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Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Zambia requests finance arrangement from IMF -Fund statement: Zambian authorities have made a formal request to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a finance arrangement, the Fund said on Tuesday, adding that it was currently assessing the request. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Yvonne Vera’s Abiding Influence: The novel Butterfly Burning, by the Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera, came out in 1998, some seven years before her death at 40. Vera died in Canada in 2005, where she had initially moved to in the 1980s … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Tim Cahill: Africa’s first World Cup was one of the best because of the warmth of the people: Former Australia star Tim Cahill talks about his best memories of the World Cup, providing a special mention to South Africa 2010. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Zambia’s president meets with head of IMF Africa department: Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu met with the head of the International Monetary Fund’s Africa Department Abebe Selassie on Tuesday, a spokesman for the presidency said. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. (TRIBUTE): We’ve lost a friend and boss, Dr Imeh Okopido, former Minister of State for Environment: At the advent of the civilian administration in 1999, the government felt the need to establish a new organ to take care of development and implementation … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? The Shaft of Terror, located at the popular amusement park of Gold Reef City, is a vertical-drop roller coaster that has the distinction of being the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Africa. It has a 47-metre drop, and a G force of over 6 Gs!

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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.