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Germiston

American  
[jur-muh-stuhn] / ˈdʒɜr mə stən /

noun

  1. a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.


Germiston British  
/ ˈdʒɜːmɪstən /

noun

  1. a city in South Africa, southeast of Johannesburg: industrial centre, with the world's largest gold refinery, serving the Witwatersrand mines. Pop: 139 721 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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An ambulance rushed him to the Bertha Gxowa Hospital in nearby Germiston.

From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2023

Brenner, born in Germiston, South Africa, in 1927, earned his PhD from the University of Oxford, UK.

From Nature ● Apr. 9, 2019

Brenner, born in Germiston, South Africa, in 1927, spent much of his early career in the United Kingdom, earning his PhD from the University of Oxford.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2019

Sydney Brenner was born Jan. 13, 1927, in Germiston, South Africa, to Jewish emigre parents from Eastern Europe.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019

In Germiston, a township southeast of the city, Joshua Makue, chairman of our local branch, ran a school for eight hundred boy-cotting children that lasted for three years.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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