Nigel, Gauteng Wikipedia
Background. A farmer, shopkeeper and prospector, Petrus Johannes Marais, having read Sir Walter Scott''s The Fortunes of Nigel at the time (see Nigel), formed the Nigel Gold Mining Company after the discovery of gold on the farm Varkensfontein in 1886.: 286 The town, which grew around the mine, still bears names derived from Scott''s book and its characters with the suburb of Glenvarloch and its ...