Boksburg
Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa.
Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa. Gold was discovered in Boksburg in 1887. Boksburg was named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, W. Eduard Bok. The Main Reef Road linked Boksburg to all the other major mining towns on the Witwatersrand and the Angelo Hotel (1887) was used as a staging post.
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Worth seeing in and around Boksburg
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Willowmoore Park
Willowmoore Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Benoni, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
5.9 km · cricket stadium · Wikipedia - 02Chris Hani Memorial
The Chris Hani Memorial commemorates the life of Chris Hani, and celebrates his far-reaching political legacy.
8.4 km · memorial in Boksburg, South Africa · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01South African Airways Museum
TAC building, Rand Airport, Germiston,.
- 02AECI Dynamite Factory Museum
- 03Bokkie Park
- 04Boksburg Stadium
- 05Chris Hani Memorial
- 06O.R
Tambo Narrative Centre, 3061 Tame Ave, Wattville.
From Wikivoyage: Boksburg, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Since 2016 Ekurhuleni has hosted the Ekurhuleni International Film Festival.
From Wikivoyage: Boksburg, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Wimpy
- 02Ga Nama Aefele Kwa Nyama Aipheli Ga
Thembisa.
- 03Haya Restaurant
Thembisa.
- 04Hang Awt
Thembisa.
From Wikivoyage: Boksburg, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Boksburg
- Airports
- O.R. Tambo (JNB), 8 km · Lanseria (HLA), 45 km · Polokwane (PTG), 289 km
- Stations
- OR Tambo International Airport, 8.3 km · OR Tambo International Airport station, 9.5 km
- Johannesburg → Boksburg22 km · quickest by road, 42 min · R21–29
- Polokwane → Boksburg284 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · R285–380
- Mbombela → Boksburg283 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · R285–380
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Boksburg
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Boksburg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Boksburg – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Boksburg
Boksburg is 6 km from Benoni, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- BenoniTown in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa6.4 km
- GermistonTown in Gauteng, South Africa9.6 km
- City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipalitymetropolitan municipality in Gauteng, South Africa8.7 km
- Elsburghuman settlement in South Africa7.5 km
- Dawn Parkhuman settlement in South Africa9.8 km
- Bonaero Parkhuman settlement in South Africa10 km