Brits, North West

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Brits is a large town and district situated in a fertile, citrus-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province of South Africa. It is close to the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, which includes Pretoria and it has the same dialling code as Pretoria. In addition to being a centre for agriculture, the town is home to several heavy industries.

The town also plays an important role in the South African mining industry: 94% of South Africa's platinum comes from the Rustenburg and Brits districts, which together produce more platinum than any other single area in the world. In addition, there is a large vanadium mine in the district.

Brits was founded in 1924 on the farm Roode Kopjes (Red Hills) and was named after the owner, Gert Brits. The First Boer War armistice treaty was signed in 1864 beneath a karee tree just to the south of Brits. A speech by General Hertzog in 1912 at the nearby De Wildt railway station led to the formation of the National Party.

The De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre, renowned for its success in breeding and studying cheetah, king cheetah, brown hyena, suni, blue duiker and wild dogs is situated in the small town of De Wildt, just east of Brits.

Brits is also the birthplace of the first cloned animal in Africa, a cow [1].

The Indian area in Brits is called Primindia.

Brits is part of the Local Municipality of Madibeng.

Brits was linked to the Pretoria by the N4 Platinum Bakwena Toll Road in the early 2000s, which significantly cut travel time between Brits and the major cities of Gauteng.

As of 2006, Brits was experiencing a development boom, because of increased mining activity in the region. [2]

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50 largest cities in South Africa by population
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Citrus
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Citrus aurantifolia—Key lime
Citrus maxima—Pomelo
Citrus medica—Citron
Citrus reticulata—Mandarin & Tangerine

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Hartbeespoort Dam (officially the Hartbeespoort Dam Reservoir) is a dam situated in the North West Province of South Africa at Coordinates: .
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North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mmabatho. It was created after the end of Apartheid in 1994, and includes parts of the former Transvaal province and Cape Province, as well as most of the former Bantustan of Bophuthatswana.
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City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (also known as the City of Tshwane) is a metropolitan municipality contained in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, that includes the city of Pretoria. The municipality came into existence on 5 December 2000.
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Gauteng

Area 17,010 km²
Population (2001) 8,837,172
Languages isiZulu (21.5%)
Afrikaans (14.4%)
Sesotho (13.1%)
English (12.5%)
Races Black (73.8%)
White (19.9%)
Coloured (3.8%)
Asian (2.
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Pretoria
The central area of Pretoria viewed from the Union Buildings.

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Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam.
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4, 5, 6
(mildly basic oxide)
Electronegativity 2.28 (scale Pauling)
Ionization energies 1st: 870 kJ/mol
2nd: 1791 kJ/mol
Atomic radius 135 pm
Atomic radius (calc.
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Rustenburg (Afrikaans and Dutch: Town of Rest) is a small city situated in at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range in North West Province of South Africa.

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(amphoteric oxide)
Electronegativity 1.63 (Pauling scale)
Ionization energies
(more) 1st: 650.9 kJmol−1
2nd: 1414 kJmol−1
3rd: 2830 kJmol−1

Atomic radius 135 pm
Atomic radius (calc.
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The First Boer War (Dutch: Eerste Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Eerste Vryheidsoorlog, literally First Freedom War) also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881.
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R. lancea

Binomial name
Rhus lancea
L.

Rhus lancea L.f., commonly known as Karee (English and Afrikaans) in Hlokoshiyne (isiZulu) Umhlakotshane (amaXhosa) Mokalaabata (North Sotho).
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James Barry Munnik Hertzog, better known as JBM Hertzog (born April 3, 1866 near Wellington, Cape Colony - died November 21, 1942 in Pretoria, Union of South Africa) was a Boer general and the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939.
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Discrimination

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Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism

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Slavery · Racial profiling
Hate speech · Hate crime
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The De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre is a captive breeding facility for cheetahs and other animals that is situated in the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountain range (near Brits and the Hartbeespoort Dam) in the North West Province of South Africa.
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Acinonyx
Brookes, 1828

Species: A. jubatus

Binomial name
Acinonyx jubatus
(Schreber, 1775)

Type species
Acinonyx venator
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Hyaenidae
Gray, 1821

Subfamilies and Genera
  • Hyaeninae
  • Crocuta
  • Hyaena
  • Parahyaena

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N. moschatus

Binomial name
Neotragus moschatus

For the Italian commune, see Suni.
Suni (Neotragus moschatus) is a very small species of antelope.
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Cephalophinae
Gray, 1871

Genera

Cephalophus
Sylvicapra

A duiker is any of about 19 small to medium-sized antelope species native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Lycaon
Brookes, 1827

Species: L. pictus

Binomial name
Lycaon pictus
(Temminck, 1820)


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Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of something. In biology, it collectively refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms.
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Asians in South Africa constitute two per cent of South Africa's population, and most are of Indian origin, although there is also a small Chinese community (sometimes classified as Coloured (mixed race) or White under Apartheid) [1] .
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The N4 is an arterial route which forms the South African section of the Walvis Bay to Maputo highway, which links the east and west coasts of Southern Africa. Since the completion of the Trans Kgalagadi Highway through Botswana, the entire route is now a world-class standard
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