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Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company information


Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company
Company typePublic company
IndustryPower industry
PredecessorAfrican Concessions Syndicate
FoundedSouthern Rhodesia (1906 (1906))
Defunct1948 (1948)
FateExpropriated
SuccessorEskom
HeadquartersLondon, England, UK
Area served
South Africa

Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company was a South African-based electricity company that supplied power to the goldmines and industry on the Witwatersrand. It was a Southern Rhodesian registered company whose main facilities were based in the Transvaal, South Africa. It was formed in 1906 and would supply power in its own name and on behalf of Eskom until 1948 when it was expropriated by the former.

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