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Brakpan

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Brakpan (brăk`păn), city (1991 pop. 130,463), Gauteng, NE South Africa. It is a gold- and coal-mining center and has an ironworks. There is also a technical college in the city.
Brakpan
a city in E South Africa: gold-mining centre. Pop.: 62 116 (2001)

Brakpan 

a city in the Republic of South Africa, in Transvaal Province. Population, 76,500 (1967), chiefly Africans. Brakpan is one of the centers of the Witwatersrand gold-mining region. There are metalworking enterprises and a technical college.



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1) I was raised in Brakpan Old Location, where I started school, and in Payneville.
The Brakpan Mines 27-year-old is a South Africa international, but with no experience in this sphere he could really struggle against a player of Smith's ability.
For example, in the Western Cape Province, 37% of smears in Montagu (1996) and 50% in Mitchell's Plain (1998) were in the appropriate age group; (24,25) compared to 84% of smears in Mitchell's Plain and 70% in Brakpan (Gauteng province) in 2002.
 
 
 
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