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The Rand Stadium is a stadium in Rosettenville, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was completely rebuilt, to FIFA specifications, and reopened in August 2008, set to be utilized as a training field for teams participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Despite the relatively small capacity, it is regarded as one of the best playing ...
Stadium Capacity City Province Home team(s) Images 1 FNB Stadium: 94,736 Johannesburg: Gauteng: South Africa national team Kaizer Chiefs: 2: Ellis Park Stadium
Rand Stadium, the oldest football stadium in the city, is located in the southern suburb of Rosettenville. Turffontein was the largest concentration camp in Johannesburg during the Second Boer War. The camp was located where the Turffontein Racecourse is now, and held about 5,000 people.
The "old" FNB Stadium also housed the then South African Football Association (SAFA) headquarters as well as the offices of the semi-professional National Soccer League (which later traded as the professional Premier Soccer League). Uruguay vs. Ghana at the FNB Stadium, 2 July 2010. The stadium has also hosted large continental club fixtures.
Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km (25 mi) west of Johannesburg.With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company.
Randburg is an area located in the Gauteng province of South Africa.Formerly a separate municipality, its administration devolved to the newly created City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, along with neighbouring Sandton and Roodepoort, in the late 1990s.
Jan Smuts Avenue is a major street in Johannesburg, South Africa.It begins in Randburg, and passes through important business areas like Rosebank.It passes the Johannesburg Zoo, Zoo Lake and Wits University before becoming Bertha Street, and the Nelson Mandela Bridge near the Johannesburg CBD.
A map of Gauteng, showing the West Rand District Municipality. The West Rand [1] is the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of ...