Standerton. A significant town in Mpumalanga, South Africa

[@Phindihlophe]

Beautiful video, absolutely love it and I love and miss my hometown so much😍🤩

[@ellenmolly7307]

That's a very lovely quiet place Standerton my home town born growing old here

[@rem9994]

Interesting trip. Great country.

[@TravelAdventureUrbanTravel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@MphoRamela]

My home town.mpho rameĺa.

[@thabocele2309]

My hometown. Stanera

[@palesamaretlane6491]

My home town 🥹😩❤️. I miss it

[@careerjungle739]

My home town, I grew up here in a nearby farm called Rhino Lodge Game Farm❤❤❤

[@Phindihlophe]

16:06-16:08 I screamed when I saw our old house 😅😅😅😅

[@TravelAdventureUrbanTravel]

Whoop whoop! We’ll stop by for tea next time we’re there!

[@nkosinathikazi3982]

Lovely town, with horrible streets riddled with potholes...

[@djchiz_sa6072]

This video must've been taken a while back though it seems to have been uploaded 4 months ago, I say this because the roads are now in a much better condition.

[@TravelAdventureUrbanTravel]

28 January to be exact ✌

[@peetschabort1080]

Named after commandant Adriaan Hendrik Stander of the farm Grootverlangen on which Standerton was established. Just outside Standerton on the Bethal road is the Grootdraai dam. This dam was specially built to supply water to SASOL 2&3 at Secunda via a canal to a dam (Trichardtsfontein) at Trichardt. The Trichardtsfontein dam was enlarged. It was previously a much smaller dam that supplied water for steam locomotives at Trichardt. Mayor Queen Radebe-Khumalo ordered (2008) the destruction of the Great Trek memorial (because it means nothing) but a court order reversed it for restoration. Was it done? I do not know that . . . During 1975 a huge flooding of Standerton took place. In your video at 24:00 is where the water reached. Houses and the mosque were under water. Motor boats enjoyed the streets ignoring the red lights of robots!!! Building of the Grootdraai dam reduced flooding but I understand it still happened afterwards. Great to see how speed humps and potholes can reduce speed . . .

[@TravelAdventureUrbanTravel]

Thanks for sharing the wealth of information @peetschabort1080! Some history is hard to find.

[@ronm4385]

Thank you for a great history lesson. If I may ask, do you know the history of that area before the general arrived? Surely he didn't find vast unoccupied lands in that area.

[@peetschabort1080]

@@ronm4385 A great question, I appreciate. First of all I belong to NO political party! I read different opinions about history and make my own conclusions about the truth (if ever we will find it). An archaeologist (the study of human history) told me the importance of fertilizer in modern farming. In years before fertilizers land got exhausted of producing crop. This was a problem world wide, so, what now, you have to eat to survive! One of the reasons to take over your neighbours land. BUT, I do not think this happened in the Standerton area. Was this area permanently occupied? NO, I don't think so due to adverse weather conditions, damn cold in winter with no rainfall. Unable for any human being to permanently survive. (Why? see my next sentence.) I am sure that we can describe the inhabitants in years gone by as 'nomads' mainly moving around as hunters for food. Also the game hunted did not stay in one place due to food and water available. If we like it, or not, farming arrived with the dutch colonists. Their knowledge and expertise opened up SA to become prosperous in food supply. For me: I do not look at the labels on food but at the produce for sale.

[@ronm4385]

@@peetschabort1080 Thanks Peet, thank you for being so polite when the easiest thing would have been arrogance and just crassness. Thank you. Well, as you know history is contested terrain. Not so much in Africa though as it was basically written by colonisers who essentially wrote history to cleanse the conscience of generations to come. I am currently reading a book about Mzilikazi's migration from Zululand to Matebeleland in Zimbabwe. Very interesting indeed. If you are truly a student of history I suggest you get yourself a copy of this book. It is basically a history of Southern Africa because there is not much of this territory that Mzilikazi has not touched and fought battles mainly against the boers who actually initially went to Mzilikazi while in the now Vaal Triangle to ask for permission to hunt which ultimately boiled down to deception and land dispossession. Actually the elimination of Mzilikazi accelerated land grabs as there was not much resistance after him. Well, not in a meaningful way anyway. To suggest that Africans didn't do any farming was conclusively debunked by evidence of large scale farming in the Watervaal Boven area/Carolina area where evidence of large scale farming dating precolonial time was discovered. You can Google it and visit the area yourself. I think it was zoned as a protected historical area I am not quite certain. Yes, the afrikaaners were much more advanced in the area of farming and revolutionised farming. That cannot be denied but to suggest there no farming what so ever till they arrived is borderline ignorant. Coming back to Standerton, Volkrust and that whole Majuba area. That whole area borders what was Ndebele land Zululand which explains why till this day you find a lot of Ndebeles in that area going down to Bethal etc... I don't belong to any political party either. I am an ardent voter though. I am a student of history.