Vereeniging

Vereeniging is a city in Gauteng region, South Africa, arranged where the Klip River purges into the northern circle of the Vaal River. It is additionally one of the constituent pieces of the Vaal Triangle district and was in the past arranged in the Transvaal region. The name Vereeniging is gotten from the Dutch word signifying "affiliation" or "union". Vereeniging is arranged in the southern piece of Gauteng Province, and structures the southern part of the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeninging PWV conurbation, and its neighbors are Vanderbijlpark toward the west, Three Rivers east, Meyerton north and Sasolburg south.

The city is as of now a standout amongst the most significant mechanical assembling focuses in South Africa, with its main items being iron, steel, channels, blocks, tiles and prepared lime. In 1879, George William Stow was appointed by the Orange Free State government to search for coal stores in the Bethlehem district without any stores discovered he moved northwards to Maccauvlei on the Vaal River and after that crossed the stream to the Transvaal side. On the homestead Leeuwkuil, he found a coal stores 12 feet thick.