18-814: Lydenburg , also known as Mashishing , is a town in Thaba Chweu Local Municipality , on the Mpumalanga highveld, South Africa . It is situated on the Sterkspruit/Dorps River tributary of the Lepelle River at the summit of the Long Tom Pass . It has a long, rich history, ranging from AD 500 to the present. The name is derived from the Dutch Lijdenburg , or "Town of Suffering", and is named for
36-819: A malaria epidemic. The town became the capital of the Lydenburg Republic ('De Republiek Lydenburg in Zuid Afrika') in 1856 and later in 1857 joined the Republic of Utrecht but in 1860 both these republics joined the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR) . The town became the capital of the Lydenburg District of the South African Republic (ZAR). Lydenburg became important because it was on the wagon route to
54-544: A municipality. Forced removals from farms surrounding Lydenburg began in the early 1940s and continued through the 1960s. Residents on the farms, especially through the ICU , ANC and local chiefs, resisted the removals in different ways depending on local circumstances and allegiances. Often violently, the apartheid state removed the families to farms further from the town or to Sekhukhuneland . In 2001, in one of South Africa's first completed land restitution claims, Boomplaats farm
72-540: A newspaper investigation revealed that he did not complete his degree at Wisconsin–Madison. On 11 August 2014, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe announced that Jordan had resigned from Parliament and apologised to the ruling party after reports that his qualifications were false. The ANC statement also revealed that Jordan had resigned from the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC and from
90-538: Is a local municipality within the Ehlanzeni District Municipality , in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa . The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places : The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation . Fourteen are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards , while the remaining thirteen are chosen from party lists so that
108-456: The 16th century a group referred to as the Bakoni people occupied the area. There is evidence of Bapedi people, who referred to the area as Mashishing, that lived in the surrounding area from as early as the 1700s. Lydenburg was founded in 1849 by a group of Voortrekkers under the leadership of Andries Potgieter when they abandoned their previous settlement Ohrigstad (to the north) due to
126-690: The 2004 National Elections, Jordan was appointed Minister of Arts and Culture by President Thabo Mbeki, a post he held from April 2004 to May 2009. In the Eastern Cape Province town of Lady Grey , a school was named after Jordan, called the "Dr Pallo Jordan Primary School". He studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States and at the London School of Economics (LSE). His official biographies, but
144-632: The NEC Secretariat (1985–1988), on the NEC's Strategy and Tactics Committee as convenor (1985–1989), on the NEC's sub-committee on negotiations and the NEC's sub-committee on Constitutional Guidelines and as the Director of Information and Publicity (1989). Jordan returned to South Africa after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990. Having already participated in the 1987 negotiations in Senegal, he
162-504: The Transvaal Republic in 1880. A British garrison under Lieutenant Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long (uncle of the 1st Viscount Long ) occupied Lydenburg to control the goldfields. It was from here that the ill-fated 94th Regiment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Robert Anstruther marched to Pretoria . The remainder of the garrison at Lydenburg was besieged from 6 January 1881, following Long's refusal to surrender
180-538: The earliest known forms of African Iron Age sculpture below the equator, known as the Lydenburg heads were found in the area. The seven earthenware sculptures of heads and other pottery from the site are intricately decorated and may have been used for ceremonial or initiation purposes. However, this is speculative as there is little we know today about the people who made these sculptures. Their existence nevertheless points to Lydenburg's remarkable heritage. From around
198-495: The experiences of the white settlers. In Northern Sotho, Mashishing means "long green grass." Lydenburg has become the centre of the South African fly-fishing industry and is an agricultural, tourism and mining hub. The area surrounding present day Lydenburg has a long history of human occupation. Rock paintings in surrounding areas point to early Khoe-San hunter-gather groups living on the land. Dating back to AD 500,
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#1732772171307216-476: The garrison on 23 December 1880. Land such as Boomplaats and Aapiesdoorndraai farms, near the town, was purchased by black South Africans in the early 1900s before the 1913 Land Act severely restricted black land ownership in South Africa. The communities here developed and irrigated the initially arid area into valuable and productive farms. By 1910 the railway reached Lydenburg. In 1927 Lydenburg became
234-483: The port of Delagoa Bay (now Maputo Bay ) which was not under British control. In 1871 construction of the road was started by Abraham Espag under the orders of President Thomas François Burgers . The first wagons arrived in Lydenburg from Delagoa Bay in 1874. On 6 February 1873, alluvial gold was discovered and within 3 months the Lydenburg goldfields were proclaimed. The First Boer War broke out between Britain and
252-488: The total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of sixteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since November 2021. After the by-election, the council
270-761: Was active in the Non-European Unity Movement against apartheid . He then joined the ANC and went into exile, studying in Britain and the United States . Jordan worked for the ANC in London and in African states. In 1982 he narrowly escaped the detonation of the letter bomb which the apartheid regime had sent to Ruth First and killed her. In 1985, he was elected to the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC). He served as administrative secretary of
288-669: Was also a negotiator in the CODESA . In 1994, he was elected to be a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly for the ANC. He became Minister of Posts, Telecommunications, and Broadcasting (1994–1996) and subsequently Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (1996–1999). From 1999 to 2004, he served as Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the National Assembly. After
306-510: Was bought from Willem Pretorius and returned by the state to the Dinkwanyane community. In June 2006, it was announced that Arts and Culture minister, Pallo Jordan , had approved the renaming Lydenburg to Mashishing, meaning "long green grass". Thaba Chweu Local Municipality Thaba Chweu Municipality ( Northern Sotho : Mmasepala wa Thaba Chweu ; Swazi : Masipaladi iThaba Chweu ; Afrikaans : Thaba Chweu Munisipaliteit )
324-483: Was reconfigured as below: This Mpumalanga location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pallo Jordan Zweledinga Pallo Jordan (born 22 May 1942) is a South African politician. He was a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress , and was a cabinet minister from 1994 until 2009. Jordan is the son of the academics Archibald Campbell Jordan and Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan . Like his parents, Jordan
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