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How working on Cassper Nyovest’s ‘Siyathandana’ changed Boohle’s life

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. How working on Cassper Nyovest’s ‘Siyathandana’ changed Boohle’s life: Boohle is one of South Africa’s most promising voices. Her vocals on Cassper’s ‘Siyathandana’ rocked SA and she’s getting a lot of attention. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. DIDG seek NRZ deal revival: THE Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) has pleaded with the Government to consider resuscitating its US$ 400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Willard Katsande Set For Kaizer Chiefs Exit: Spread This NewsBy Sports Reporter FORMER Warriors captain Willard Katsande is set to end his decade long career at South African Premiership giants Kaizer Chiefs after the Soweto giants opted against … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Dividend Declaration: As set out in Vivo Energy plc Half Year 2021 Results announcement released earlier today, the Company is pleased to declare an interim dividend in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2021 of … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. VIVO ENERGY PLC – Dividend Declaration: Dividend Declaration. Vivo Energy plc (Incorporated in England and Wales) (Registration number: 11250655) (Share code: VVO) LEI: 213800TR7V9QN896AU56 ISIN: GB00BDGT2M75. 27 July 2 … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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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.