Secunda

Secunda is a town constructed amidst the coalfields of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It became named for being the second one Sasol extraction refinery generating oil from coal, after Sasolburg, a few a hundred and forty kilometres to the west. During 1974, Sasol Townships Limited, a subsidiary corporation of Sasol Limited, changed into instructed to set up and increase Secunda. After the web page for the Sasol complicated have been diagnosed, it needed to be determined whether or not to mix the present towns of Evander and Trichardt.

The big burden that extensions of this nature could have had at the monetary and administrative sources of the mounted groups as well as the tempo at which such development should proceed was decisive and resulted in the selection to develop Trichardt and Secunda to be one city, named Secunda. Evander however stayed a separate city. On 28 June 1976, the first metropolis place turned into proclaimed. 1976 noticed the primary resident of Secunda transferring in. Mr Etienne Prop Smith moved into Tuyshuys, the authentic house of the farm Goede Hoop, on which Secunda changed into constructed.