Peter Maltitz Anderson (30 September 1879, in

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– 5 November 1954) was a South African mining engineer. He was president of the

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in 1925, 1930, 1933, 1937 and 1940/1.

Union Corporation

He was managing director of the

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Ltd.

Personal life

He received an honorary Doctorate of Science in Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1930. He was married to Annie-Laurie Hamilton and had three children, Colin, Peter and Adrienne, until her death in 1918. He married again to Evelyn Elizabeth Anderson (née Gatheral) and had two children, Russell and Stephen. He named the town of

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after her. Anderson died in

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