Name: Paulpietersburg
Source: http://www.kzn.org.za/index.php?cityhome+2027
Paulpietersburg is a small, pretty town nestling in the foothills of the Dumbe Mountain - a big, flat-topped, triangular mountain in the middle of flatlands territory, popular with paragliders and hikers and named after the wild dumbe fruit which grows on its slopes.The roots of Paulpieteraburg lie in a piece of the then Transvaal Boer republic surveyed by HJ Maarschalk in 1888. The demarcated land was named in honour of Boer president Paul Kruger and Voortrekker hero Pieter Joubert.
Paulpietersburg played its part in the military shaping of the region. General Louis Botha met his troops at the nearby Egode River before departing to Vereeniging to sign the peace treaty that ended the Anglo-Boer War. The peace treaty that ended the Anglo-Boer war was thus NOT signed at the nearby Egode River as often said, while the Anglo-Zulu war site of Ntombe is 30km away.
Paulpietersburg is also on the Rainbow Route, an alternative means of reaching the coast that starts in Mpumalanga and passes through Paulpietersburg, Vryheid, Melmoth, and Piet Retief and ends in the town of Mtunzini. Paulpietersburg is only 3.5 hours' drive from Johannesburg and Durban and popular with visitors because of the nine hot and cold mineral water pools at the Natal Spa just 9 km outside of town. The spa is fed by a natural, hot spring that surfaces on the southern approaches to the 1 536m Dumbe Mountain.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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