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The Johannesburg Central Police Station is a South African Police Service police station in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. From its unveiling in 1968 until September 1997, it was called John Vorster Square , after Prime Minister B.J. Vorster .
By the 1890s, the western side of Commissioner street, where the Johannesburg Central Police Station is now located, had developed a reputation for its brothels and the gangs that controlled them. [19] The name Ferreirasdorp itself ultimately became "synonymous with practically everything that is vile and violent" about Johannesburg. [18]
The Durban Borough Police created in 1854, later to become the Durban City Police, and now the Durban Metro Police, to police the city of Durban: the force was headed by a Chief Constable and was modelled on British police forces. [1] "Municipal police forces" were also established in some cities in the 1980s, during the apartheid era.
Brixton Tower, Johannesburg (1962) Joburg Theatre, Johannesburg (1962) Johannesburg Central Police Station, Johannesburg (1968) Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg (1968) Ponte Tower, Johannesburg (1975) Auckland Park Campus, University of Johannesburg (1975)
The fire department and ambulances, the metropolitan police and traffic control, museums, art galleries, libraries and heritage sites are all controlled by separate departments. Some of the key city service functions are supplied by separate, self-contained entities, each run on business lines with its own CEO.
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.
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Johannesburg Park Station is the central railway station in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the largest railway station in Africa. [1] It is located between the Central Business District and Braamfontein , in the block bordered by Rissik, Wolmarans, Wanderers, and Noord Streets.