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R160m paid to arts sector beneficiaries

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. R160m paid to arts sector beneficiaries: Johannesburg – A total of 979 beneficiaries of the Presidential Employment Stimulus Package (PESP) programme, which is administered by the National Arts Council (NAC), have been paid R160 million. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. SA Vs PAK 2nd T20I Live Telecast And Stream: Where To Watch In UAE, UK, USA, WI & Canada?: South Africa will take on Pakistan in the 2nd T20 of the four-match series on Monday, April 12 at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Sarfaraz Ahmed is in the team with us because we trust in his abilities: Babar Azam: Ever since the rise of Mohammad Rizwan, the position of Sarfaraz Ahmed in the side has been unstable. Although, with Babar Azam … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. South Africa vs Pakistan 2nd T20 Live Cricket Streaming: When and where to watch match live: South Africa have a depleted squad with Quinton de Kock, David Miller, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi and Anrich Nortje all leaving for IPL. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. ‘I’ve never seen a disease like COVID-19’: World-renowned South African Indian-origin academic: JOHANNESBURG: World-renowned South African Indian-origin academic Prof Hoosen Mahomed Jerry’ Coovadia has described the COVID-19 pandemic as something he has never seen in a career of over six decades … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? The Soweto Uprising was a series of protests led by high school students in South Africa that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. Students from numerous Sowetan schools began to protest in the streets of Soweto in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools. It is estimated that 20,000 students took part in the protests. The number of protesters killed by police was officially given as 176, but estimates of up to 700 have been made. In remembrance of these events, the 16th of June is now a public holiday in South Africa. A thirteen year old Black boy, Hector Pieterson, is the iconic first victim of police brutality, but Dr Melville Edelstein, who had devoted his life to social welfare among blacks, was soon forgotten. He was stoned to death by the mob and left with a sign around his neck proclaiming “Beware Afrikaners”.

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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.