Benoni, town in northeastern South Africa, in Gauteng Province, in the Witwatersrand gold-mining region, near Johannesburg. In addition to the gold-processing industry, brass and iron foundries and jute mills are important to the local economy, and electrical equipment is manufactured here. The municipality, organized in 1907, was a center of the violent Witwatersrand miners' strike of 1922. Population (1991) 103,501.Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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