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Johannesburg in the news:

  1. SA lockdown: Taverns breathe a sigh of relief: JOHANNESBURG – Patrons and tavern owners are breathing a sigh of relief. To curb the spread of COVID-19, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced more stringent measures. Alcohol will now only be sold … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Naspers Limited – Update on Naspers Share Purchase: Naspers Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration number 1925/001431/06) JSE share code: NPN ISIN: ZAE000015889 LSE ADS code: NPSN ISIN: US 6315121003 (Naspers) Shareholders … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Comair trains disadvantaged pilots: Johannesburg, 14 February 2011: As part of its commitment to transformation in the aviation industry, Comair, operator of British Airways in South Africa and kulula.com, has funded six cadets from … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Top official of South Africa’s ruling ANC urged to step down: JOHANNESBURG – The secretary-general of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, may be forced to step down after the party’s … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. NPA ‘just watching’ state capture continue – Blade Nzimande: Johannesburg – SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande criticised the National Prosecuting Authority during his address in the party’s Red October rally in Johannesburg on Sunday for being lax in … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?

Did you know this about Johannesburg? In 1971 the South African Broadcasting Corporation was eventually allowed to introduce a television service. When television was finally introduced, there was only one channel with airtime divided evenly between English and Afrikaans, alternating between the two languages. Test transmissions in Johannesburg began on 5 May 1975, followed in July by ones in Cape Town and Durban. Nationwide services finally commenced on 5 January 1976.

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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.