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On 1 March 1922, the University College, Johannesburg, was finally granted full university status after being incorporated as the University of the Witwatersrand. The Johannesburg municipality donated a site in Milner Park, north-west of Braamfontein, to the new institution as its campus and construction began the same year, on 4 October.
Centre for Development and Enterprise headquartered in Johannesburg. [31] Johannesburg Biennale art exhibit begins. [15] 1996 3 February: 1996 Africa Cup of Nations Final football contest played in Johannesburg. Population: 752,349 city. [32] 1997 MTN Sundrome opens. Flag of Johannesburg revised design adopted. 1998 – Website Joburg.org.za ...
Disbanded military units and formations in Johannesburg (20 P) Pages in category "History of Johannesburg" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The party was made up of 90 settlers, most of them were Dutch & a number of people were from Germany. [1] In the 1680s, more German farmers and women arrived at Cape Colony. In 1691, the population was 1000 Europeans especially Dutch (85%), German (5%) & Huguenots (10%) and 400 slaves. From this point onwards the white population increased to ...
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German South West Africa (German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 [1] until 1915, [2] though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
The region surrounding Johannesburg was originally inhabited by San hunter-gatherers who used stone tools. There is evidence that they lived there up to ten centuries ago. [ 23 ] Stone-walled ruins of Sotho–Tswana towns and villages are scattered around the parts of the former Transvaal in which Johannesburg is situated.
This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany. See also the list of German monarchs and list of chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany