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Is Parks Tau heading to national government?

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Is Parks Tau heading to national government?: Tau had resigned as a Johannesburg councillor soon after it became clear that the ANC had secured enough votes during the May 8 elections in … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. Rodrigues to hear his fate in stay of prosecution application on Friday: A full Bench of judges from the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg is expected to deliver judgment. Rodrigues is accused of involvement in the … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. Digital Designer: We are a Johannesburg based digital advertising studio with a strong focus on online campaigns, brand identities, interactive websites and … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. Research activists at Mandela Mining Precinct deserve strong support: JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Following a period of marked disintegration of mining research in South Africa, there is now a positive new … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. State attorney's staff walk through raw sewage 'to work in unsafe building': … unhealthy and hazardous conditions at a building occupied by the state attorney in the Johannesburg CBD where staff are greeted by raw sewage. – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? The region surrounding Johannesburg was originally inhabited by San people. They were hunter-gatherers who used stone tools. There is evidence that they lived there up to ten centuries ago. By the 13th century, groups of Bantu-speaking people started moving southwards from central Africa and encroached on the indigenous San population.

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The Maboneng Precinct: A “Place of Light” in the Urban Core

The word Maboneng means “Place of Light” in Sotho, and it is an apt name for a neighborhood that rose from the literal and figurative shadows of Johannesburg’s inner-city decay. Located on the eastern edge of the Central Business District (CBD) in a sub-district once known as City and Suburban, this area was historically a collection of light-industrial warehouses and gritty manufacturing plants. During the 1990s and early 2000s, as capital flight saw businesses flee the city center for the fortified suburbs of Sandton and Rosebank, these blocks became a “no-go zone” characterized by hijacked buildings, crime, and urban flight.