There are two Middelburgs in South Africa, for the other Middelburg, Eastern Cape or see Middelburg (disambiguation). Middelburg is the name of several cities and towns: Middelburg, Netherlands, the capital city of the province of Zeeland Middelburg, a small village near Reeuwijk, the Netherlands Middelburg, Belgium Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa See also: Middleburg. ...

Middelburg is a large farming and industrial town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Columbus Steel, a large stainless steel plant is situated here. Mpumalanga, (name changed from Eastern Transvaal in 24 August 1995, is a province in South Africa. ... In metallurgy, stainless steel is defined[1] as a ferrous alloy with a minimum of 10. ...

Middelburg was established as Nasareth, (root from dry land), in 1864 by the Voortrekkers on the banks of the Klein Olifants River. The name was changed in 1872 to Middelburg to mark its situation midway between the Transvaal capital Pretoria and the gold mining town of Lydenburg. A Dutch Reformed Church was built in 1890 and became a focal point in the area. The British built a large concentration camp in Middelburg during the second Boer War. The Memorial Museum was built at the site next to the 1,381 graves of women and children died here. See also: 1863 in South Africa, other events of 1864, 1865 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ... The Voortrekker Monument, built in 1949 The Voortrekkers (Afrikaans for pioneers, literally those who move ahead) were white Afrikaner farmers, then known as Boers, who in the 1830s and 1840s emigrated in what is called the Great Trek from the British controlled Cape Colony into the erstwhile black-populated (depopulated... Flag of Transvaal The Transvaal was one of the provinces of South Africa from 1910 until 1994. ... The central area of Pretoria. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... Lydenburg is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. ... The Dutch Reformed Church or Netherlands Reformed Church (in Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk (NHK)) is a denomination of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin. ... See also: 1889 in South Africa, other events of 1890, 1891 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War There were two Boer wars, one from December 16, 1880-March 23, 1881 and the second from October 11, 1899-May 31, 1902 both between the British and the settlers of Dutch, French and German origin (called Boers, Afrikaners or Voortrekkers) in South...

The township of Mhuzi was developed simultaneously to keep the whites separate from the blacks with a ridge in between the two towns. Many of the houses in Mhuzi did not have electricity for many years and in winter smoke from the coal stoves created a lot of pollution which rolled over the ridge into Middleburg. Much later a due to the industrial growth, another township to house coloreds was laid out near Columbus Steel and was named Nasareth after Middelburg's original name. Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground either by underground mining, open-pit mining or strip mining. ...

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