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As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
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Meaning of "Witwatersrand" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WITWATERSRAND

Witwatersrand  [wɪtˈwɔːtəzˌrænd] play
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WHAT DOES WITWATERSRAND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Witwatersrand

Witwatersrand

The Witwatersrand is a 56 km long north facing scarp in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion resistant quartzite sedimentary rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which account for the name “Witwatersrand” meaning the “ridge of white waters” in Afrikaans. This east-west running scarp can be traced with only one short gap from Bedfordview in the east, through Johannesburg and Roodepoort, to Krugersdorp in the west. The scarp forms the northern edge of a 7–10 km wide plateau which rises about 200 m above the surrounding plains of the Highveld. The entire plateau-like structure is also often called the “Witwatersrand”. The plateau’s elevation above sea-level is between 1700–1800 m. The Witwatersrand plateau forms a continental divide with the run-off to the north draining into the Indian Ocean via the Crocodile and Limpopo Rivers, while the run-off to the south drains via the Vaal into the Orange River and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean.

Definition of Witwatersrand in the English dictionary

The definition of Witwatersrand in the dictionary is a rocky ridge in NE South Africa: contains the richest gold deposits in the world, also coal and manganese; chief industrial centre is Johannesburg. Height: 1500–1800 m Also called: the Rand, the Reef.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WITWATERSRAND


astrand
əˈstrænd
brand
brænd
doctorand
ˈdɒktərænd
firebrand
ˈfaɪəˌbrænd
glitterand
ˈɡlɪtəˌrænd
grand
ɡrænd
Hildebrand
ˈhɪldəˌbrænd
honorand
ˈɒnəˌrænd
integrand
ˈɪntɪˌɡrænd
interstrand
ˈɪntəˌstrænd
Krugerrand
ˈkruːɡəˌrænd
misbrand
ˌmɪsˈbrænd
nonbrand
ˌnɒnˈbrænd
operand
ˈɒpəˌrænd
own-brand
ˌəʊnˈbrænd
rand
rænd
rebrand
riːˈbrænd
seastrand
ˈsiːˌstrænd
strand
strænd
surturbrand
ˈsɜːtəˌbrænd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WITWATERSRAND

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Witt
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Wittenberg
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Wittgenstein
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WORDS THAT END LIKE WITWATERSRAND

baby grand
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Clermont-Ferrand
concert grand
errand
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fool´s errand
home brand
Mitterrand
own brand
power brand
proprietary brand
surtarbrand
tarand
the Strand

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Витватерсранда
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Witwatersrand

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Teresa Heinz
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WITWATERSRAND»

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Mineral Deposits and Earth Evolution
Gold mineralization within the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: evidence for a modified placer origin, and the role of the Vredefort impact event C. L. HAYWARD12, W. U REIMOLD2, R. L. GIBSON2 & L. J. ROBB3 1 Department of Earth ...
Dr. Iain McDonald, Geological Society of London, 2005
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Research in the Witwatersrand Basin: our foremost economic ...
Phase 2 It was realised in the late 1940s that the Witwatersrand gold-bearing strata might be confined to an ancient drainage-basin. Although sedimentological observations had been made by various geologists it was only in 1959 that the first ...
W. E. L. Minter, University of Cape Town, 1984
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Evolution of Early Earth's Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and ...
Wyatt Ernest Lawrence Minter Department of Geosciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa ABSTRACT The 3.05 Ga U-Pb dating of uraninite grains in Dominion and Witwatersrand conglomerates has established  ...
Stephen E. Kesler, Hiroshi Ohmoto, 2006
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Processes on the Early Earth
Poujol, M., Robb, L.J., and Respaut, J.P., 1998, U-Pb and Pb-Pb isotopic studies relating to the origin of gold mineralization in the Evander goldfield, Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: University of the Witwatersrand, Economic Geology ...
W. U. Reimold, Roger Lawrence Gibson, 2006
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Extracting the Science: A Century of Mining Research
Ph.D. Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Handley, M.F. 1987. A study of the effect of mining induced stresses on a fault ahead of an advancing longwall face in a deep level gold mine. M.Sc. Thesis, University ...
Jürgen F. Brune, 2010
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
vaal, and Ventersdorp systems to reach the gold-bearing conglomerates of the Witwatersrand system. The output of osmiridium from the Witwatersrand, in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, has remained sensibly constant since 1925, and ...
‎1969
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
FACTOR 1 (Co, Ni, Pb) EXPLANATION □ Authigenic Witwatersrand pyrites Allogenic Witwatersrand pyrites Primary pyrites Figure 6. - Scatter diagram of the factor loading values. sample, F III, exhibits a certain affinity to the data points of the ...
‎1981
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Developmental Psychology
She was a senior lecturer in the psychology department at the University of the Witwatersrand where she ran the Clinical Psychology Professional Training programme for six years. Her primary academic interests are within the arena of ...
Jacki Watts, Kate Cockcroft, Norman Duncan (Ph. D.), 2009
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The Mining Industry: Evidence and Report of the Industrial ...
Evidence and Report of the Industrial Commission of Enquiry The Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines. PAGE. Wages, miners', difference in, on the Band and in parts of America. 151 Wages on the mines of Montana, U.S.A. 157 Wages on the ...
The Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines, 2013
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Herbaceous Plant Ecology: Recent Advances in Plant Ecology
maintenance of the grassland biome on the Witwa- tersrand (Kerfoot 1987) and thus it is expected that cryptophytes and hemicryptophytes, with their buds protected below the soil surface, will be the dominant life forms on the Witwatersrand.
A. G. Van der Valk, Arnoud van der Valk, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WITWATERSRAND»

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South African sites reveal more about early modern human culture
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa—Two of South Africa's most famous archaeological sites, Sibudu and Blombos, have revealed that ... «Popular Archaeology, Jul 15»
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Public Release: 7-Jul-2015 Mass extinction event from South …
An international team led by researchers from the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has obtained an age ... «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
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New study shows South Africans using milk-based paint 49000 …
An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has discovered a ... «CU Boulder News & Events, Jul 15»
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Sefapanosaurus: New Dinosaur Found in South Africa
Image credit: University of the Witwatersrand / Sci-News.com. ... and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, lead author on the study published in ... «Sci-News.com, Jun 15»
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Coffee production slipping in Tanzania as temperatures rise
According to a study conducted by the University of Witwatersrand, researchers have established that higher night-time temperatures are the main factor behind ... «Business Insider, Apr 15»
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University of the Witwatersrand
VIDEO: Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have demonstrated that laser light traveling along a helical path through space, can ... «EurekAlert, Apr 15»
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Stinky Sulfurous Air Created South Africa's Gold
South Africa's Witwatersrand contains some of the highest concentrations of gold in the world. Where exactly did that gold come from? A scientist at ETH Zurich ... «Tech Times, Feb 15»
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​Scientists narrow down how Witwatersrand gold deposits formed
New research is attempting to reconcile the many varying theories on how the world's largest gold deposits, in South Africa's Witwatersrand, formed. The new ... «Australian Mining, Feb 15»
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Earth's biggest gold hoard in South Africa was formed by ancient …
Gold was discovered in South Africa's Witwatersrand Basin in 1886, and, since then, around half of all gold mined throughout the world has originated from that ... «International Business Times UK, Feb 15»
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Ancient microbes formed Earth's biggest hoard of gold
Approximately 40,000 metric tonnes of gold have been mined from the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa since its discovery in 1886. That's three times more ... «New Scientist, Feb 15»

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