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Experience Northern Cape Namakwa Challenge pres by Billabong Adventure Division

MyPR: Experience Northern Cape Namakwa Challenge pres by Billabong Adventure Division:

The countdown starts now for the Experience Northern Cape Namakwa Challenge pres. by Billabong Adventure Division.

The #namakwachallenge is a @wsl.qs specialty event by @amandlasurffoundation , featuring 20 invited surfers in one of the most rugged locations in South Africa.

With a R45k first prize on offer and the chance to push themselves in heavy conditions, the event has seen surfers eager to compete, led by current SA Open Champion @joshefaulkner and big wave legend @mattbromleysurf . Headline Sponsor @northerncapetourism want more surfers to come and explore the Namakwa coastline and the event is working with @protectthewestcoast to ensure their footprint is light and they shed light on the mission to save the coastline from mining.

Presenting partner @billabong inspired the event through their Challenge events in the 90’s. #experiencenortherncape #travelnortherncape #holidayherethisyear #travellocallythisyear #protectthewestcoast @billabong_sa @captainkaisworld @dutchiesurfdesigns @luq_bru@alanvangysen @ianthurtell @jonty.andrews @simomkhize97 @troywells_creative
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Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?

Did you know this about Johannesburg? The Albert Hertzog Tower in Brixton Johannesburg was completed in 1962. It is 237-metre-high (778 ft) high concrete radio and (now) television tower. The first transmission took place on 22 December 1961. Presently 18 FM programs and 7 TV stations are broadcast from there. When Albert Hertzog fell into disfavour with the government, it was called the Brixton Tower. At present it is called the Sentech Tower.

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The Randlord Mansions: History

The history of these mansions is also a story of urban warfare and preservation. In the 1960s and 70s, as Johannesburg expanded, many of the original Parktown estates were ruthlessly demolished to make way for the M1 Highway and the massive concrete campus of the Wits University Medical School. The “Parktown War” saw heritage activists fighting the bulldozers to save what remained of the city’s architectural soul. Today, several of the surviving mansions serve as corporate headquarters, schools, or museums, stripped of their private domesticity but preserved as monuments to a gilded age.

Interestingly, these mansions also played a secret role in the city’s political evolution. It was in the drawing rooms of Parktown that the “progressive” mining elite would meet to discuss the future of the country, often finding themselves at odds with the more conservative Boer government. Lady Florence Phillips, in particular, used her influence to found the Johannesburg Art Gallery, insisting that a world-class city needed world-class culture, not just gold bars. Today, walking the “Heritage Trail” through Parktown offers a haunting contrast; you stand in the quiet, manicured gardens of the victors, looking down at the pulsing, crowded city that their gold mines created. It is the ultimate “view from the top,” a reminder that the extreme wealth of Sandton today has its DNA rooted in the stone-and-timber palaces of the 1900s.