Witwatersrand
Americannoun
noun
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In South Africa, according to the University of Witwatersrand, the top 0.1 percent owned over a quarter of wealth.
From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025
About a year after Ezra’s find, the mining town of Randsburg sprang up around a big gold find — the town and the mine named optimistically for the immense Witwatersrand gold fields in South Africa.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025
Other interpretations focus on the spiritual, rather than social, importance of the animals, said Sam Challis, who heads the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024
Smit is now based at the University of the Witwatersrand where she is part of a team developing a new isotope lab and methodologies so that diamond inclusion analyses can ultimately be conducted at Wits.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023
He was a professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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