Witbank Dating in South Africa

Online Dating in Witbank is available now with BmyLUV Dating. Friendly dating for Witbank locals.

Find a Date in Witbank now >>>

About Witbank
Witbank was established in 1890 and early attempts to exploit the coal deposits failed until the railway from Pretoria reached the area in 1894. It was proclaimed a town in 1903 and became a municipality in 1914. Despite attempts by governing bodies to establish the use of the name, eMalahleni, for the city as well as for the district, locals still tend to call the city by its original name. Similarly to the anglicised pronunciation of Johannesburg, English-speaking residents pronounce the name as “wit-bank” and not as “vit-bunk” as in the original Afrikaans pronunciation.

Witbank is also known as eMalahleni and is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the eMalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for White Ridge and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wagon transport drivers rested. The city is known for the coal-mining in the surrounding region.

Winston Churchill visited the area at the nearby Transvaal and Delagoa Bay Colliery during his escape from Boer imprisonment in Pretoria, on his way to Delagoa Bay (later Lourenço Marques, and then Maputo, in Mozambique). Some local residents loyal to the Crown assisted him in hiding and making the final leg of his escape, thus gaining Witbank the consequent credit once the details of these events could be made known. The town has grown since then from a farming community into a business destination where companies such as Anglo American, BHP Billiton, Evraz, Eskom, Exxaro, Joy, Komatsu, the Renova Group, SAB Miller, SAMANCOR, Shanduka Beverages, Xstrata and Zenith Inc amongst many others have found substantial returns on their investments.
Source : Wikepedia

Other dating locations in South Africa :
Johannesburg, Cape Town, eThekwini, Durban, Ekurhuleni / East Rand, Germiston, Tshwane, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Mangaung, Bloemfontein, Buffalo City, East London, Emfuleni, Nelson Mandela Bay, Vanderbijlpark, Msunduzi, Pietermaritzburg, Thulamela, Thohoyandou, Polokwane / Pietersburg, Mbombela, Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, Louis Trichardt, Bushbuckridge, Makhado, Rustenburg, King Sabata Dalindyebo, Mthatha / Umtata, eMalahleni, Matjhabeng, Welkom, Matlosana, Klerksdorp