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  2. Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden - Wikipedia

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    The Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, previously known as the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, is a 300 hectares (3.0 km 2) botanical reserve in western Roodepoort near Johannesburg. It was formally established in 1982 as the Transvaal National Botanic Gardens, at which time it was the 14th of South Africa's National Botanical ...

  3. Gold Reef City - Wikipedia

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    A bar of gold that has just been solidified in Gold Reef City. Gold Reef City is an amusement park in Johannesburg, South Africa.Located on an old gold mine which closed in 1971, [1] the park is themed around the gold rush that started in 1886 on the Witwatersrand, and the buildings in the park are designed to mimic this period.

  4. List of heritage sites in Gauteng - Wikipedia

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    The old Government Building at Boksburg is situated in Church Street near the station and the well-known Boksburg Lake The building was designed in 1889, two years after the establishment of the town of Boksburg by Sytze Wierda, the "Gouvernements Ingenieur en Architect" of the South African Republic, to accommodate the mining commissioner, the ...

  5. Witwatersrand - Wikipedia

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    The locations of important towns and cities in the region are indicate in the appropriate places. The red line in the detail of the Johannesburg region shows the location of the scarp/ridge that gave the "Witwatersrand" its name; the purple line the location where the main gold bearing reef is exposed at the surface, just south of Johannesburg.

  6. Cradle of Humankind - Wikipedia

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    The Cradle of Humankind [1] [2] [3] is a paleoanthropological site that is located about 50 km (31 mi) northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Gauteng province. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999, [4] the site is home to the largest known concentration of human ancestral remains anywhere in the world. [5]

  7. Johannesburg Botanical Garden - Wikipedia

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    The Johannesburg Botanical Garden is located in the suburb of Emmarentia in Johannesburg, South Africa.The gardens grew out of a large rose garden that was established in 1964 (becoming known locally as the "Rose Garden") and subsequently expanded from 1969 to cover an area of around 125 hectares (1.25 km 2). [1]

  8. List of cities and towns in Gauteng - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cities and towns in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Most towns are no longer separate municipalities, their local governments having been merged into larger structures . In the case of settlements that have had their official names changed the traditional name is listed first followed by the new name.

  9. Johannesburg - Wikipedia

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    Johannesburg (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ h æ n ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / joh-HAN-iss-burg, US also /-ˈ h ɑː n-/-⁠ HAHN-, Afrikaans: [jʊəˈɦanəsbœrχ]; Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli [ɛˈɡɔːli]) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") [12] [13] is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, [7] and is classified as a megacity; [14] it is one of the 100 largest ...

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