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Vereeniging

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vereeniging [Afrik.,=union], city (1991 pop. 345,000), Gauteng, NE South Africa on the Vaal River. An industrial center, its chief products are iron, steel, pipes, bricks and tiles, and processed lime and coal. Thermal power plants there supply electricity to nearby goldfields. The city, founded in 1892, owed its early growth to nearby coal mines. The Treaty of Vereeniging (1902), which ended the South African War , was negotiated there. Author not available, VEREENIGING. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Vereeniging, Treaty of
A Dictionary of World History Vereeniging, Treaty of (31 May 1902) The peace treaty that ended the Second BOER WAR . It provided for the acceptance by Boers of British sovereignty ... Read more
South Africa
Cities of the World ... Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Vereeniging) has about 7.4 million ... also the capital of the Free State. It is a bright ... manufactured in Springs today. VEREENIGING , 35 miles south of Johannesburg ... helped Welkom to become Free State's second largest ... Cape, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Free State, ... Read more

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The peace of Vereeniging: May 31st 1902. (Months Past).(Second Boer War)(Brief Article)
History Today; 5/1/2002; Cavendish, Richard; 719 words ; ... Transvaal and the Free State, met in a capacious marquee at Vereeniging, forty miles south-east of Johannesburg, to consider ... advantage. The terms were presented to the Boers at Vereeniging on the 21st and, against Milner's advice, the British ... acceptance on the 27th. An agonised final debate followed at ... Read more
Facing a new day: a troubled South Africa is poised between salvation and civil war.
U.S. News & World Report; 7/5/1993; Ransdell, Eric; 2449 words ; ... unknown. The neighboring white town of Vereeniging is empty at night except for a few white ... Proposal at a local mall. The majority of Vereeniging's 60,000 whites own their own homes ... cause of death is heart failure. White Vereeniging and black Sebokeng are separated by ... Read more
South African Engineering Firm Wins American Orders
Engineering and Mining Journal; 9/1/2005; Anonymous; 833 words ; DCD-DORBYL's Heavy Engineering Vereeniging Division is becoming increasingly involved ... Cristinas project in Venezuela. The Vereeniging shop has also been commissioned to manufacture ... manufactured at the Heavy Engineering Vereeniging works to date. It will measure 11 m ... Read more
Cops' S. Africa Massacre Tape Erased
Chicago Sun-Times; 8/13/1992; William Claiborne; 263 words ; VEREENIGING A South African police sergeant testified Wednesday that she accidentally erased 13 hours of radio calls among riot ... in which 43 people were killed. The tapes of communications between police officers and the operations room of the Vereeniging Police Internal Stability Unit had been regarded as vital ... Read more
Soc: S.Africa dismisses complaint against Ferguson
AAP Sports News (Australia); 10/14/2002; 520 words ; ... against Ferguson By Craig Ray and Toby Reynolds CAPE TOWN/VEREENIGING, South Africa, Oct 13 Reuters - South African prosecutors ... of waiting journalists when he emerged from a resort near Vereeniging, 100 km south of Johannesburg, and pausing only to reject ... woman from Cape Town. The story also dominated ... Read more
CRAZY WORLD.(News)
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); 12/3/2006; 55 words ; VEREENIGING, SOUTH AFRICA: A dopey boyfriend faked a sicknote which said he needed time off work - because he was pregnant. Charles Sibindana ... Read more
Crippled man may finally find justice.(News)
Pretoria News (South Africa); 9/12/2006; 459 words ; ... crippled - allegedly by a farmer in Vereeniging - 12 years ago. The farmer was never ... a client in the Sonlandpark area in Vereeniging. The farmer, standing on a veranda a ... Kubheka said he has been asked by the Vereeniging police to make a new statement. I haven ... Read more
Woman of a changing world; Adelaide Tambo was born into the old South Africa but lived to see the success of her efforts in the new, writes Maureen Isaacson.(Dispatches)
The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 2/4/2007; 1937 words ; ... 18 1929, the place was Top Location, Vereeniging. In South Africa, JB Hertzog, the prime ... from serious droughts and settled in Vereeniging. Her father belonged to the Bataung ... killed the previous day in riots in Vereeniging. At dawn, a group of young white policemen ... Read more
Minister lauds united effort!(News)
Post (South Africa); 5/16/2007; 203 words ; ... the Roshnee Siva Soobramaniar Alayam near Vereeniging last Saturday for the Maha Kumbha Abhishegam ... close-knit Hindu community in the region. The Vereeniging Tamil Association, Vereeniging Hindu Gujarati Seva Samaj and the Roshnee ... Read more
Second Mill Shell for Kansanshi Copper
Engineering and Mining Journal; 11/1/2005; Anonymous; 235 words ; DCD-DORBYL's Heavy Engineering Vereeniging works has delivered an order for the manufacture and supply of a mill shell for the Kansanshi copper mine in Zambia-the second ... Read more

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