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Johannesburg in the news:

  1. S.Africa’s Northam Platinum buys back more Zambezi Platinum preference shares: Shares in Northam were down 0.70%, firmer than the Johannesburg all share index .JALSH which had weakened 1.48% by 10:19 GMT. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Eskom hails court ruling that allows it to cut off delinquent municipalities: Eskom has hailed a Johannesburg High Court ruling as a “landmark judgment which has affirmed the validity and lawfulness” of its rights, powers and entitlement to interrupt the supply of electricity … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Vaya, SA firm in grocery delivery deal: Econet’s Vaya Technology Limited, has partnered with South Africa based e-commerce firm, Thumela eKhaya, to facilitate the delivery of groceries bought in from the diaspora to Zimbabwe. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. South Africa lays out conditions to seize land, says investors will be reassured: South Africa’s government laid out conditions on Sunday for when land might be confiscated without reimbursement, saying a new law submitted to parliament would pass constitutional muster and reassure … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. From ‘unbearable to unliveable’: The case for ‘radical decarbonisation’: Scholes has more than three decades’ fieldwork experience and works as a professor of systems ecology at Wits University’s Global Change Institute (GCI) in Johannesburg. “But, in the coming decades, … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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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.