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"Hohenheim" was built in 1894 and demolished in 1972 to make way for the Johannesburg Academic Hospital. Sunny Side Park was designed by Frank Emley for Hennen Jennings and completed in 1896. Today it is part of the Sunny Side Park Hotel. "The View" was completed in 1897. It was built by Charles Aburrow as the residence of Sir Thomas Cullinan.
Johannesburg may not be built on a river or harbour, but its streams contribute to two of southern Africa's mightiest rivers, the Limpopo and the Orange. Most of the springs from which many of these streams emanate are now covered in concrete and canalised, accounting for the fact that the names of early farms in the area often end with ...
The complex, built in 1970 originally as "The Tollman Towers" (owned by the prominent South African family of that. name), was two separate towers, one 40 storeys and the other 22, linked by a four-storey podium with a pool deck and a running track. The building was empty for many years as the hotel, The Johannesburg Sun, relocated to Sandton.
Observatory built near town. [4] Sophiatown developed. [8] Roedean School for Girls was founded. 1904 Johannesburg Zoo and Transvaal Technical Institute established. [4] April: Brickfields burned. Drill Hall built. Population: 99,022. [4] 1905 Town administrative wards created. [4] Johannesburg Statistics begins publication. [4] Alexandra ...
Built in 1975, standing almost 200m (656 ft) tall, it's a long-established feature of the city skyline, once the tallest residential building in Africa. But like the city, it's had its ups and downs.
One of the most notable industries to be established in the town during this time was CJ Fuchs (Pty) Ltd. Venturing into the production of domestic electrical appliances under licence from the American company Westing House Electric International, the business was relocated from central Johannesburg to a newly built, modern factory in Alrode in ...
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 ...
Rare is the purpose-built off-roader that you’d want to drive on asphalt. That’s because the robust 4x4’s that make short work of jagged surfaces tend to shake, rattle, or roll in basic ...