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Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Seven of S.African retailer Clicks’ stores damaged in protests over ‘racist’ ad: Demonstrators damaged seven of South African drug retailer Clicks Group’s shops on Monday and forced others to close during protests over what they said was a racist advertisement posted on its … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Seven of South African Retailer Clicks’ Stores Damaged in Protests Over ‘Racist’ Ad: Demonstrators damaged seven of South African drug retailer Clicks Group’s shops on Monday and forced others to close during protests over what they said was a racist advertisement posted on its … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Jacaranda season is finally upon us: Gauteng residents have already started sharing stunning pictures in their neighbourhoods of purple blossoming around their suburbs. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. The Top 5 Gaming Couples: We all love a game that has a great couple; one that the audience roots for until the end. Who are your favourite gaming couples? – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. SAHRC requests urgent meeting with Clicks: The retailer posted an advert classifying black women’s hair as dry and damaged, while white women’s hair was labelled normal and fine. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? Johannesburg is the world’s largest city not built on a coastline, or on a lake or river. That’s why Joburg is also called the world’s biggest ‘dry port’. More than half of the cargo that arrives through the ports of Durban and Cape Town arrives at the container terminal at City Deep.

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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.