Volksrust

In 1888 the Transvaal government decided to establish a town on the edge of the Drakensburg escarpment, on the border of Natal.

A place was chosen near where they had won a decisive battle in February 1881 to regain their independence from the British. Several farms were bought for the purpose and named Volksrust ('people's rest') because the Transvaal forces rested there after the Battle of Majuba.

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Today Volksrust is a commercial centre[/b], with maize, wool, sorghum, sunflower seed, beef and dairy as its main products. It is the junction for the main Johannesburg-Durban railway line.

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