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Air Tanzania set for South Africa flights

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Air Tanzania set for South Africa flights: Four local airports in Tanzania will be directly connected to O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. These are the Julius Nyerere … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. UJ student gets 15 years for bludgeoning flatmate with hammer, stabbing him: A University of Johannesburg student who killed his flatmate by bludgeoning him with a hammer before stabbing him multiple times was sentenced to … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. Mashaba mulls a 'borderless' SA: JOHANNESBURG – Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba says he will consider busing South Africans to other countries without papers, to see if the idea of … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. Man gunned down in downtown Joburg believed to be a lawyer: Johannesburg police are investigating a case of murder after a man, believed to be a lawyer, was shot dead outside a law firm in the city's central … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. Moving to Mastery: Women in Tech and Digital Conference Johannesburg event announced: The Women in Tech & Digital Conference in Cape Town was held on 12 June, at the Belmont Square Conference Centre in Rondebosch. The event … – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?

Did you know this about Johannesburg? Stone-walled ruins of Sotho–Tswana towns and villages are scattered around the parts of the former Transvaal in which Johannesburg is situated. Many of these sites contain the ruins of Sotho–Tswana mines and iron smelting furnaces, suggesting that the area was being exploited for its mineral wealth before the arrival of Europeans or the discovery of gold. The most prominent site within Johannesburg is Melville Koppies, which contains an iron smelting furnace.

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The Rand Club: Jameson Raid

The Rand Club’s history is as exclusionary as it is grand. For most of its existence, it was a bastion of white, male, British-aligned power. It was famously the “nerve center” for the Jameson Raid in 1895—a botched coup attempt against Paul Kruger’s South African Republic that served as a precursor to the devastating Second Boer War. For nearly 100 years, women were not allowed to be members, and black South Africans were permitted only as staff. The club’s refusal to modernize its membership policies led to a slow decline in the late 20th century as the “new” Johannesburg moved to Sandton. By the early 2010s, the club was facing bankruptcy, its grand halls gathering dust and its membership dwindling to a few hundred traditionalists.