In the article below, Jaco Mattheyse explores the history behind a well-known Krugersdorp landmark: the old Police Station on Commissioner Street. He begins by unpacking the social and political landscape of the town in the 1890s.
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Stephen Coan’s The Buried Man can only be described as magisterial. It is the culmination of decades of patient, methodical, and deeply informed scholarship. Coan has lived with, traced, and tracked H. Rider Haggard for much of his adult life, and this monumental volume represents the distillation of that long engagement. It is unlikely to be surpassed for a very long time.
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Designed by P Hill Mitchelson in 1903, this handsome house was first occupied by A J Constable, Outdoors Manager of Central S A Railways. Crucial to the reconstruction of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State which had been devastated by war, suitably skilled staff were recruited from men serving in the British Army and senior railwaymen were housed in Parktown.