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Witbank

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Witbank, renamed eMalahleni in 2006 is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the eMalahleni Local Municipality. [1]

51 relations: Afrikaans, Anglo American plc, Anneline Kriel, Asian South Africans, Association football, BHP, Black people, Coal, Coal mining, Coloureds, Duvha Power Station, Emalahleni Local Municipality, Mpumalanga, English language, Eskom, Evraz, Exxaro, Fossil fuel power station, Francois Pienaar, Highveld, Hugh Masekela, Johannesburg, Komatsu Limited, Maputo, Maputo Bay, Miss World, Miss World 1974, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Mpumalanga Black Aces F.C., Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Northern Sotho language, Pretoria, Pumas (rugby team), Rail transport, Renova Group, Roman Catholic Diocese of Witbank, Rugby union, SABMiller, Sandstone, South Africa, South African English, South African Republic, Swazi language, Tshwane University of Technology, Wagon, White people, Winston Churchill, Witbank Spurs F.C., Xstrata, ..., Zulu language. Expand index (1 more) »

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Anglo American plc

Anglo American plc is a multinational mining company based in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, United Kingdom.

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Anneline Kriel

Anneline Kriel (born 28 July 1955 in Pretoria but grew up in Witbank) is a South African actress, model and a former Miss World and Miss South Africa.

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Asian South Africans

Asian South Africans are South Africans of Asian descent.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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BHP

BHP, formerly known as BHP Billiton, is the trading entity of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton plc, an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum dual-listed public company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Coloureds

Coloureds (Kleurlinge) are a multiracial ethnic group native to Southern Africa who have ancestry from various populations inhabiting the region, including Khoisan, Bantu speakers, Afrikaners, and sometimes also Austronesians and South Asians.

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Duvha Power Station

Duvha Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, is a coal-fired power plant operated by Eskom.

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Emalahleni Local Municipality, Mpumalanga

Emalahleni Local Municipality is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Eskom

Eskom is a South African electricity public utility, established in 1923 as the Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) by the government of the Union of South Africa in terms of the Electricity Act (1922).

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Evraz

EVRAZ plc (ЕВРАЗ) is a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Exxaro

Exxaro Resources (formerly part of Kumba Resources) is a large coal and heavy minerals mining company in South Africa.

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Fossil fuel power station

A fossil fuel power station is a power station which burns a fossil fuel such as coal, natural gas, or petroleum to produce electricity.

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Francois Pienaar

Jacobus Francois Pienaar (born 2 January 1967) is a retired South African rugby union player.

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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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Hugh Masekela

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer.

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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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Komatsu Limited

or Komatsu (コマツ) is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures construction, mining, forestry, and military equipment, as well as industrial equipment like press machines, lasers and thermoelectric generators.

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Maputo

Maputo (formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976) is the capital and most populous city of Mozambique.

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Maputo Bay

Maputo Bay (Baía de Maputo), formerly also known as Delagoa Bay from Baía da Lagoa in Portuguese, is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Mozambique, between 25° 40' and 26° 20' S, with a length from north to south of over 90 km long and 32 km wide.

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Miss World

Miss World is the oldest running international beauty pageant.

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Miss World 1974

Miss World 1974, the 24th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 22 November 1974 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique (Moçambique or República de Moçambique) is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.

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Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga is a province of South Africa.

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Mpumalanga Black Aces F.C.

Black Aces were a South African football club that played in the Premier Soccer League.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Nkangala District Municipality

Nkangala is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa.

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Northern Sotho language

Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa), also (incorrectly) known by the name of its standardised dialect version Sepedi (or Pedi) is a Bantu language spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages.

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Pretoria

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

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Pumas (rugby team)

The Pumas (currently known as the iCollege Pumas for sponsorship reasons) are a South African rugby union team that competes in the Premier Division of the Currie Cup and the Northern Section of the Vodacom Cup.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Renova Group

Renova Group is a Russian conglomerate with interests in aluminium, oil, energy, telecoms and a variety of other sectors.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Witbank

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Witbank (Vitbanken(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Witbank in the ecclesiastical province of Johannesburg in South Africa.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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SABMiller

SABMiller plc was a multinational brewing and beverage company headquartered in Woking, England on the outskirts of London until 10 October 2016 when it was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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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 English

South African English (SAfrE, SAfrEng, SAE, en-ZA) is the set of English dialects native to South Africans.

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South African Republic

The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.

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Swazi language

The Swazi or Swati language (Swazi: siSwati) is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Swaziland and South Africa by the Swazi people.

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Tshwane University of Technology

Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is a higher education institution in South Africa that came into being through a merger of three technikons — Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria.

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Wagon

A wagon (also alternatively and archaically spelt waggon in British and Commonwealth English) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans (see below), used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people.

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White people

White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Witbank Spurs F.C.

Witbank Spurs are a South African football club based in Witbank, Mpumalanga that competes in the Premier Soccer League's National First Division.

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Xstrata

Xstrata plc was an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom.

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Zulu language

Zulu (Zulu: isiZulu) is the language of the Zulu people, with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witbank

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