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  2. Johannesburg's revival: From crime hub to comeback city - AOL

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    Ed Habershon - BBC News, Johannesburg February 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM Ponte Tower is the tallest residential building in South Africa, and at one point became a hub of criminal activity [Getty Images]

  3. Johannesburg fire – latest: Children among 74 killed in one ...

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    Johannesburg fire – latest: Children among 74 killed in one of the worst blazes in South Africa’s history Namita Singh,Maryam Zakir-Hussain and Eleanor Noyce September 1, 2023 at 1:27 AM

  4. Parktown mansions - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1874. He was educated and articled in Glasgow before coming to South Africa in 1898. He spent his time during the Anglo Boer War in Cape Town before leaving for Johannesburg in 1901. In Johannesburg he was listed as an architect and civil engineer. The Mount is to date his only known architectural work.

  5. World Cup End Impacts South Africa Real Estate Market - AOL

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    Colombian popstar Shakira visited some of South Africa's new and revamped real estate developments while in the country for her 2010 World Cup performances. Her stay in the luxurious penthouse of ...

  6. The Leonardo (Sandton) - Wikipedia

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    The Leonardo is a 55-floor mixed-use property development in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. The fourth tallest building in Africa and the tallest in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, it stands at a height of 234 metres (768 ft). [1] [2] The building is built at 75 Maude Street, approximately 100 metres from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

  7. Johannesburg CBD - Wikipedia

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    The Johannesburg Central Business District, commonly called Johannesburg CBD, is one of the main business centres of Johannesburg, South Africa.It is the densest collection of skyscrapers in Africa, however, due to white flight and urban blight, many of the buildings are unoccupied as tenants have left for more secure locations in the Northern Suburbs, in particular Sandton and Rosebank.

  8. List of tallest buildings in Johannesburg - Wikipedia

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    The building is the former head office of Trust Bank of South Africa, and as such has one of the largest bank vaults in South Africa. The building was sold in February 2003 for Rand 6.4 million (USD $640.000), which may prompt the name to be changed to that of the new tenant. 11 Diagonal Street is a skyscraper in Johannesburg, South Africa. It ...

  9. Factbox-What are Johannesburg’s 'hijacked buildings' and why ...

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    Since the end of apartheid in 1994, a housing crisis in South Africa's largest city of Johannesburg, in Gauteng province, has grown worse, as big businesses moved out of the inner city into ...