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Benoni, Gauteng Benoni is a town in Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. Benoni was also the setting for the MTV-inspired movie ''Crazy Monkey: Straight Outta Benoni'', released internationally in 2005. People from Benoni *Urzila Carlson, New Zeal ...

, a town in the

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality The City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of the East Rand region of Gauteng. The municipality itself is a large suburban region east of Johannesburg. The name ''Ekurhuleni'' m ...

, in the East Rand region of

Gauteng Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...

province in South Africa * Benoni, a barangay in

Mahinog Mahinog, officially the Municipality of Mahinog, is a 5th class municipality in the province of Camiguin, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 14,634 people. It is bounded in the north by the town of Mambajao, on the ...

, Camiguin, Philippines

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Benoni (given name) Benoni is the original name of the biblical Benjamin. It is the given name of: * Benoni Aubert (1768–1832), Norwegian surveyor and soldier * Benoni Beheyt (born 1940), Belgian former road bicycle racer * Benoni Danks (c. 1710–1776), officer ...

, a list of people *

Giuseppe Benoni Giuseppe Benoni (1618–1684) was an Italian architect, active during the Baroque period, mainly in Venice. Biography He was born either in Udine or Trento. He worked on a number of engineering problems for the Venetian Republic. He appears to hav ...

(1618–1684), Italian architect

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Benoni Premier United Thanda Royal Zulu was a South African football club based in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal. History The club started after a Swedish consortium that included Sven-Goran Eriksson bought the franchise from Benoni Premier United at the end of the 20 ...

, a South African football club *

Benoni Commando Benoni Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South African Territorial Reserve. History Origin Operations Under the UDF =Rebel Commando= Me ...

, a former light infantry regiment of the South African Army *

Benoni Defense The Benoni Defense is a chess opening characterized by an early reply of ...c5 against White's opening move 1.d4. Most commonly, it is reached by the sequence: :1. b:Chess Opening Theory/1. d4, d4 b:Chess Opening Theory/1. d4/1...Nf6, Nf6 :2. b:Ch ...

, a chess opening * ''Benoni'' (novel), a 1908 novel by Knut Hamsun * Benoni, original name of Benjamin, son of Jacob in the Bible

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