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Centurion, Gauteng

Index Centurion, Gauteng

Centurion (previously known as Verwoerdburg and before that Lyttelton) is an area with 236,580 (2011 Census) inhabitants in Gauteng Province of South Africa, located between Pretoria and Midrand (Johannesburg). [1]

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Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting and professional services firm that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services.

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Aerosud

Aerosud is an aeronautical engineering and manufacturing company, formed in 1990 by the then key designers of the South African Denel Rooivalk attack helicopter, together with similar leaders from the Atlas Cheetah fighter program (Mirage III upgrade) and the Product Support Environment.

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Air Force Base Swartkop

Air Force Base Swartkop is South Africa's oldest air force base and houses the South African Air Force Museum.

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Air Force Base Waterkloof

Air Force Base Waterkloof is an airbase of the South African Air Force.

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Andrew Murray (minister)

Andrew Murray (9 May 1828 – 18 January 1917) was a South African writer, teacher and Christian pastor.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Boer

Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans noun for "farmer".

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Boxing Day Test

The Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia involving the Australian cricket team and an opposing national team which is touring Australia during the southern summer.

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British concentration camps

British concentration camps refers to internment camps operated by the British in South Africa during the Second Boer War in years 1900–1902.

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Calvinism

Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.

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City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (also known as the City of Tshwane) is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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Clubview

Clubview is a small residential suburb south of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Colony of Natal

The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa.

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Cornwall Hill

Cornwall Hill is a small township south of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, It borders the township of Irene.

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Cornwall Hill College

Cornwall Hill College is a private school in Irene, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Denel Dynamics

Denel Dynamics, formerly Kentron, is a division of Denel SOC Ltd, a South African armaments development and manufacturing company wholly owned by the South African Government.

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Doringkloof

Doringkloof is a residential suburb south of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Elardus Park

Elardus Park is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa.

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Eldoraigne

Eldoraigne is a residential suburb southwest of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Erasmia

Erasmia is a suburb, southwest of central Pretoria in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper, among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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First Boer War

The First Boer War (Eerste Vryheidsoorlog, literally "First Freedom War"), also known as the First Anglo-Boer War, the Transvaal War or the Transvaal Rebellion, was a war fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and the South African Republic (also known as Transvaal Republic; not to be confused with the modern-day Republic of South Africa).

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Gauteng

Gauteng, which means "place of gold", is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Gautrain

Gautrain is an commuter rail system in Gauteng, South Africa, which links Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekhuruleni and O. R. Tambo International Airport.

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George Pomeroy Colley

Major General Sir George Pomeroy Colley, (1 November 1835 – 27 February 1881) was a British Army officer who became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal and High Commissioner for South Eastern Africa.

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Hendrik Verwoerd

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also commonly referred to as H. F. Verwoerd and Dr.

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Hennops River

The Hennops River is one of the larger rivers that drains Gauteng, South Africa.

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Heuweloord

Heuweloord is a suburb in Centurion, South Africa.

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Highveld

The Highveld (Afrikaans: Hoëveld) is the portion of the South African inland plateau which has an altitude above roughly 1500 m, but below 2100 m, thus excluding the Lesotho mountain regions to the south-east of the Highveld.

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Indian South Africans

Indian South Africans are citizens and residents of South Africa of Indian descent.

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Irene, Gauteng

Irene /aɪˈriːniː/ eye-ree-nee is a small village south of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Jan Smuts

Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (24 May 1870 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Kloofsig

Kloofsig is a suburb of Centurion in Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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Kraal

Kraal (also spelled craal or kraul) is an Afrikaans and Dutch word (also used in South African English) for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within an African settlement or village surrounded by a fence of thorn-bush branches, a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form.

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Krugersdorp

Krugersdorp (Afrikaans for Kruger's town) is a mining city in the West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa founded in 1887 by Marthinus Pretorius.

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Laudium

Laudium is an Indian township (apartheid classification) southwest of central Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality.

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Lyttelton, Gauteng

Lyttelton is a suburb of Centurion in Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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Megalopolis

A megalopolis (sometimes called a megapolis; also megaregion, or supercity) is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas, which may be somewhat separated or may merge into a continuous urban region.

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Midrand

Midrand is an area in central Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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Mogale City Local Municipality

Mogale City Local Municipality is a local municipality in West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, in South Africa.

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Moorreesburg

Moorreesburg is a rural town situated about north of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Mzilikazi

Mzilikazi (1790 – 9 September 1868) was a Southern African king who founded the Matabele Kingdom (khumalo), Matabeleland, in what became British South Africa Company-ruled Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe.

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N1 (South Africa)

The N1 is a national route in South Africa that runs from Cape Town through Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Polokwane to Beit Bridge on the border with Zimbabwe.

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N14 (South Africa)

The N14 is a national route in South Africa which runs from Springbok in the Northern Cape to Pretoria.

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Netcare

Not to be confused with the electronic health care system Alberta Netcare. Netcare (Network Healthcare Holdings Limited) is a South African health care company.

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Northern Ndebele people

The Northern Ndebele people (amaNdebele) are a Bantu nation and ethnic group in Southern Africa, who share a common Ndebele culture and Ndebele language.

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Olievenhoutbosch

Olievenhoutbosch is a township in Centurion in Gauteng, South Africa, close to Midrand on the R55 route, which was established in the 1990s.

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Pierre van Ryneveld Park

Pierre van Ryneveld Park is a suburb of Centurion in Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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Pretoria

Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng, South Africa.

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R21 (South Africa)

The R21 / P157 is a major north-south provincial route (with a freeway portion designated as a National Road) in eastern Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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Regio Centurion Private School

Regio Centurion Private School is an Afrikaans Primary School in Clubview, Centurion, South Africa.

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Rooihuiskraal

Rooihuiskraal is a residential suburb southwest of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Air Force

The South African Air Force (SAAF) is the air force of South Africa, with headquarters in Pretoria.

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South African Air Force Museum

The South African Air Force Museum houses exhibits and restores material related to the history of the South African Air Force.

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South African Army

The South African Army is the army of South Africa, first formed after the Union of South Africa was created in 1910.

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South African Military Health Service

The South African Military Health Service is the branch of the South African National Defence Force responsible for medical facilities and the training and deployment of all medical personnel within the force.

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Sterkfontein

Sterkfontein (Afrikaans for Strong Spring) is a set of limestone caves of special interest to paleo-anthropologists located in Gauteng province, about 40 km (23 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Muldersdrift area close to the town of Krugersdorp.

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Sunderland Ridge

Sunderland Ridge is an industrial township southwest of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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SuperSport Park

SuperSport Park is a cricket ground in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Telkom (South Africa)

Telkom SA SOC Ltd. is a wireline and wireless telecommunications provider in South Africa, operating in more than 38 countries across the African continent.

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The Reeds

The Reeds is a residential suburb in Centurion southwest of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Township (South Africa)

In South Africa, the terms township and location usually refer to the often underdeveloped segregated urban areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid, were reserved for non-whites, namely Indians, Africans and Coloureds.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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Zwartkop

Zwartkop is a residential suburb next to the Centurion lake and south of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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101 Air Supply Unit SAOSC

The 101 Air Supply Unit is a parachute unit of the South African Ordnance Services Corps.

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2 Parachute Battalion

2 Parachute Battalion is the Citizen Force paratroop unit of the South African Army.

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2003 Cricket World Cup

The 2003 Cricket World Cup (known officially as ICC Cricket World Cup 2003) was the eighth Cricket World Cup, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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2005 Women's Cricket World Cup

The 8th IWCC Women's Cricket World Cup was held in South Africa from 22 March to 10 April 2005.

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2007 ICC World Twenty20

The 2007 ICC World Twenty20 was the inaugural Twenty20 cricket world championship, contested in South Africa from 11 to 24 September 2007.

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2009 ICC Champions Trophy

The 2009 ICC Champions Trophy was a One Day International cricket tournament held in South Africa between 22 September and 5 October, at Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park, both in the Gauteng province.

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2009 Indian Premier League

The 2009 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 2 or the 2009 IPL, was the second season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007.

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3 Parachute Battalion

3 Parachute Battalion is a Citizen Force paratroop unit of the South African Army.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion,_Gauteng

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