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JMPD's new undercover unit to tackle crime

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. JMPD's new undercover unit to tackle crime: JOHANNESBURG – The Johannesburg Metro Police Department has launched an undercover unit aimed at tackling crime and corruption within the … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. Lions Captain Whiteley under injury cloud again: The Johannesburg side have had an up-and-down season so far, winning six of their 11 matches, while they are second from bottom of the South … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. City of Johannesburg tells Alexandra inquiry that it is delivering: It is not true that the level of service delivery has dropped in embattled Alexandra, the City of Johannesburg has told the SA Human Rights … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. Alex inquiry: City of Joburg refutes residents' claims: Armed with slick presentations the City of Johannesburg has been at pains to explain to the residents of South Africa's oldest township why their lives … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. Alexandra hasn't been neglected, Joburg city manager tells SAHRC inquiry: JOHANNESBURG – Johannesburg city manager Ndivhoniswani Lukhwareni has dismissed claims the administration is not providing services in … – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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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.