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Johannesburg CBD shop owners condemned for violent attacks on police

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Johannesburg CBD shop owners condemned for violent attacks on police: The South African Policing Union (Sapu) has condemned the attack on members of the South African Police Service and Johannesburg Metro police. – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. How to navigate Johannesburg's urban jungle: Mural by South African artist Falko One on Betty Street, Maboneng. Most visitors to South Africa will transit through the country's biggest city on their … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. In a safe haven for elephants, ivory poachers are making inroads: JOHANNESBURG — Ivory poaching increased in Botswana during a time when the country was praised for protecting the world's biggest African … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. 'Court failed to recognise Nthai's conduct amounted to corrupt, criminal solicitation of a bribe' – JSA: The Johannesburg Society of Advocates (JSA) has filed an application for leave to appeal against a Limpopo High Court ruling in favour of Seth Nthai … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. African Development Funding Group Announces Partnership With Apollo Currency: JOHANNESBURG, June 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The ADF Group announces its partnership with Apollo Currency. The ADF, with its mandate of … – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?

Did you know this about Johannesburg? Johannesburg is the world’s largest city not built on a coastline, or on a lake or river. That’s why Joburg is also called the world’s biggest ‘dry port’. More than half of the cargo that arrives through the ports of Durban and Cape Town arrives at the container terminal at City Deep.

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Museum Africa: The Memory of the Market

Long before it was a sanctuary for artifacts, this building was the Johannesburg Municipal Fruit and Vegetable Market, completed in 1913. At the time, it was an architectural marvel of the industrial age, featuring a massive, vaulted roof supported by reinforced concrete and steel—a design intended to keep the produce cool in the biting Highveld sun. The site was chosen for its proximity to the railway lines, allowing fresh goods from across Southern Africa to be funneled directly into the heart of the city. For decades, it was a place of frantic, multi-racial commerce where the air was thick with the smell of citrus and the shouts of auctioneers. In 1994—the same year South Africa held its first democratic elections—the market was transformed into Museum Africa, symbolically turning a site of physical sustenance into one of intellectual and historical nourishment.