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De Wildt is town with a railway station, police station and post office in
North West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ...
province of
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, 40 km west-north-west of
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.


History

It was named after the Dutch engineer Mauritz Edgar de Wildt (1855–1907), who in 1905 surveyed the railway-line between Pretoria and
Rustenburg Rustenburg (; , Afrikaans and Dutch: ''City of Rest'') is a city at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range. Rustenburg is the most populous city in North West province, South Africa (549,575 in 2011 and 626,522 in the 2016 census). In 2017 ...
. The town is famous for a speech delivered on 7 December 1912 by General
J. B. M. Hertzog General James Barry Munnik Hertzog (3 April 1866 – 21 November 1942), better known as Barry Hertzog or J. B. M. Hertzog, was a South African politician and soldier. He was a Boer general during the Second Boer War who served ...
which ultimately led to the establishment of the National Party.


Parks and greenspace

Nearby is the Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre also known as the
De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre The De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre, also known as Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre is a captive breeding facility for South African cheetahs and other animals that is situated in the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountain range (near Brits and ...
. Formed in 1971, the centre breeds cheetah and wild dogs.


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Report on General J.B.M. Hertzog's Speech at De Wildt, 7 December 1912
– South African History Online Populated places in the Madibeng Local Municipality {{NorthWestZA-geo-stub