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FlightSite booking data reveals popular destinations for SA travellers

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. FlightSite booking data reveals popular destinations for SA travellers: The data gives insight into the top five local and overseas destinations South Africans are flying to as air travel makes a comeback ahead of the peak travel … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Audi opens pre-orders for EV range: Audi’s full e-tron range is due to retail during the first quarter of 2022, and potential buyers can now reserve their model of preference through a new Audi e-tron Dealer Network … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. LIVESTREAM: Bathabile Dlamini on trial for perjury: Former Social Development Minister, Bathabile Dlamini is accused of giving false evidence, during an inquiry into her role in the social grants crisis. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Black Friday | Consumers urged to shop safely online: Consumers are encouraged to take a closer look at the websites they are browsing – and how they are paying for products. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. SA’s DA becoming dominant over ANC: SA’s DA becoming dominant over ANC – Wirtschaft – South Africa’s largest opposition party won mayoral posts in three major cities in the country’s… – Allgemeine Zeitung … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? It’s home to almost half the world’s human ancestor fossils: The Cradle of Humankind is home to 40% of the planet’s human fossils, making it one of the richest archaeological sites in the world.

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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.