The De Kaap Early Years

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The De Kaap Early Years

The 1880s gold-rush world that gave rise to Kaapsche Hoop.Enter the Goldfields

Kaapsehoop & the De Kaap Goldfields

How the village fit into the wider De Kaap gold story.

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The De Kaap Gold Rush

The rush that put the escarpment on the map.

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Veld Ponde

The gold coins struck in the republic’s final days.

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The Diggers’ Six-Point Charter

The miners’ demands that shaped the diggings.

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The Phthisis Settlement

The mining-lung-disease settlement and its people.

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The British Association Visits

When science came to the mountain in 1905.

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