Lichtenburg

Find property for sale in Lichtenburg, a town in the North West province of South Africa that is sometimes called ‘Wilgedorp’ because of the willow trees that line the furrows along the streets. Located between Coligny and Mafikeng on the R503, the area is about 230kms west of Johannesburg on the main route to Mmabatho. The properties for sale in Lichtenburg are mostly rural in nature, with farms and smallholdings to buy, as well as a number of residential houses and homes.

Originally established on the Middelbosch and Doornfontein farms, Lichtenburg was the focus of a diamond rush between 1925 and 1930. While the fever lasted, there were some 50 000 diggers and 100 000 labourers who were active in the general vicinity. Those who buy property here might like to know that an estimated €15 million worth of diamonds were discovered in the region, but once the sour