Exploring Burgersfort, the new Platinum City
The colourful setting of Platinum Aloe restaurant at Thaba Moshate casino resort. The beauty of travel in South Africa is that you need not chase big-name destinations to have a good time away. Take frontier town of Burgersfort for example. Just 20 years ago, then stopover dorpie was the butt of jokes even for locals. The rural population here at the time thought real shopping meant travel to Polokwane, some 150km away! That was a long way to go for shopping but thankfully Burgersfort has cast away its one-horse town monkey. So much has changed in recent years, and Burgersfort is now a boom town, thanks to platinum mining in the area. It has now adopted marketing moniker of Platinum City! The town is growing so fast, with shopping malls boasting major retail and service brands, even city ones like Woolies and Postnet. Estates with double-storey houses are springing up where it used to be open grassland on mountain foothills; similarly impressive homes are also rising up