BOKSBURG

bŏksˈbûrgˌ, city (1991 pop. 195,905), Gauteng, NE South Africa. It is an important coal-mining center. Some gold mining is still carried on. Manufactures include railroad equipment, electrical and metal goods, clay products, canned foods, and refined petroleum. Boksburg, founded in 1887 as the administrative center of the East Rand, is the second oldest town on the Witwatersrand.

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books on: Boksburg  - 50 results

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Liquor and Labor in Southern Africa
Book by Jonathan Crush, Charles Ambler; Ohio University Press, 1992
Subjects: Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages--South Africa--History, Working Class--South Africa--History
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South Africa
Book by Monica M. Cole; Dutton, 1961
Subjects: South Africa--Description And Travel
...Bros at Maydon Wharf, Durban Lever Bros S.A. Pty Ltd The new factory of Lever Bros at Boksburg Lever Bros S.A. Pty Ltd AFTER PAGE 528 Passenger train on the...
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
Book by James T. Campbell; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: African American Methodists--Missions--South Africa--History, African Methodist Episcopal Church--South Africa--History, African Methodist Episcopal Church--United States--History, Blacks--Missions--South Africa--History, Missions, American--South Africa--History, South Africa--Church History
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The Politics of Race, Class, and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Book by Shula Marks, Stanley Trapido; Longman, 1987
Subjects: Ethnicity--South Africa, Ethnology--South Africa, South Africa--Economic Conditions, South Africa--Ethnic Relations, South Africa--Politics And Government--20th Century
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Urban and Regional Change in Southern Africa
Book by David Drakakis-Smith; Routledge, 1992
...most notably in the Transvaal towns of Boksburg and Carletonville, sought to oppose or...momentum SAIRR 1989a . Moreover, the Boksburg City Councils attitude sparked a well-supported...including the popular public picnic area of Boksburg Lake for exclusive use of whites. Later...
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Hidden Stories and the Light of the New Day: A Zulu Manuscript and Its Place in South African Writing
Journal article by Liz Gunner; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 31, 2000
Subjects: Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa
...include its making, it shifts south from Boksburg in the urban industrializing north, near...September 1902, a Rev. William Leshega from Boksburg wrote to Sir Godfrey Lagdon, the Secretary...congregations was a very long way from Boksburg, and was situated in the isolated "Reserve...
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History and the Inscriptions of Torture as Purgatorial Fire in Andre Brink's Fiction
Journal article by Isidore Diala; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 34, 2002
Subjects: Authors, South African--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Brink, Andre--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christianity and politics--South Africa, Purgatory--Portrayals, depictions, etc., South Africa--History, South African literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Torture--Religious aspects
...Afrikaner establishment in riots that started in Soweto on 16 June 1976, spreading to Johannesburg, Alexandria, Benoni, Germiston, Boksburg, Krugersdrop, and other black townships, finds graphic representation in an excursion to an undertakers shop and another to...
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Survey of Church Union Negotiations: 1992-94
Journal article by Thomas F. Best, Martin H. Cressey, Sheila Maxey, Karel Blei, Glen Robertson, John N. Wylie, Donald G.L. Cragg, J. Ralph Shotwell, Gethin Abraham-Williams; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 47, 1995
Subjects: Christian union--Analysis
...unity, whatever form that unity may ultimately take. Work of CUC Affirmed by Church Leaders Episcopal persons consultation, Boksburg, 17 March 1993 ("Church Unity Commission Newsletter", winter 1993, p. 1) Seventy-eight persons from member churches, an observer...


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magazine articles on: Boksburg  - 2 results

 
 
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We Can't Forget the Past
Magazine article by Alex Mabunda; New African, May 2004
...acquire the kind of positive attitude that Gama and Fletcher seem to urge us to ditch. Viva New African! Alex Mabunda Boksburg, South Africa Attention Readers: Full address please Letters for publication should bear the full name and address of the...
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SA's Second Industrial Revolution
Magazine article by Tom Nevin; African Business, November 1999
Subjects: Economic development--South Africa, Industrial development--South Africa, Industrialization--South Africa, Manufacturing industries--South Africa, Manufacturing industry--South Africa, South Africa--Economic policy
...gold reef in the Transvaal was found in 1886, and the first important coal mines were opened soon after in nearby areas at Boksburg and Witbank. Population concentrations in the new mining towns made industrial plants possible, and capital and technology...


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newspaper articles on: Boksburg  - 8 results

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Dawn Sets Sights on Phenomenal Opportunity in South Africa
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 13, 2008
...The Shoo smiths team will be travelling to the St Francis Care Centre, in Boksburg on where they will spend five days helping patients. Father Stan Brennan...South Africa bound: Dawn Rowlands who will be helping in a care centre in Boksburg
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Football: Lovell's Cosmic Cosmo Winner
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 20, 2006
...stay in Jimmy Calderwoods plans. The striker played his first game of the Dons South African tour yesterday in Johannesburgs Boksburg Stadium and knew he had a lot of catching up to do, with fellow hitmen John Stewart and Darren Mackie enjoying fine pre-seasons...
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Golf: Otto Bursts into Early Lead as Wind Wreaks Havoc
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 22, 2008
Subjects: Golf
...at the Madeira Islands Open yesterday after a two-and-ahalf hour delay caused by gusts of up to 35mph. The 31-year-old from Boksburg, denied his first European Tour win five years ago when Padraig Harrington sank a closing 20-foot birdie putt in Hong Kong...
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Golf: Otto Breezes Ahead after Gales Delay Madeira Competition
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 22, 2008
...at the Madeira Islands Open yesterday after a two-and-a-half-hour delay caused by gusts of up to 35mph. The 31-year-old from Boksburg, denied his first European Tour win five years ago when Padraig Harrington sank a closing 20-foot birdie putt in Hong Kong...
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Your Faith to Submit Items, E-Mail Faith@dailyherald.com, or Send Fax to (847) 427-1301
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 17, 2009
...volunteer in the ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission Program. She will serve in South Africa from mid-August to July, 2010, in Boksburg, an eastern suburb of Johannesburg at the St. Francis Care Centre. To make a donation to the Young Adults in Global Mission...
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encyclopedia articles on: Boksburg  - 2 results

 
 
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Boksburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BOKSBURG boks burg , city (1991 pop. 195,905), Gauteng, NE South Africa. It is an important coal-mining center. Some gold mining...Manufactures include railroad equipment, electrical and metal goods, clay products, canned foods, and refined petroleum. Boksburg, founded in 1887 as the administrative center of the East Rand, is the second oldest town on the Witwatersrand...
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Witwatersrand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and the manufacture of chemicals, cement, furniture, and clothing. Major cities of the Rand are Johannesburg , Benoni , Boksburg , Springs , and Germiston . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...


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