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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 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.
East Rand Stereo operates from the headquarters in Springs, following some satellite studios that had been opened in Brakpan, Benoni and Boksburg. The video production company Black Light Productions was launched in Dersley, a tranquil suburb of Springs. They are specialists and experts in corporate video and video marketing. Since, Black Light ...
Benoni Premier United, a South African football club; Benoni Commando, a former light infantry regiment of the South African Army; Benoni Defense, a chess opening; Benoni, a 1908 novel by Knut Hamsun; Benoni, original name of Benjamin, son of Jacob in the Bible
The Province of Transvaal (Afrikaans: Provinsie van Transvaal), commonly referred to as the Transvaal (/ ˈ t r ɑː n s v ɑː l, ˈ t r æ n s-/; Afrikaans: [transˈfɑːl]), was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994, when a new constitution subdivided it following the end of apartheid.
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