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Vereeniging (fərē`nĭkhĭng) [Afrik.,=union], city (1991 pop. 345,000), Gauteng, NE South Africa on the Vaal River. An industrial center, its chief products are iron, steel, pipes, bricks and tiles, and processed lime and coal. Thermal power plants there supply electricity to nearby goldfields. The city, founded in 1892, owed its early growth to nearby coal mines. The Treaty of Vereeniging (1902), which ended the South African War South African War or Boer War, 1899–1902, war of the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State against Great Britain.
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Vereeniging

a city in E South Africa: scene of the signing (1902) of the treaty ending the Boer War. Pop.: 79 630 (2001)

Vereeniging

a city in the Republic of South Africa, in Transvaal Province, on the Vaal River. Population, 169,900 (1970). The city is a railroad junction and a center for coal mining and ferrous metallurgy. It has tube-rolling factories, chemical factories, and plants for the production of mining equipment and agricultural machinery. Vereeniging was founded in 1892.

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