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In 1884 , brothers Fred and Harry Struben, having discovered Gold on the farm Wilgespruit at the western end of the Witwatersrand , were granted concessions to mine the area. When George Harrison's find at Langlaagte came to light and gold fever took hold, the Strubens brothers were joined by a swarm of gold diggers. Though the Confidence Reef bore little gold and their mine was unprofitable, the ramshackle town that grew around it became the Roodepoort municipality in 1904 . Incorporating the towns of Hamberg, Florida and Maraisburg, Roodepoort became a city in 1977 . Roodepoort no longer has a separate municipal government, and the municipality is part of the City Of Johannesburg . |
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