BRAKPAN

brăkˈpăn, city (1991 pop. 130,463), Gauteng, NE South Africa. It is a gold- and coal-mining center and has an ironworks. There is also a technical college in the city.

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books on: Brakpan  - 22 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
...Johannesburg," Geojournal 12 1986 : 153-66; H. Sapire, "African Urbanisation and Struggles against Municipal Control in Brakpan, 1920-1958" 1958" Ph.D. diss., University of Witwatersrand, 1989 ; P. Bonner, "Desirable or Undesirable Sotho Women...
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South Africa
Book by Monica M. Cole; Dutton, 1961
Subjects: South Africa--Description And Travel
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Class and Consciousness: The Black Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa, 1924 to 1950
Book by Alan Gregor Cobley; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: Blacks--South Africa--Politics And Government, Blacks--South Africa--Social Conditions, Middle Class--South Africa, Middle Class--South Africa--Political Activity, Social Conflict--South Africa--History--20th Century, South Africa--Politics And Government--1909-1948, South Africa--Politics And Government--1948-1961
...provide the means for the building of new model townships in the 1950s such as Daveyton outside Benoni and Tsakane serving Brakpan . Up to 1950 however, the backlog in housing provision for urban blacks was still growing. 32 The crisis in housing...
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Our First Half-Century: 1910-1960; Golden Jubilee of the Union of South Africa
Book; Da Gama Publications, 1960
Subjects: South Africa, South Africa--Industries
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The Rules of the Game: Struggles in Black Recreation and Social Welfare Policy in South Africa
Book by Alan Gregor Cobley; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Blacks--South Africa--Recreation, Blacks--South Africa--Social Conditions, Recreation--South Africa, Social Service--South Africa, South Africa--Social Policy
...selected other locations in the Transvaal in 1939 found that space for African recreation had been allocated at Boksburg, Brakpan, Krugersdorp, Meyerton, Nigel, Pretoria, Randfontein, Roodepoort-Maraisburg,Springs, and Vereeniging, inmost cases consisting...
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journal articles on: Brakpan  - 2 results

 
 
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The Transnational Contexts of Early Twentieth-Century American Urban Segregation
Journal article by Carl H. Nightingale; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Segregation--Analysis, Segregation--History, Urban population--History, Urban population--Social aspects
...South Africa," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 8: 135-62; Hilary Sapire, "African Settlement and Segregation in Brakpan, 1900-1927" in Holding Their Ground: Class Locality and Culture in 19th and 20th Century South Africa (Johannesburg, 1987...
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A Gathering of Bald Men
Journal article by Mandla Langa; World Literature Today, Vol. 70, 1996
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...I used to moonlight with Maxi Taxis . . . Then the skeletal railings on their left, beyond them the railway to Germiston, Brakpan, Benoni. Nothando looked at all these structures which were part of her city, strange, now, much like the once-familiar car...


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magazine articles on: Brakpan  - 1 result

 
 
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Privatizing Water: Political Intrigue and Free-market Economics in South Africa
Magazine article by Charles Johson; Multinational Monitor, Vol. 20, April 1999
Subjects: Labor unions, Politics, Privatization, South Africa, Water utilities
...Biwater plc in the UK has indicated its intention to withhold its 200 million rand investment in the proposed pipe factory in Brakpan, Johannesburg, which was to have created jobs for several thousand local people." The next night the television network aired...


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newspaper articles on: Brakpan  - 1 result

 
 
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Weakened Scots Look towards Young Guns
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 25, 1997
Subjects: Scotland
...Scotland are looking for big performances from their less experienced players in tonights game against Gauteng Falcons in Brakpan. Three experienced men, Craig Chalmers, Rowen Shepherd and Ian Smith, have all flown home injured. But Scotland coach Graham...


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encyclopedia articles on: Brakpan  - 2 results

 
 
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Brakpan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BRAKPAN brak pan, city (1991 pop. 130,463), Gauteng, NE South Africa. It is a gold- and coal-mining center and has an ironworks. There...
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Transvaal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in Gauteng) were the capital and the largest city, respectively. Other leading cities (all also now in Gauteng) included Brakpan , Germiston , Krugersdorp , Springs , and Vereeniging . History The Sotho and Venda peoples (both Bantu-speaking...


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