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{{Infobox settlement|name=Vereeniging|settlement_type=[[City]]|image_skyline=Dutch Reformed Church Vereeniging-017.jpg|image_caption=Dutch Reformed Church, Vereeniging|image_shield=Vereeniging.jpg|motto=''Per Pacem Ad Industriam''<br/>("From peace to industry")|pushpin_map=South Africa Gauteng#South Africa#Africa|subdivision_type=[[Country]]|subdivision_name={{flagdeco|RSA}} [[South Africa]]|subdivision_type1=[[Provinces of South Africa|Province]]|subdivision_name1=[[Gauteng]]|subdivision_type2=[[District]]|subdivision_name2=[[Sedibeng District Municipality|Sedibeng]]|subdivision_type3=[[Municipality]]|subdivision_name3=[[Emfuleni Local Municipality|Emfuleni]]|subdivision_type4=Main Place|established_title=Established|established_date=1892|leader_title=Councillor|area_footnotes=<ref name="census2011">{{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/760009 |title = Main Place Vereeniging |work=Census 2011}}</ref>|area_total_km2=188.19|elevation_m=1479|population_footnotes=<ref name="census2011" />|population_total=99000|population_as_of=2020|population_density_km2=auto
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<!-- Other information -->|timezone1=[[South African Standard Time|SAST]]|utc_offset1=+2|postal_code_type=[[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street)|postal_code=1930|postal2_code_type=[[Post-office box|PO box]]|postal2_code=1939|area_code_type=[[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]]|area_code=016}}<span class="cx-s<i id=" mwhg="">'''''Vereeniging''''' (</span> moo // fə-REER-nə-khəng; ho pronounced Afrikaans: [fəˈrɨənəχəŋ]) ke toropo e fumanehang ka borwa ho [[Gauteng|Profinse ya Gauteng]], [[Afrika Borwa]], e fumanehang moo [[Klip River|Noka aa Klip]] e kenang ka leboya ho [[Noka ya Lekwa|Noka ya Vaal]]. Hape ke e nngwe ya dikarolo tsa sebaka sa Vaal Triangle mme e ne e kile ya e-ba [[Transvaal Province|Profinse ya Transvaal]]. Lebitso Vereeniging ke lentswe la Madache le bolelang "mokgatlo", le hoja ho ngolwa ho fetohile ''vereniging'', ka e' le nngwe. 

== Tlhahisoleseding ya Sbaka ==
 
Vereeniging e karolong e ka bora ya Province ya Gauteng, 'me e theha karolo e ka borwana ya toropo ea [[Gauteng|Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeninging]] (PWV), mme baahisani ba yona ke Vanderbijlpark (ka bophirima), Three Rivers (botjhabela), Meyerton (ka leboya) le [[Sasolburg]] (ka borwa). Motse ona hona jwale ke o mong wa ditsi tsa bohlokwa ka ho fetisisa tsa tlhahiso ya diindasteri Afrika Borwa, ka dihlahiswa tsa yona tse ka sehloohong e leng tshepe, dipeipi, ditene, dithaelese le lime e sebetsitsweng.

Puo e buwang haholo Vereeniging ke [[Senyesemane]], e latelwang ke [[Sesotho]] le [[Seburu|Se-Afrikaans]].

== Histori ==
[[File:R_Aspeling_Blockhouse_Vereeniging.jpg|thumb|ntlo ya majowe e Vereeniging e hahilweng ke Masole a Brithani nakong ya Ntwa Ya Maburu ya Bobeli.]]
Ka 1879, George William Stow o ile a laelwa  ke mmuso wa Orange Free State ho batla dibaka tsa mashala seterekeng sa Bethlehem <ref name="Leyds">{{Cite book|pages=318}}</ref>Kaha ha ho na ditulo tse fumanweng, o ile a fallela leboya ho ya ''Maccauvlei'' ka Nōka ya Vaal mme a tshela noka ho ya lehlakoreng la Transvaal. Ferekeng ya ''Leeuwkuil'', o fumane setsi sa mashala se teteaneng maoto a leshome le metso e mmeli.<ref name="Leyds" />17 Empa mmuso wa Orange Free State o ne o dumela hore setsi sena se hole haholo mme ho ne ho se na lipalangwang kahoo o ile a hana mohopolo wa ho rafa moo.<ref name="Leyds" /> : 17 : 17 

Stow o ile a dula [[Kimberley]] ho ya batla mosebetsi, moo a ileng a kopana le Samuel Marks. Kamora ho utlowa pale ya Stow, Marks o ile a bona monyetla oa ho sebedisa mashala bakeng sa tlhahiso ea matla libakeng tsa taemane tsa Kimberley. <ref name="Leyds">{{Cite book|pages=318}}<cite class="citation book cs1" data-ve-ignore="true" id="CITEREFLeyds,_Gerald_Anton1964">Leyds, Gerald Anton (1964). </cite></ref>17 Marks e ile ea theha ''De Zuid Afrikaanshe en Oranje Vrystaatsche Kolen le Mineralen Vereeniging'' (Mokhatlo oa Malahle le Lichelete tsa Majoe oa Afrika Boroa le Orange) mme ea romela Stow ho reka lipolasi moo mashala a fumanoeng teng. <ref name="Leyds" />Ka la 25 Pulungoana 1880 o ile a reka polasi ea lihekthere tse 12,000 ''Leeuwkuil'' ka £ 5,000.<ref name="Leyds" />: 18 Moemeli oa Marks e leng J.G. Fraser o ile a boela a reka polasi ea lihekere tse 6.000 ea Klipplaatdrift ho Karl August Pistorius ka October 1881 ka £15,500. Sena se ne se le ka pel'a polasi ea ''Maccauvlei''.<ref name="Leyds" /> : 18 : 18