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Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Sibanye assessing on-site green hydrogen generation to power fuel cell mobility: Platinum group metals (PGM) producer Sibanye-Stillwater is assessing the generation of green hydrogen on its mine sites to power PGM-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell mobility, it said on Thursday, when … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. South African retail group Truworths to enter budget clothing market with 15 stores: Truworths says brand is youthful, fashionable JOHANNESBURG, Feb 19 (Reuters) – South Africa’s Truworths International is entering the highly competitive budget clothing market with a new brand to be … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. MW ASSET RENTALS (RF) LIMITED – Listing of new financial instrument – MWAR06: Listing of new financial instrument – MWAR06 MW ASSET RENTALS (RF) LIMITED Reg No 2002/030074/06 Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa JSE alpha code: MWSI LISTING OF NEW FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. S. African police seize illegally imported medicine at airport: The South African police on Friday said they have seized unregistered medicine believed to be Ivermectin worthy of R126 millio … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. FIFA boss for COSAFA AGM: FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, has accepted an invitation to attend the COSAFA General Assembly in Johannesburg, South Africa, tomorrow. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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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.