I-Brakpan yidorobha yemayini e-East Rand ye-Gauteng, eSewula Afrika, pheze amakhilomitha ama-38 (23.6 mi) ngepumalanga ye-Johannesburg.[1]

Ibizo elithi Brakpan livela epanini elincani eplasini elibizwa ngokuthi yi-Weltevreden, ebegade lizele amanzi anetshwayi begodu mhlamunye belibizwa ngokuthi "yi-brakpan," begodu bekuseduze nepani lapho ukuhlala kokuthoma kwathoma khona.: 286  Ngo- Ngo-1888, kwatholakala umgodi wamalahle begodu kwathonywa umgodi wamalahle ngaphasi kwebizo elithi Brakpan Collieries. Lokha nakwakhiwa umzila wesitimela ukusuka e-Germiston ukuya e-Springs, i-Brakpan yaba ngenye yeentetjhini ezisendleleni.[2][3]

  1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/abs/apartheids-testing-ground-urban-native-policy-and-african-politics-in-brakpan-south-africa-194319481/C2850BEE27379183D368213CF275D1CA
  2. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00020188908707711
  3. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/39667029.pdf