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Paarlshoop is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 4 km west of City Hall. It borders Langlaagte to the north and Homestead Park to the northeast. The name comes from the village of Paarlshoop, the oldest private township on the Witwatersrand .
Moroka became Johannesburg's worst slum area. Residents erected their shanties on plots measuring six metres by six metres. There were only communal bucket-system toilets and very few taps. The camps were meant to be used for a maximum of five years, but when they were eventually demolished in 1955, Moroka and Jabavu housed 89,000 people. [23]
The gas tanks have become part of the skyline of the city and, rather than be an eyesore as the city anticipated in 1927, they are now regarded as a heritage landmark. [1] Another reason why the Council decided to choose that particular site for the new Gas Works was that the area gently sloped.
The NZASM 14 Tonner 0-4-0T of 1889 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal.. In 1889, the Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij acquired its first locomotives for use on the new railway which was being constructed from Johannesburg to Boksburg.
Joburg Market (formerly called the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market) is also situated at City Deep and was opened in September 1974. [3] It is a 65,000-square-metre (700,000-square-foot) facility, the largest market supplier of fruit and vegetables in South Africa and Africa with 45,000 buyers visiting each day.
The Municipal Council of Johannesburg Annual Reports of the Town Engineer, 1913 and 1914-1915 record that it cost £1,436 to build. Yeoville Water Tower preceded the nearby James Sivewright's Johannesburg Waterworks, Estate and Exploration Company ‘Johannesburg Waterworks’ erected as a reservoir in 1922, but was built after the Yeoville ...
Olifantsfontein, also known as Clayville, is a small town on the East Rand in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.It is located at the north-western corner of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, just north of the Thembisa township.
Denver was laid out on 25 ha of Doornfontein farm, like all the eastern suburbs of Johannesburg. Owner F.J. Bezuidenhout, for whom Bezuidenhout Valley is named, leased the area in 1903 to a J.H. Strutton to grow crops and garden. Denver was later purchased by a business, and in October 1898, it was zoned as a residential township.