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Baby son of Springboks great dies in tragic drowning

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Baby son of Springboks great dies in tragic drowning: The 10-month son of South African rugby star Jannie du Plessis has died in an accidental drowning at the family home near Johannesburg.  Jan Nathaniël’s de … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. SEE International Provides Essential and Transformative Eye Care and Surgery Around the World: Host doctors in underserved locations around the world invite SEE ophthalmologists, optometrists, and eye care professionals to work side-by-side in providing sight-restoring surgeries … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Former Orlando Pirates star behind bars for alleged house robbery!: A former Orlando Pirates star has reportedly been arrested for an alleged house robbery which occurred in Lombardy East. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. LGE 2021: The lighter (or larger) side: The lighter (or larger) side. 9 November 2021. The elections that nobody really wanted are over. The IEC was desperate to have the election date postpone … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Rugby great’s 10-month-old son killed in backyard drowning tragedy: South African rugby star Jannie du Plessis has been rocked by the tragic drowning death of his 10-month old son. The former Springboks player was reportedly celebrating his 39th birthday on Wednesday … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? Where Johannesburg got it’s name from: The fledgling town of Johannesburg was laid out on a triangular wedge of “uitvalgrond” (area excluded when the farms were surveyed) named Randjeslaagte, situated between the farms Doornfontein to the east, Braamfontein to the west and Turffontein to the south. The property belonged to the government. The Surveyor-General of the ZAR issued an instruction that the farm be surveyed as a township, consisting of 600 stands measuring fifty feet by fifty feet. The first auction of stands took place on 8 December 1886. The settlement was named after two officials of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), Christiaan Johannes Joubert and Johannes Rissik, who both worked in land surveying and mapping. The two men combined the name they shared, adding ‘burg’, the archaic Afrikaans word for ‘fortified city’.

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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.