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Man posing as City Power official arrested for soliciting R7k bribe

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Man posing as City Power official arrested for soliciting R7k bribe: JOHANNESBURG – A man posing as a City Power official has been arrested for soliciting a R7, 000 bribe from a resident in Lenasia south. – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. JSA faces tough questions during application for leave to appeal against Seth Nthai's readmission: Lawyers for the Johannesburg Society of Advocates faced tough questions from the Limpopo High Court judges on Friday morning in an application … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. Rand rattled by stronger US payrolls data, South African stocks slip: JOHANNESBURG, July 5 (Reuters) – The rand slumped on Friday as data showing U.S. job growth rebounded strongly in June sent the dollar sharply … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. Ramaphosa: S.Africa must not let economy be held back by US-China trade war: JOHANNESBURG, July 5 (Reuters) – President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday that South Africa cannot allow its economy to be held back by the … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. How Nakhane Touré, the South African Singer, Embraced His Queerness to Become an …: (Much of it is sourced from the talented young Johannesburg designer Rich Mnisi, a contemporary of Nakhane's.) Yet his voice resonates in other … – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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Have you tried: Reach Trust for Solar and Building Management?

Did you know this about Johannesburg? The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein. Other farms to become famous later included Langlaagte, Turffontein, Doornfontein and Braamfontein. George Harrison is today credited as the man who discovered an outcrop of the Main Reef of gold on the farm Langlaagte in February 1886. On 12 May 1886 Harrison and his partner, George Walker, entered into a prospecting agreement with the owner of Langlaagte, one G.C. Oosthuizen. Two days later Colonel Ignatius Ferreira staked out his camp on Turffontein to serve as a centre for diggers.

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The Randlord Mansions: Palaces of the Mining Elite

The move to Parktown began in the 1890s, led by the likes of Sir Lionel Phillips and his wife, Lady Florence Phillips. They sought a location that was close enough to the gold mines for business but high enough to catch the clean breezes of the Highveld. The result was a neighborhood of architectural opulence that had no equal in the Southern Hemisphere. These were not mere houses; they were sprawling estates designed by the most famous architects of the British Empire, including Sir Herbert Baker, who brought a “Cape Dutch-meets-Arts-and-Crafts” aesthetic to the rocky ridges of Johannesburg.