changed, became a tourist destination.
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Pilgrims Rest
Pelgrimsrus | |
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Coordinates: 24°54′28″S 30°45′24″E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Mpumalanga |
District | Ehlanzeni |
Municipality | Thaba Chweu |
Area | |
• Total | 25.40 km2 (9.81 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 1,721 |
• Density | 68/km2 (180/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 93.4% |
• Coloured | 1.5% |
• White | 4.8% |
• Other | 0.3% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Northern Sotho | 50.4% |
• Sotho | 15.3% |
• Swazi | 13.5% |
• Tsonga | 5.9% |
• Other | 14.8% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
PO box | 1290 |
Area code | 013 |
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