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Area code. 011. A fountain and welcome sign to Boksburg in front of the East Rand Mall (Renamed: East Point Mall) Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa. Gold was discovered in Boksburg in 1887. Boksburg was named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, W. Eduard Bok.
Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only 1.5% of the country's land area, it is the most populous province in South Africa, with more than a quarter (26%) of the national population; [7] the provincial population was approximately 16.1 million, according to mid ...
The video games sector in South Africa is one of the largest video games markets and Esports scenes in Africa. [1] The video games sector has overtaken the South African market in movies and music in market value [2] and is still rapidly increasing. [3] [4] [5] In 2016 the South African games industry advocacy group, Interactive Entertainment ...
edit. Gautrain is an 80-kilometre (50-mile) higher-speed express commuter rail system in Gauteng, South Africa, which links Johannesburg, Pretoria, Kempton Park and O. R. Tambo International Airport. It takes 15 minutes to travel from Sandton to O. R. Tambo International Airport on the Gautrain and 35 minutes from Pretoria in Tshwane to Park ...
Rosebank. / 26.14528°S 28.04056°E / -26.14528; 28.04056. Rosebank is a cosmopolitan commercial and residential suburb to the north of central Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, and is the location of a Gautrain station . Rosebank has undergone a major face-lift ...
LNER Class A4 4488 Union of South Africa. LNER Class A4 4488. Union of South Africa. Union of South Africa pulls 2012 excursion train near Deeping St Nicholas. 60009 Union of South Africa is a LNER Class A4 steam locomotive built at Doncaster Works on 16 April 1937. It is one of six surviving A4s. Its mainline certification expired in April 2020.
The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, [ 1] with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. [ 2] Nearby infrastructure was damaged by the explosion.
Heidelberg, Gauteng. / 26.50056°S 28.35833°E / -26.50056; 28.35833. Heidelberg is a town with 35,500 inhabitants in the Gauteng province of South Africa, some 50 kilometres south-east of Johannesburg, close to the Mpumalanga border. It sits at the eastern end of the Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve, next to the N3 highway connecting ...