WITWATERSRAND

wĭtwôˈtərzrăndˌ [Afrik.,=white water ridge] or the Rand, region, Gauteng (formerly a part of Transvaal), South Africa. The area, which forms the watershed between the Vaal and Olifants rivers, is c.25 mi (40 km) wide and extends more than 60 mi (100 km) from west to east in a series of parallel ranges 5,000 to 6,000 ft (1,520–1,830 m) above sea level. The Rand is one of the world's richest gold-mining regions. The gold occurs in reefs, or thin bands, that are mined at depths of up to 10,000 ft (3,050 m). Development of the Rand dates from the 1880s. Although many of the older mines are now nearly exhausted, the Rand still produces most of South Africa's gold and much of the total world output. Silver and iridium are recovered as gold-refining byproducts, and the region also has coal mines. The Rand also has such industries as engineering, steel milling, metallurgy, machine building, diamond cutting, food processing, and the manufacture of chemicals, cement, furniture, and clothing. Major cities of the Rand are Johannesburg, Benoni, Boksburg, Springs, and Germiston.

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books on: Witwatersrand  - 1080 results

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Portuguese in South-East Africa, 1600-1700
Book by Eric Axelson; Witwatersrand University Press, 1960
Subjects: Portuguese--East Africa
...Portuguese Studies of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. PORTUGUESE IN SOUTH-EAST...AFRICA 1600-1700 BY ERIC AXELSON WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS JOHANNESBURG 1960 WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS 1960 PRINTED IN...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost: An Analysis
Book by John Robert Doyle Jr.; Witwatersrand University Press, 1962
Subjects: Frost, Robert--1874-1963
...POETRY OF ROBERT FROST An Analysis John Robert Doyle Jr. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS Johannesburg HAFNER PUBLISHING CO. INC. New York 1962. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS JOHANNESBURG 1962 Set in 8 pt. and 11 on 12 pt...
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South Africa
Book by Monica M. Cole; Dutton, 1961
Subjects: South Africa--Description And Travel
...Lecturer in Geography, University of the Witwatersrand E. P. DUTTON CO INC NEW YORK...609 40 THE WITWATERSRAND CONURBATION 623...Tectonic plan of the Witwatersrand geosyncline 295...
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Southern Africa: A Geographical Study - Vol. 2
Book by John H. Wellington; Cambridge University Press, 1955
Subjects: Africa, Southern--Description and travel--1951-1965, Indigenous peoples--South Africa, Physical geography--South Africa, South Africa--Economic conditions--1918-1961, South Africa--Population
...Geography in the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg VOLUME II ECONOMIC...the Council of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and to the Union Governments...observation. J. H. W. UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND JOHANNESBURG 1954 CONTENTS...
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State & Market: In Post Apartheid South Africa
Book by Merlie Lipton, Charles Simkins; Westview Press, 1993
Subjects: Economic Forecasting--South Africa, South Africa--Economic Conditions--1991-, South Africa--Economic Policy
...IN POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA WITWATERSRAND WESTVIEW PRESS State and Market in...in the Republic of South Africa by Witwatersrand University Press 1 Jan Smuts Avenue...80301-2877. ISBN 1 86814 225 6 Witwatersrand University Press All rights reserved...
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The State of the University of the Witwatersrand Social Policy Training in South Africa
Journal article by Ndangwa Noyoo; Journal of Social Work Education, Vol. 36, 2000
Subjects: Social work education--South Africa, Witwaterstrand, University of--Curricula
THE STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND SOCIAL POLICY TRAINING IN SOUTH AFRICA...NOYOO THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND (Wits) School of Social Work in South...School of Social Work, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Private Bag 3, WITS...
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Conformity to Social Pressure and Racial Prejudice Among White South Africans
Journal article by John Duckitt; Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, Vol. 120, 1994
Subjects: Genetic Psychology, Psychology, Social Psychology
...Department of Psychology University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Abstract 123...Department of Psychology University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa ABSTRACT. To determine...of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, P.O. Wits, Johannesburg...
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Promoting Peace by Integrating Western and Indigenous Healing in Treating Trauma
Journal article by Gillian T. Eagle; Peace and Conflict, Vol. 4, 1998
Subjects: Social Conflict--Psychological Aspects--Periodicals
...Department of Psychology University of the Witwatersrand This article examines mechanisms...of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits, 2050, South Africa. E...Health Policy at the University of the Witwatersrand, has spent considerable time researching...
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'Music of Origin': Class, Social Category and the Performers and Audience of Kiba, a South African Migrant Genre
Journal article by Deborah James; Africa, Vol. 67, 1997
Subjects: Ethnic performing arts--Social aspects, Popular culture in mass media--Analysis, Social classes--Africa, South Africa--Social aspects
...male labour migrants working on the Witwatersrand(2) and around Pretoria. Despite the...groupings: male workers residing on the Witwatersrand but based in Sekhukhune, the reserve...farther north who have moved to the Witwatersrand more recently to find work (see map...
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Clothing and Identity
Journal article by Barbara Buntman, Shannen Hill; African Arts, Vol. 34, 2001
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Art museums--Management, Art--Exhibitions, Identity--Portrayals
...Gertrude Posel Gallery University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa February...Curators at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), have embraced their situational...Department of Art History, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. SHANNEN HILL is an...
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South Africa's Criminal Culture
Magazine article by Eric Pelser; Foreign Policy, September 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Crime Wave: The South African Underworld and Its Foes (Book)--Reviews
...Pelser Crime Wave: The South African Underworld and Its Foes Edited by Jonny Steinberg 202 pages, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2001 Few people living in South Africa would be surprised that a police sergeant drives a bright pink...
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South Africa's Dance Umbrella
Magazine article by Adrienne Sichel; Dance Magazine, Vol. 68, May 1994
Subjects: Choreographers--Works, Dancing--South Africa
...styles, was scheduled to celebrate its sixth anniversary with performances, March 2-12, at Wits Theatre on the University of Witwatersrand campus in downtown Johannesburg. The 1994 Dance Umbrella, under the new sponsorship of First National Bank, was slated to...
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The Black Middle Class
Magazine article by Frank James; Ebony, Vol. 49, August 1994
Subjects: Blacks--South Africa, Middle classes--South Africa
...masters in business administration from an institution widely considered South Africas most prestigious, the University of Witwatersrand. Mathibe is a marketing executive with South African Breweries. She has a sister who is a psychologist. She and her husband...
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Mining: Dethroning King Monopoly
Magazine article by Pusch Commey; New African, September 2002
Subjects: Economic policy--South Africa, Mining industry--Laws, regulations and rules, South Africa
...mining giants are not happy. Pusch Commey reports. South Africas economy was built on mining. The discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand (1886), and diamonds in Kimberley (1867) was to change the face of the political economy of Southern Africa forever. The...
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Go North Young Man!
Magazine article by John Owusu; African Business, September 1994
Subjects: Africa--Economic aspects, Corporations, South African--Investments, Corporations--Investments, Corporations--South Africa, Foreign investments--Economic aspects, Investors
...giants. From the small scale cereal farmer in Bloomfontein, the spare parts dealer in Durban to the big time miner in Witwatersrand, the South African businessman has now begun to see Africa as a vast unexploited market and a rich source of raw materials...
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S. Africa Protesters Mar Visit by Powell
Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, May 26, 2001
Subjects: Africa, Powell, Colin L.
...bringing stability to the continent," he told students at Witwatersrand University, where he faced his most critical audience yet...that was the message I wanted to leave here with." At Witwatersrand University, Mr. Powell faced down anti-American hecklers...
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Female Times: Health Briefs
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), March 15, 2000
...oncologist Professor Werner Bezwoda. A team of US oncologists did an on-site review of patient records at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa to validate his results before a major international confirmatory study. After their visit the investigators...
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ANOTHER ZIMBABWE? S. African Land Seizures Take Toll on Agriculture
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 20, 2004
Subjects: Mbeki, Thabo
...legal title to the land but has been unable to get the government of President Thabo Mbeki to remove the squatters. The Witwatersrand High Court ordered the removal of 6,000 squatters in April 2001, but the order was never enforced, and financially strapped...
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So Much for 'Brainy' Dolphins ...Even a Goldfish Is Cleverer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 18, 2006
Subjects: Delphinidae, Dolphins, Dolphins (Mammals), Porpoises
...real flaw in this logic is that it suggests all brains are built the same. Dr Manger, of Johannesburgs University of the Witwatersrand, added: When you look at the structure of the dolphin brain you see it is not built for complex information processing...
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Bringing Hope to Children in Dire Need; as G8 Leaders Prepare to Meet at Gleneagles to Discuss the Future of Africa, Kate Mansey Speaks to One Couple Who Have Given Thousands of Pounds to Help Some of the World's Poorest Children
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 30, 2005
...teachers of the deaf in the country. Their money has already been used to train 130 student teachers at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannes- burg and, last March, 80 teachers received free training and resources at the Fulton School For The Deaf in KwaZulu-Natal...
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encyclopedia articles on: Witwatersrand  - 16 results

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Witwatersrand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WITWATERSRAND witwo t rzrand Afrik.,=white water ridge or the Rand, region, Gauteng (formerly a part of Transvaal ), South Africa. The...
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Johannesburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Africa, on the southern slopes of the Witwatersrand at an altitude of 5,750 ft (1,753...in 1886, when gold was found on the Witwatersrand; by 1900 the city had a population...Afrikaans Univ. (1966), the Univ. of the Witwatersrand (1922), and Witwatersrand College for...
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Benoni , Town, South Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1991 pop. 288,629), Gauteng, NE South Africa, on the Witwatersrand . It is the distribution center for a gold-mining district...equipment. Benoni was founded in 1904. During the violent Witwatersrand miners strike of 1922, through which white miners sought...
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Transvaal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Mpumalanga), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Veereeniging (now Gauteng), and part of North West prov...deposits were discovered on what later came to be called the Witwatersrand, and many foreigners, especially Britons and Germans, entered...
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Rand, The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RAND, THE see Witwatersrand . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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