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Tyre burst suspected for horror bus crash that claimed 10 lives

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Tyre burst suspected for horror bus crash that claimed 10 lives: A tyre blowout is believed to have caused a luxury coach to lose control and crash on the N3 highway on Tuesday. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Diedhiou fires hat-trick as Senegal, Morocco book final-round places: Famara Diedhiou scored a hat-trick for Senegal as they and Morocco won yesterday to become the first nations to secure places in the final African World Cup qualifying round. Turkey-based Diedhiou … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Old Mutual to expand West African market share with acquisitions: Old Mutual plans to make at least two acquisitions within the next five years to boost its market share in the West Africa region, where insurance penetration still has significant headroom for growth … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. World Cup qualifier: Senegal, Morocco into next phase, Nigeria stumbles: Senegal and Morocco are into the next phase of the 2022 World Cup qualifying series in the African zone. Famara Diedhiou scored a hat-trick on Tuesday, to … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Senegal and Morocco through to World Cup playoffs: Senegal was the first team to advance to the final World Cup playoffs in Africa after Famara Diedhiou”s hat trick secured a 3-1 win over Namibia. Morocco followed about six hours later on Tuesday by … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? Ponte City is a skyscraper in the Berea neighbourhood, just next to Hillbrow. It was built in 1975 to a height of 173 m (567.6 ft), making it the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa.

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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.