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Pakistan beat South Africa to lead T20 series 1-0

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Pakistan beat South Africa to lead T20 series 1-0: Pakistan on Saturday defeated South Africa with four wickets to spare in the first fixture of the four-match T20I series at Johannesburg. The Men In Green have taken a 1-0 lead over Proteas, as they … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. ‘A beacon of light who gave endlessly’ – Dr Sindi van Zyl remembered: The Van Zyl family confirmed the much-loved doctor passed away on Saturday morning at a Johannesburg hospital. She was 45 years old. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Dr Sindi passes away after Covid-19 complications: Johannesburg – Well known Dr Sindisiwe Van Zyl, affectionately known as Dr Sindi, died after suffering Covid-19 complications on Saturday morning. She was 45. Her family confirmed her death in a … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Rizwan puts Pakistan 1-0 up in KFC T20I Series: JOHANNESBURG: Mohammad Rizwan continued his excellent form against the Proteas by recording yet another half-century as Pakistan took a 1-0 lead in their four-match KFC T20 International Series with a … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. SA vs PAK: Markram, Klaasen Shine For South Africa In First T20 Against Pakistan: Opening batsman Aiden Markram and stand-in captain Heinrich Klaasen made hard-hitting half-centuries for South Africa in the first Twenty20 international against Pakistan at the Wanderers Stadium in … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? The city was rebuilt four times in the span of one century: First, Johannesburg was a tented camp. Then it was a town of tin shanties. Next it was a town filled with four-storey Edwardian brick buildings and finally, it became a city of modern skyscrapers.

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The Randlord Mansions: History

The history of these mansions is also a story of urban warfare and preservation. In the 1960s and 70s, as Johannesburg expanded, many of the original Parktown estates were ruthlessly demolished to make way for the M1 Highway and the massive concrete campus of the Wits University Medical School. The “Parktown War” saw heritage activists fighting the bulldozers to save what remained of the city’s architectural soul. Today, several of the surviving mansions serve as corporate headquarters, schools, or museums, stripped of their private domesticity but preserved as monuments to a gilded age.

Interestingly, these mansions also played a secret role in the city’s political evolution. It was in the drawing rooms of Parktown that the “progressive” mining elite would meet to discuss the future of the country, often finding themselves at odds with the more conservative Boer government. Lady Florence Phillips, in particular, used her influence to found the Johannesburg Art Gallery, insisting that a world-class city needed world-class culture, not just gold bars. Today, walking the “Heritage Trail” through Parktown offers a haunting contrast; you stand in the quiet, manicured gardens of the victors, looking down at the pulsing, crowded city that their gold mines created. It is the ultimate “view from the top,” a reminder that the extreme wealth of Sandton today has its DNA rooted in the stone-and-timber palaces of the 1900s.