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| | Gauteng Province: Information From Answers.com |
 | | Gauteng Province is home to 8.8 million people (2001 South Afrcan National Census), almost 20% of the total South African population. | | | Situated in the heart of the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa with only 1.4% of the land area, but it is highly urbanised and has a population of 8,837,178 (2001 South African National Census), the second-largest after KwaZulu-Natal. | | | Gauteng Province is also the fastest growing province, experiencing a population growth of over 20% between the 1996 and 2001 censuses, thus Gauteng is likely to soon have the highest population of any province in South Africa. |
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| | African American Labor History Links |
| | African Americans and the American Labor Movement — by James Gilbert Cassedy, Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration, Summer 1997, vol. | | | Census Bureau Facts on the Black/African American Population — statistics on the economic and social status of African Americans today. | | | African-Americans, Labor and Society: Organizing for a New Agenda — edited by Patrick L. Mason, Wayne State University Press, 2001 |
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| | Johannesburg: Weather and Much More From Answers.com |
| | According to the 2001 South African National Census, the population of Johannesburg is 3,225,812 people, who live in 1,006,930 formal households, of which 86% have a flush or chemical toilet, and 91% have refuse removed by the municipality at least once a week. | | | The South African government then instituted a system of forced removals, moving the black and coloured population into specified areas.It is this system that created the sprawling shantytown of Soweto (South Western Townships), one of the areas where Blacks were forced to live during the Apartheid era. | | | Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng Province, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and the site of the South African Constitutional Court. |
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| | Northern Sotho language - encyclopedia article about Northern Sotho language. |
| | Situated in the heart of the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa with only 1.4% of the land area, but it is highly urbanised and has a population of 8,837,178 (2001 South African National Census), the second-largest after KwaZulu-Natal. | | | Northern Sotho, or "Sesotho sa Leboa", is one of the official languages of South Africa Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of the African continent. | | | South Africa Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of the African continent. |
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| | CONK! Encyclopedia: Johannesburg |
| | According to the 2001 South African National Census, the population of Johannesburg is 3,225,812 people, who live in 1,006,930 formal households, of which 86% have a flush or chemical toilet, and 91% have refuse removed by the municipality at least once a week. | | | Rand Airport, located in Germiston, is a small airfield used mostly for private aircraft and the home of South African Airways 's first Boeing 747 Classic, the Lebombo, which is now an aviation museum. | | | On the western edge of Hillbrow is Constitution Hill, the seat of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. |
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| | South Africa - encyclopedia article about South Africa. |
| | Northern Sotho, Sepedi, or "Sesotho sa Leboa", is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by 4,208,980 people (2001 Census Data), mostly in the provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga. | | | Political parties (African Christian Democrats, African National Congress, Azanian People's Organisation, Democratic Alliance, Inkatha Freedom, Independent Democrats, Minority Front, New National, Pan Africanist Congress, Communists, Freedom Front+, United Christian Democrats, United Democratic Movement) | | | The label "coloured" is a contentious one, but still largely used for the people of mixed race descended from slaves brought in from the East and central Africa, the indigenous Khoisan who lived in the Cape at the time, indigenous African blacks and whites. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Johannesburg, South Africa |
| | Johannesburg has a population of more than three million ( 2001 South African National Census). | | | Johannesburg is located in the eastern plateau area of South Africa, known as the Highveld, at an elevation of 1753 metres (5751 feet), which enjoys a dry, sunny climate with the exception of occasional late afternoon downpours from the months of October to April. | | | Johannesburg is also the centre of the gold and diamond trade in South Africa, due to its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand. |
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| | Map Zones : Central African Republic Map |
| | The population of the Central African Republic was determined by the census of 1975 to be 2,054,610; the 2001 estimated population was 3,576,884. | | | Central African Republic (CAR), landlocked republic in central Africa, bordered on the north by Chad, on the east by Sudan, on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, and on the west by Cameroon. | | | French is the official language, but Sango, an African language, is the most commonly spoken. |
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| | Alberton, Gauteng - encyclopedia article about Alberton, Gauteng. |
| | Situated in the heart of the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa with only 1.4% of the land area, but it is highly urbanised and has a population of 8,837,178 (2001 South African National Census), the second-largest after KwaZulu-Natal. | | | in Gauteng Gauteng is a province of South Africa. | | | Alberton is a typical bedroom community A bedroom community, dormitory town, or commuter town is a town or city that is primarily residential in character, with most of its residents commuting to a nearby town or city to earn their livelihood. |
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| | Gauteng Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Situated in the heart of the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa with only 1.4% of the land area, but it is highly urbanised and has a population of 8,837,178 (2001 South African National Census), the second-largest after KwaZulu-Natal. | | | In the province 14.4% of residents speak Afrikaans at home, 12.5% speak English, 1.9% speak IsiNdebele, 7.6% speak IsiXhosa, 21.5% speak IsiZulu, 10.7% speak Sepedi, 13.1% speak Sesotho, 8.4% speak Setswana, 1.4% speak SiSwati, 1.7% speak Tshivenda, and 5.7% speak Xitsonga. | | | The name Gauteng comes from the Sesotho phrase meaning Place of Gold, referring to the thriving gold industry in the province following the 1886 discovery of gold in Johannesburg. |
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