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Erasmus to tour with Springboks as misconduct hearing looms

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Erasmus to tour with Springboks as misconduct hearing looms: JOHANNESBURG: Controversial South Africa director of rugby Rassie Erasmus plans to tour Britain with the world champion Springboks next month, head coach Jacques Nienaber confirmed on Wednesday (Oct … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Cyril Ramaphosa and Julius Malema head to Western Cape as campaigning for local government elections heats up: Johannesburg – The ANC and EFF are sending the big guns to the Western Cape with President Cyril Ramaphosa and red berets leader Julius Malema campaigning in the province in an attempt to loosen the … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Warring Soweto taxi associations agree to ‘ceasefire’: The two warring Soweto taxi associations have again agreed to a ceasefire. But no peace deal has been signed just yet, according to the Gauteng Roads and Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo who met the two … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. SA records 80 COVID fatalities as death toll rises to 88,754: Over the past 24 hours, 591 more tests also came back positive, with the country’s known caseload since the start of the coronavirus pandemic at over 2.9 million. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Power restored to Johannesburg south: Large parts of Southern Johannesburg are without electricity this morning. That’s after the Robertsham substation caught fire last night. Twitter/@Abramjee JOHANNESBURG – Power has been restored to … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? While Johannesburg is also known as the City of Gold, or ‘eGoli’ because of its beginnings as a gold-mining town, it is known fondly to locals by the shortened ‘Joburg’, or now more popularly as ‘Jozi’.

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The Carlton Centre: A Monument of Concrete and Contradiction

Rising 223 meters into the Highveld sky, the Carlton Centre was for nearly half a century the undisputed “king” of the African skyline. Completed in 1973, it held the title of the tallest building in Africa for 46 years—a reign that only ended in 2019 with the completion of The Leonardo in Sandton. It was designed by the prestigious American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (the same minds behind the Burj Khalifa and Chicago’s Willis Tower), and its brutalist, reinforced concrete design was intended to be a “city within a city,” a symbol of South Africa’s then-booming industrial and mining economy.