Boksburg

[ boks-burg ]

noun

1. a city in Transvaal, NE South Africa.

Example Sentences

The leak of what authorities said was a toxic nitrate gas happened Wednesday night in the informal Angelo settlement in Boksburg, a city on the eastern outskirts of Johannesburg.

From Washington Times

Boksburg is the city where 41 people died after a truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas got stuck under a bridge and exploded on Christmas Eve.

From Washington Times

Investigations were underway to determine what type of gas was involved in the Wednesday accident, Gauteng Province Premier Panyaza Lesufi told reporters as he visited the scene near Boksburg, just east of the city of Johannesburg.

From Reuters

A gas tanker explosion in Boksburg in December killed dozens of people, injured scores and destroyed houses and vehicles.

From Reuters

In December, Boksburg, a community about 30 minutes east of Johannesburg, was the site of a gas tanker explosion that killed at least 10 people, injured at least 60 others and left a scene that one person compared to a “war zone,” with twisted vehicles, clothes melted into peoples’ bodies and bystanders missing limbs.

From New York Times