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Carletonville, the Glossary

Carletonville is a town in Gauteng and the seat of the Merafong City Local Municipality in the West Rand District Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, just north of the richest gold-mining area in the world.^[1]

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Municipal seats in Gauteng
Populated places in the Merafong City Local Municipality
West Rand

Afrikaans

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

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Bantu peoples of South Africa

South African Bantu-speaking peoples represent the majority ethno-racial group of South Africans.

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Blyvooruitzicht

Blyvooruitzicht is a gold mine and gold-mining village in Gauteng, South Africa. Carletonville and Blyvooruitzicht are mining communities in South Africa and Populated places in the Merafong City Local Municipality.

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Brian McMillan

Brian Mervin McMillan (born 22 December 1963) played 38 Test matches and 78 One Day Internationals for South Africa from 1991 to 1998.

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Broomhedge

Broomhedge is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, near Lisburn, approximately 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Belfast.

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Coloureds

Coloureds (Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people.

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Consolidated Gold Fields

Consolidated Gold Fields was a British gold-mining company.

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Country

A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.

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County Antrim

County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic province of Ulster.

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Districts of South Africa

The nine provinces of South Africa are divided into 52 districts (sing. district, isifunda; isithili; distrikte; selete; kgaolo; setereke; xifundza; sigodzi; tshiṱiriki; isiyingi), which are either metropolitan or district municipalities.

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Economist

An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.

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First language

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Gauteng

Gauteng (Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; eGoli or iGoli) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.

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Guy Carleton Jones

Major-General G.C. Jones (25 December 1864 – 23 October 1950) was the 4th Canadian Surgeon General.

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Indian South Africans

Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Jaque Fourie

Jaque Fourie (born 4 March 1983) is a South African former professional rugby union player.

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Jorrie Muller

George Petrus "Jorrie" Muller, born 1 March 1981 in Fochville (South Africa), is former a South African rugby union player, who played for South Africa 6 times in 2003, his last coming during the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

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Joseph Dweba

Joseph Dweba (born 25 October 1995) is a South African professional rugby union player for in the United Rugby Championship competition.

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Kusasalethu mine

Kusasalethu (formerly Elandskraal, an amalgamation of Elandsrand and Deelkraal mines) is a gold mine on the West Wits Line near Carletonville, Gauteng, South Africa, and west of Johannesburg.

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List of municipalities in South Africa

This is a list of municipalities of South Africa.

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Merafong City Local Municipality

Merafong City Municipality (uMasipala wase Merafong City; Mmasepala wa Merafong City; Masepala wa Merafong City; Merafong City Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality in the West Rand District Municipality, in the Gauteng province of South Africa.

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Oberholzer

Oberholzer is a town in West Rand District Municipality in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Carletonville and Oberholzer are Populated places in the Merafong City Local Municipality.

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Post office box

A post office box (commonly abbreviated as P.O. box, or also known as a postal box) is a uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office.

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Postal codes in South Africa

Postal codes were introduced in South Africa on 8 October 1973, with the introduction of automated sorting.

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Provinces of South Africa

South Africa is divided into nine provinces.

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R501 (South Africa)

The R501 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects Carletonville with Viljoenskroon via Potchefstroom.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sotho language

Sotho Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in Lesotho, and South Africa where it is an official language.

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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 Standard Time

South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho.

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Telephone numbers in South Africa

South Africa switched to a closed numbering system effective 16 January 2007.

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Tswana language

Tswana, also known by its native name Setswana, and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in and indigenous to Southern Africa by about 8.2 million people.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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West Rand District Municipality

The West Rand District Municipality (Mmasepala wa Sedika wa West Rand; Wesrand-distriksmunisipaliteit; uMasipala weSithili sase West Rand; Masepala wa Setereke wa West Rand) is one of the districts of the Gauteng province of South Africa, that covers the West Rand area, with the exception of Roodepoort. Carletonville and West Rand District Municipality are west Rand.

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White South Africans

White South Africans are South Africans of European descent.

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Xhosa language

Xhosa, formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe.

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References

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

Also known as Carletonville, Gauteng.

Carletonville, the Glossary

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See also

Municipal seats in Gauteng

Populated places in the Merafong City Local Municipality

West Rand

References