Germiston

[jur-muh-stuhn]

noun

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

Germiston

/ 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)

Example Sentences

The 1344 capacity prison in the Germiston area will add 357 places to the overall prison estate, in an attempt to solve problems with overcrowding plaguing Scotland's jails.

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The pupil allegedly used his father's gun in Friday's shooting at a primary school in Germiston, east of the main city of Johannesburg.

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

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A mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.

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Some 400 ampoules - equivalent to about 2,400 doses - containing the fake vaccine were found at a warehouse in Germiston, east of Johannesburg, where officers also recovered a large quantity of fake 3M masks, the agency said on Wednesday on its website.

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