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Santa’s Bringing the Holiday Spirit to Kwena Square with Carols, Cheer, and Festive Fun

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Santa’s Bringing the Holiday Spirit to Kwena Square with Carols, Cheer, and Festive Fun: [Roodepoort, December 2024] – Ho Ho Hold up! Santa is transforming Kwena Square into the ultimate holiday destination! Join the Roodepoort Theatre, The Salvation Army, and B-Sharp Ensemble for a magical Christmas Carols and Cheer Celebration. With live performances, festive activities, and holiday joy for the whole family, this event is FREE for everyone!

Celebrate the Season with Live Performances and Holiday Cheer

Get ready for a lineup of unforgettable festive events:

Santa & The Roodepoort Theatre Brass Ensemble with B-Sharp Ensemble

Dates: 13th & 20th December
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The Salvation Army Holiday Cheer

Dates: 15th & 22nd December
Time: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Meet Santa

Dates: 13th & 20th December
Time: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Bring the Whole Family and Experience the Joy of the Season

With Christmas carols, community vibes, and festive performances, Kwena Square is the perfect place to create lasting holiday memories.

Don’t Miss Out!
For more details, visit www.kwenasquare.co.za.

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Author: Thabiso Mabena from Mall Marketing Management Pty Ltd on behalf of Kwena Square.

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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.