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The building, 80 Albert Street, was built in 1954 as the head office of Johannesburg's Non-European Affairs Department, serving as a Pass Office for enforcing pass laws controlling the movement of black people into Johannesburg under the apartheid system. [5] From 1994, the building housed a women's shelter later called the Usindiso Women's ...
Building in central Marshalltown neighbourhood was being used as ‘informal’ housing for some 200 homeless people Johannesburg fire – latest: Babies among 73 killed in one of the worst blazes ...
Building in central Marshalltown neighbourhood was being used as ‘informal’ housing for some 200 homeless people Johannesburg fire – latest: South Africa president Ramaphosa says blaze that ...
The municipal functions for the area, such as municipal policing and social services, are still managed by the city government. Johannesburg, like many other boom towns, grew rapidly and with little planning, and thus the city covers an extremely large area. The main differences between the city's suburbs tend to be socioeconomic: The north is ...
Vrededorp is situated on the North-Western side of Johannesburg and is 1,764 m (5,788 ft) above sea level. The adjacent suburb of Pageview , along with the part of Vrededorp populated by non-whites, south of 11th Street, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] were commonly and onomatopoeically known as "Fietas" after the Men's Outfitters that traded from 14th street in ...
Jeppestown, 1888. Jeppestown was established in or after 1886 by C.E.G. Julius Jeppe [], who formed the Ford and Jeppe Estate Company with his son, who was also called Julius Jeppe [], and L.P. Ford. [2] In 1893, the Masonic temple was completed. [3]
Braamfontein (English: blackberry spring, or more prosaicly blackberry springs; also known as Braam) is a central suburb of Johannesburg, in South Africa, seat of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and some of South Africa's major corporations such as Liberty Holdings Limited, JD Group (part of Steinhoff Africa), Sappi, and Bidvest (formerly Rennies) Bank and Hollard.
M11 is a major metropolitan route in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa.Historically it was part of the main road between Johannesburg and Pretoria; it now runs through the central and north-eastern parts of the city from Bassonia, passing through Rosettenville, Johannesburg CBD and Hillbrow, passing through numerous older suburbs (including Houghton, Orange Grove and the Alexandra Township ...