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  1. Goldmining town in Transvaal, South Africa,
  2. 15 km/9 mi W of Johannesburg, at an altitude
  3. of 1,745 m/5,725 ft; population (1980)
  4. 165,315. Leander Starr Jameson and his
  5. followers surrendered here in 1896 after an
  6. attempt to overthrow the government.
  7.