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Brits at a glance

In the lush, fertile regions of the Hartebeespoort Dam in North West Province lies Brits. The town is famed for its citrus, vegetable and grain, all fed by the nutrients of the dam. Combined with Rustenburg, Brits also produces 94% of South Africa’s platinum. The town is busy for its size, but not nearly as bustling as the big city centres nearer to Johannesburg and surrounds. Out of the main town, however, the scenery is characterized by peaceful farmland as far as the eye can see, dotted with homey farmsteads and their surrounding structures.

Brits lies on a typical Karoo landscape of wide-open, golden land, rimmed by low blue mountain ranges. Brimming with history, Brits was brought into being in the early 1840s, and the Armistice Treaty for the Transvaal Civil War was signed under an old Karee tree just south of the then settlement’s outskirts. The town embodies an early Anglo-Boer war character, with typical early 20th Century architecture: large, stately churches and turn-of-the-century buildings.

Despite being a serenely rural area, Brits is only a 45 minute drive to the commercial and residential hubs of Pretoria and Centurion, in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg. Lanseria International Airport is also only an hour’s southbound drive.

Brits is home to multiple schools, both primary and secondary. Primary schools include Laerskool Brits, Laerskool Olienpark, Laerskool De Kroon, Laerskool Vissershoek and Laerskool Sandrift. Hoerskool Brits and Hoerskool Hartbeespoort are among the high schools in Brits as well. 

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