GERMISTON

jûrˈmĭstən, city (1991 pop. 171,541), Gauteng, NE South Africa, on the Witwatersrand. The chief industries are gold mining and processing and the manufacture of liquid oxygen; other chemicals, machinery, textiles, and clothing are also produced. Germiston is South Africa's most important railroad hub.

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books on: Germiston  - 76 results

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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
...tennis courts, and two basketball courts. Of the municipalities surveyed, "native sports organizers" had been appointed at Germiston, Pretoria, and Vereeniging. 57 By the late 1930s the municipal sports facilities in Johannesburg were under ever...
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South Africa
Book by Monica M. Cole; Dutton, 1961
Subjects: South Africa--Description And Travel
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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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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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journal articles on: Germiston  - 4 results

 
 
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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
...her nose, 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...
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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
...the 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...
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Zulu Ritual Immunisation in Perspective
Journal article by Frank Jolles, Stephen Jolles; Africa, Vol. 70, 2000
Subjects: Africa--Health aspects, Healers--Africa, Medical policy--Africa, Medicine, Primitive--Africa, Zulu (African people)--Health aspects
...started training as an inyanga and learnt how to mix herbal medicines. However, he did not earn enough money. He found a job in Germiston where he converted to the Zionist Church and became a prophet, uphorafiti, i.e. a spiritual healer. He started work as a prophet...
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The Movement to Decriminalize Sex Work in Gauteng Province, South Africa, 1994-2002
Journal article by Janet M. Wojcicki; African Studies Review, Vol. 46, 2003
Subjects: Blacks, Gauteng Province South Africa, Human rights, Prostitution, Public health, Public policy
...from many corners, including the minister of health of Johannesburg, B. R. Richard; Cora Erasmus, the minister of health of Germiston; secretary of Health Johann de Beer; and Johanna Raath, president of the Vroue Federasie (Federation of Women) (Citizen, Oct...


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magazine articles on: Germiston  - 3 results

 
 
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South Africa: Election '94 and the Rogue Provinces
Magazine article by James Hamill; Contemporary Review, Vol. 265, August 1994
Subjects: Elections--Analysis, South Africa--Elections
...violence and, with the exception of a number of high profile car bombings in the PWV region -- in central Johannesburg, in Germiston and at Jan Smuts airport -- the terrorist right proved to be wholly ineffective spoilers; a classic case of `the dog that...
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Africa's Silicon Valley?
Magazine article by Tom Nevin; African Business, May 2000
Subjects: Economic development--South Africa, Science and state--South Africa, Science policy--South Africa, South Africa--Science and technology policy, Technology and state--South Africa, Technology policy--South Africa
...Investment targets are in tourism and freight, electronics and IT, perishables, and in aerospace and avionics. The Alberton-Germiston industrial regeneration corridor The area currently hosts a high concentration of manufacturing enterprises which have experienced...
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Black Business in South Africa
Magazine article; African Business, June 1995
Subjects: Black business enterprises--Economic aspects, South Africa--Economic aspects
...promised to transfer majority control of the company, to local blacks over time. Already, New Age with its one plant in Germiston just outside Johannesburg, is giving cola giant Coca-Cola a run for its money. When the Government sold its sorghum brewing...


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newspaper articles on: Germiston  - 17 results

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NO ANGELS; EXCLUSIVE Property Giant Flout Law over Let-Out Clause Residents Fury as Firm Snap Up Low-Cost Homes
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), June 3, 2007
...specifically for affordable homes. Residents in Germiston are furious The Angel Group - who are...complaints could be motivated by racism. The Germiston homes, in the north east of Glasgow...bought three properties in Coll Street, Germiston, for between pounds 100,000 and pounds...
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Confidence Man? Els' Victory May Provide a Big Boost
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 25, 2002
Subjects: Els, Ernie
Confidence man? Els victory may provide a big boost Byline: Paul Martin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES GERMISTON, South Africa - As Ernie Els hovered over the 5-foot putt that would win him the British Open last weekend, his mother, Hettie...
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Don't Demolish Our Lives; DEFYING THE ODDS: SCOTLAND'S 'WASTELAND' COMMUNITIES TELL BLAIR IT'S NOT ENOUGH JUST TO SEND IN THE BULLDOZERS
Newspaper article by Lesley Wright, David Thompson; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), September 16, 1998
...is: Have you ever been to Blackhill, Calum? Or Royston? Or Germiston? These are the bleak Glasgow housing schemes where squalor...43, and Margaret Bradley, 41, run the community nursery at Germiston Community Centre. The centre, which resembles an outsize...
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4 Killed in Bank Hols Bloobath; Horror as Scotland Is Swept by Weekend of Mindless Violence
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 26, 2009
Subjects: Currie, Robert
...Alexandra Hospital but died a short time later. Meanwhile, Kieran Crawford, 22, died after a mass brawl broke out in Forge Street, Germiston, Glasgow, at about 5pm. Another man, aged 28, was injured during the same incident. He remains in a serious but stable condition...
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4 Killed in Bank Hols Bloodbath; Horror as Scotland Is Swept by Weekend of Mindless Violence
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 26, 2009
Subjects: Currie, Robert
...Alexandra Hospital but died a short time later. Meanwhile, Kieran Crawford, 22, died after a mass brawl broke out in Forge Street, Germiston, Glasgow, at about 5pm. Another man, aged 28, was injured during the same incident. He remains in a serious but stable condition...
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encyclopedia articles on: Germiston  - 4 results

 
 
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Germiston
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GERMISTON jur mist n, city (1991 pop. 171,541), Gauteng, NE South Africa, on the Witwatersrand . The chief industries are...processing and the manufacture of liquid oxygen; other chemicals, machinery, textiles, and clothing are also produced. Germiston is South Africas most important railroad hub. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
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Transvaal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 peoples...
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Witwatersrand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 of Columbia University Press...
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South Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...significantly to the economy. The main industrial centers are Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth , Durban , Pretoria, and Germiston . There is food processing and a large wine industry. Principal manufactures include machinery, textiles, iron and steel...


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