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Liberty Holdings Limited is a South African financial services and property holding company that focuses on Insurance and Asset Management with registered head office in Johannesburg, South Africa at Liberty Centre, 1 Ameshoff St., Braamfontein. [1] [2] [3] Liberty has operations in South Africa, Kenya, Namibia and other in 16 African countries.
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.
A few years later, the centre underwent another major redevelopment by Liberty Life to modernise both the retail and office components, which was completed in 2017. To this day, it is managed by Liberty Properties on behalf of the parent company, Liberty Holdings Limited. [3] [4] The centre is currently over 145,000 m 2 (1,560,000 sq ft). [4]
He founded the Liberty Life Association of Africa in 1957 [4] out of which he formed Transatlantic Insurance Holdings, now Liberty International, in 1980. [ 4 ] He was behind the development of Sandton City , one of the most successful shopping centres in the world.
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There have been reports of corruption within Home Affairs. In February 2010 the department closed one of its Johannesburg offices due to corruption, [5] and in the same year, a number of officials and staff members appeared in court for alleged corruption and bribery. [6] [7] [8]
Old Mutual also established a head office in London. [6] In 2000, it bought the Gerrard Group, a financial services concern, for $857 million. [9] Capel-Cure Sharp subsequently merged with Greig Middleton, Gerrard Group's private client business. Old Mutual sold Gerrard to Barclays Bank plc in 2003. [6] Old Mutual Head Office in Sandton.
Sandton City opened in 1973 with 120 stores on two levels of 50,000 m 2, and added two additional levels of parking for 2,500 cars and outside parking with 25,000 m 2 of office space. [4]: 378 It was also the first of its kind in Johannesburg. Upon opening, the scale and depth of the centre revolutionised South African and Johannesburg retail.