At The Fireside--Volume 1 (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
They too each possess stories well worth relating. Apolay Pillatt started one of these small rushes when, in August 1886, he claimed to have discovered gold on the farm Stinkhoutboom, situated close to the Malmani River in the Zeerust district of what is now the North West Province. The diggers on their way to the Witwatersrand promptly turned west to investigate the new finds. Prospectors such as Thomas Sephton and Michael Kelly found more traces of gold on adjoining fauns and a gold rush began. It was quite violent in its suddenness. In a period of a few months the tiny settlement of Malmani boasted a string of mills to crush ore, and four hotels featuring, in addition to the usual diversions, sophisticated entertainments such as dancing girls! On 7 February 1887 the faun Zeekoevlei, belonging to Mr G Pretorius, was thrown open as a public goldfield to be taken up by prospectors and diggers – and the boom was on. President Paul Kruger hated these places, with their drunkenness, bar brawls and men paying for the favours of the hotel dancing girls in gold dust.
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