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Monaco’s Princess Charlene stable after collapsing in South Africa

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Monaco’s Princess Charlene stable after collapsing in South Africa: JOHANNESBURG • Princess Charlene of Monaco was in stable condition on Friday after collapsing and being hospitalised in South Africa, where she has been living for the better part of this year, days … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Liliesleaf board flays CEO in funding row: The Rivonia, Johannesburg, farm where Nelson Mandela once hid from security police and which served as the underground headquarters of the liberation movement is at the centre of a new struggle as its … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Chorus of complaint over composer Lebo M’s Joburg property: Lion King composer Lebo Morake has his neighbours roaring in protest as they accuse him of turning their Glenvista suburb in Johannesburg into an eyesore. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa: Unknown to his millions of admirers, London-based Zimbabwean billionaire businessman and philanthropist, Strive Masiyiwa, has contributed a statistic of his own to the database of journalists who were … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. DailyMail.com wins apology from Facebook for AI fail that labelled website’s news video of black men being harassed and arrested as ‘primates’: Facebook has publicly apologized to DailyMail.com and MailOnline for adding an AI-generated label referencing ‘primates’ to a Mail news video depicting black men. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? In 1964 the Johannesburg Botanical Garden was established in the suburb of Emmarentia. The Emmarentia Dam forms part of the Garden. The Garden is best known for its roses.

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The Rand Club: The Inner Sanctum of the Randlords

Founded in 1887, just months after the discovery of gold, the Rand Club is the oldest private members’ club in Johannesburg. The current building, completed in 1904, is the third iteration of the club on the same site, designed by the iconic architectural firm Leck & Emley in a Neo-Baroque style that was intended to rival the gentlemen’s clubs of London’s Pall Mall. For over a century, this was the “room where it happened.” It was here that Cecil John Rhodes, Barney Barnato, and Ernest Oppenheimer sipped whiskey and drafted the plans for the mining conglomerates that still dominate the global economy today.