of Pittsburgh Sport achievers – National colours John Bland - professional Golfer Conrad Jantjes - Springbok Rugby player, 2001 Don Kitchenbrand - Springbok Soccer player Hennie Muller - Springbok Rugby captain Andre Nel - Protea fast bowler Hennie Otto - professional Golfer Bernard Parker - professional Football Player Bafana Bafana John Smith - Olympian gold medal winner lightweight coxless fours, London 2012 Douglas Erasmus - Olympian Swimmer, Rio 2016 Joyce Ross - South African swimming champion - breaststroke Frederick Johannes (Tubba) Luttig - Springbok Waterpolo player 1962 Games+ - Chosen for many subsequent years Boksburg boxers Gerrie Coetzee - former WBA World and South Africa heavy weight boxing champion Sibusiso Zingange - South African junior lightweight champion Thomas Oosthuizen - former IBO super middleweight champion Tennis players Rod Mandelstam (born 1942), South African tennis player Boksburg legends Boksburg's First Mayoral Citizen: Benjamin Owen-Jones On 1 December 1903, a Special meeting was held in the Council Chambers for the purpose of electing Boksburg's first Mayor. Prior to Captain Colley of The Health Board vacating the chair, he advised a sum of £2,892.17.3 had been transferred in favour of the Municipality. Once the formalities were completed, he then called or nominations for the Mayoral position. "Councillor J Morris J.P. moved that Councillor Benjamin Owen Jones be elected Mayor with Councillor Dobson seconding the motion" and so Boksburg's first mayor took office. "When Mr B Owen Jones was elected Mayor of Boksburg in 1903, he also became the only mayor in the Transvaal, beating that other upstart mining camp, Johannesburg, by about an hour." Under his administration certain roads were "macadamized", an agreement was entered into with the Rand Water a Municipal Fire Brigade was formed, electric lights were installed, sanitary system was put into practice, building, fire, and gambling by-laws were put into effect. The old iron and wood municipal offices were replaced with the town hall, a town valuer was appointed and a Voters Roll was compiled. Mayor B Owen Jones summed up his first year in office as: "For situation our town is unsurpassed, and it can be made the ideal spot in the colony" and the lead article in the East Rand Express stated that: "Boksburg has reached an interesting stage in its existence. In many respects it is a country village, in others it is a town. The transition in not completed." One of Boksburg's earliest pioneers, Mr