Odendaalsrus
The oldest gold mining town in South Africa, Odendaalsrus lies just north of the city Welkom, in the Goldfields Region of the Free State.
The town of Odendaalsrus is small with much of the surrounding area used for agriculture, but you can see the ‘borehole’ monument between Odendaalsrus and nearby Allanridge. Sounds boring until you consider that it was the sinking of this borehole on a farm in 1946 that led directly to the discovery of one of the richest seams of gold in South Afr...
