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Brakpan was a suburb of Benoni from 1914–1919, when it was granted municipal status. [ 2 ] : 286 The Brakpan miners were involved in the miners' strike of 1922 . The town has gradually lost its importance as a gold mining area as the surrounding mines suffered from low yield over high cost.
He started importing medicinal and fancy goods and opened a wholesale chemist shop in Boksburg followed by a manufacturing plant in Standerton and as the needs of the population grew he opened more chemist shops in Van Rhyn, Springs, Benoni, Brakpan and Standerton. A distinction to his chain of shops was the monopoly he had for Zeiss Cameras.
Benoni is situated towards the centre of the East Rand and lies on the urban fringe where the urban area dissolves into the smallholdings and farmland to the north. It borders on Kempton Park to the north-west, Boksburg to the west, Brakpan to the south and Daveyton to the east.
The St Andrew's Presbyterian Congregation was established in 1890 and its early history is closely interwoven with that of Germiston itself. The corner-stone of the present well preserved church building, which was designed in the neo-Gothic style, was la Type of site: Church: 9/2/226/0001 60 Strydom Street, Heidelberg.
Benoni, Gauteng, a town in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, in the East Rand region of Gauteng province in South Africa Benoni, a barangay in Mahinog , Camiguin, Philippines People
The City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseKurhuleni; Afrikaans: Ekurhuleni Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Toropokgolo ya Ekurhuleni; Sotho: Masepala wa Toropohadi ya Ekurhuleni) is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of the East Rand region of Gauteng, a large suburban region east of Johannesburg.
The legal meaning of the term "township" in South Africa differs from the popular usage and has a precise legal meaning [10] [11] without any racial connotations. The term is used in land titles and townships are subdivided into erfs (stands). [12] "Township" can also mean a designated area or district, as part of a place name.
Brakpan Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South African Territorial Reserve. History