By Paul Miller
Just to the west of the Pilanesberg is the small community of Witrandjie - there has been an explosion of open pit chrome mining adjacent to the community.
I can find no public records of what company or companies have been authorised to mine here. The properties or the RE, RE/3, RE/4, RE/5 and Portion 6 of Vogelstruisnek 173 JP at coordinates -25.268345, 26.918221.
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