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River Club is a suburb of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa. It is a residentially zoned area near Sandton in Johannesburg's Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality . Residents of the area consist mostly of middle and upper-middle class citizens.
River Club may refer to: River Club, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa; River Club of Jacksonville, a private club in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. River Club, a private club housed in River House (New York City) River Club, Florida, a golf course community in Manatee County, Florida
With its wealth of tourism establishments and more than 40 wedding venues and conference centres, It is often referred to as the "wedding capital" of Gauteng. [9] [10] Home to numerous small farms, smallholdings and nurseries, the area has acquired a reputation for being an arts and cultural hub with a number of home craft industries with a number of potters, artists, brewers, and astronomers ...
The government of Johannesburg's metropolitan area evolved over a seven-year period from 1993, when no metropolitan government existed under apartheid, to the establishment in December 2000 of today's Metropolitan Municipality. An "interim phase" commenced with the 1993 Constitution. This saw the establishment at the metropolitan level of the ...
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On June 10, 2016, the burnt bodies of Edivaldo Silva de Oliveira and Jeovan Bandeira were found in the back of a car in Bahia, Brazil. [24]Osvan Inacio dos Santos, 19, was attacked and murdered in September 2007, on a street near a bar where he had just won the local "Miss Gay" competition in the town of Batingas in northeast Brazil.
Up until the late 1990s Springs had a vibrant Jewish community. There were two synagogues, with a total of 300 families. Today (2015) most of the community has left for Johannesburg, Cape Town, or further afield like Israel, Australia, the US and the UK. [citation needed] The community's last rabbi was the Manchester-born Rabbi Yossi Liberow. [14]
Kliptown is a suburb of the formerly black township of Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, located about 17 km south-west of Johannesburg. Kliptown is the oldest residential district of Soweto, and was first laid out in 1891 on land which formed part of Klipspruit farm. The farm was named after the klipspruit (rocky stream) that runs nearby.