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1. Situated inland in the province of Gauteng, this city is the financial and industrial centre of South Africa. It is the largest city in the world not located on the coast, by a lake or on a navigable river?
2. Founded north of the Cape of Good Hope between Table mountain and the sea, which city was the site of the first European settlement in South Africa?
3. Named for a Boer statesman and the administrative capital city of South Africa, Winston Churchill was once imprisoned here?
4. Located inland, this was the first city in the southern hemisphere to install outside street lighting, and the home of the first stock exchange in South Africa?
5. Originally named Port Rex and located in Eastern Province at the mouth of the Buffalo River?
6. Located right next door to Johannesburg and the scene of major unrest in the 1970s, it became symbolic in the struggle against the policy of apartheid?
7. Located in Eastern Cape province and established originally as a fort by the British, this city is now the fourth largest city in the country and is known for fine beaches as well as the manufacture of cars?
8. Situated inland between Lesotho and Swaziland in the east of the country, this important railway junction on the Klip River was besieged by Boer troops for four months during the Boer War?
9. Formerly known as Port Natal and situated on South Africa's east coast, this city is a major industrial centre, as well as home to ABSA Stadium and the Sharks?
10. Situated in Free State Province, judicial capital of South Africa and major transportation hub, the failure of an important conference here in June 1899 led to the Boer War?
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