The Black Heart of the Beautiful Mountain: Hlobane Colliery, 1898–1953

Abstract

Great Hlobane, a flat-topped m o u n t a i n a b o u t 1 500 metres above sea-level, is situated 28 km east of the little town of Vryheid and 492 km by rail from D u rban. It lies in t h e h e a r t of t h e Vryheid coalfield, which is not a continuous workable area b u t represents t h e remnants of what must once have been a Abbreviations and Depositaries CM Z/DUN GNLB IMN IMNA K MDA MNW NA NCOS NTS UG Z/VRY Commissioner of Mines (Commissioner of Mines Office, Dundee) Records of the Commissioner for Dundee (