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Zim needs clear gold policies: Zimcodd

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Zim needs clear gold policies: Zimcodd: There is no gold policy in Zimbabwe. The policy changes that government comes up with (such as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe [RBZ]’s no-questions-asked policy) are not hinged … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Gender gap: Women have been hammered by Covid-19 – South Africa needs urgent policy reform: The impact of Covid-19 has not only exacerbated the inequalities between men and women, it has also widened the income gap between women in lower-income jobs, such as domestic workers, and those who … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Daily Covid-19 update: SA currently has 61,557 active cases: The cumulative number of detected Covid-19 cases is 1,696,564 with 5,074 new cases identified in the past 24 hours. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. England’s Sinckler replaces injured Porter in Lions squad for South Africa: England prop Kyle Sinckler was called into the British and Irish Lions squad for their tour of South Africa on Sunday after Andrew Porter was ruled out through injury. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? The enormous Carlton Centre, built at a cost of R88 million, contained a fifty-storey office tower, the thirty-storey luxury Carlton Hotel, a five-storey Garlicks department store, three-and-a-half-acre public plaza with a two-story underground shopping centre beneath it and parking garages with space for 2000 cars. The Carlton Hotel (Johannesburg) opened for business on October 1, 1972.

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The Carlton Centre: A Monument of Concrete and Contradiction

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.