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Stuff from Johannesburg
Johannesburg in the news: South Africa: Sibongile Khumalo, the Transformative Singer Who Built an Archive of South African Classics: …
Johannesburg in the news: Sibongile Khumalo: A true diva departs the stage for the last time: In this dreadful season of global dying …
Rising 223 meters into the Highveld sky, the Carlton Centre was for nearly half a century the undisputed “king” of the African skyline. Completed in 1973, it held the title of the tallest building in Africa for 46 years—a reign that only ended in 2019 with the completion of The Leonardo in Sandton. It was designed by the prestigious American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (the same minds behind the Burj Khalifa and Chicago’s Willis Tower), and its brutalist, reinforced concrete design was intended to be a “city within a city,” a symbol of South Africa’s then-booming industrial and mining economy.