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A Sightseeing Tour Around the Earth :
Gauteng South Africa
By Salvatore and GabriellaHomeschooled in Johannesburg South Africa by
PennyiLearn ppm1- Places and PerspectivesJanuary May 2008
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GAUTENG SOUTH AFRICA
We live in Bedfordview, which falls into Ekurhuleni. Click on the link below:http://www.youtube.com/visitgauteng?target=
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GAUTENG FACTSCapital: Johannesburg
Languages: 21.5% isiZulu,14.4% Afrikaans,13.1% Sesotho,12.5% EnglishPopulation: 9 525 571 (2006)
Share of SA population: 20.1%
Area: 16 548 square kilometers
Share of total SA area: 1.4%
Population density: 576 people per square kilometers
Gross regional product: R413.6-billion
Share of total SA GDP: 33.3%
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History of Gauteng
Click on these links for a history of Gauteng:
http://www.xtimeline.com/events.aspx?q=
Bif200804260253058128281&p=1
http://www.southafrica.co.za/history_28.html
Views of Johannesburg skyline
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Historic Buildings of JohannesburgJohannesburg was
founded in 1886 and isthe largest and mostpopulous city in South
Africa. It is theprovincial capital of
Gauteng, thewealthiest province inSouth Africa, havingthe largest economyof any metropolitan
region in Sub-SaharanAfrica. The city is one
of the 40 largestmetropolitan areas in
the world, it isAfrica's most
advanced city, and oneof Africa's only two
global cities, the
other being Cairo.
Arial view of the citycentre
Anglo-American HO Barbican Building
Ansteys Tower,located at 59 Joubert
Street is now a
national monument.This building was oncethe home of CecilWilliams (actor,playwright, and
member of Umkhontowe Sizwe). Nelson
Mandela wasdisguised as Cecil
Williams' driver whenhe was captured on 5
August 1962.
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The Hillbrow Tower is the highest structure inJohannesburg, and is probably the city'smost recognisable landmark. The Hillbrow
Tower (previously known as the JG StrijdomTower) was built over three years, between
June 1968 and April 1971, and is 269m high.It is owned by Telkom (previously by the PostOffice) and is used as a microwave tower. Itused to boast a revolving restaurant, but wasclosed in January 1981 for security reasons.The tower had a blue illuminated Telkom signinstalled on 31 May 2005, and was renamed as
the Telkom Joburg Tower. It is interestingto note that the height of the Hillbrow
Tower is virtually the same as the length of
the Titanic (269m).
The Standard Bank building is unique inJohannesburg, in that it was built from
the top down. After the central core was
built, the floors were suspended fromthree cantilevered arms, with the topfloors added first, followed by each lowerfloor. The building is organised into three
hanging volumes of nine office floorseach, with air conditioning plants housed
between the sections.Photograph on right courtesy of
www.joburg.org.za
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Since 2007 with all the new investments into the city centre,the money is being poured into restoring Joburg's CBD.
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Astor Building and WLD High Court Witwatersrand
For more on the restoration of Johannesburg inner city click onto these interesting links:
http://www.joburg.org.za/content/view/1902/203/http://www.joburgnews.co.za/nov_2002/nov22_heritage.stm
http://www.joburg.org.za/content/view/126/58/
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Sir Herbert Baker buildings
Stone House, Sir Herbert Bakers home in
Parktown Johannesburg
http://www.southafricaholiday.org.uk/culture/fp_herbert
_baker.htm
Rodean Girls School,
Johannesburg
St Johns College for Boys,Johannesburg
Northwards,Johannesburg
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GOLD REEFCITY
Built around the No. 14 shaft of Crown Mines,this city is an authentic reproduction ofJohannesburg at the beginning of the
1900s.
There are fully furnished miner's houses withoriginal furniture and fittings, including
pressed ceilings.
The museum exhibits include antique clothingand children's toys, which take the visitor
back 100 years to the city that was. A trainencircles the park and many shops offer
interesting curios.
You can also visit the original gold mine in a lift
that goes down to 220 meters below thesurface. An on site casino is open 24 hoursdaily.
http://www.goldreefcity-mint.co.za/
http://www.goldreefcity.co.za/theme_park/index.asp
Authentic miningequipment in museum
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APARTHEID MUSEUM,Johannesburg
The Apartheid Museum was built to celebratethe triumph of the human spirit overadversity, inequality and humiliation.
Beginning in 1948, the white elected NationalParty government implemented the policy
of apartheid which turned 20 million peopleinto second class citizens, damning them toa life of servitude, humiliation and abuse.
Their liberation in 1994 with the election ofNelson Mandela, the prisoner who became
president, is a climax in the saga of anation's resistance, courage and fortitude.
The Apartheid Museum , the first of itskind, illustrates the rise and fall of
apartheid.
Click on this link to a video introductionto the museum:
http://www.nowmediawebcasting.co.za/clients/apartheid/
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MANDELA FAMILY MUSEUM,Soweto Johannesburg
With FW de Klerk,with whom he wasawarded the Nobel
Peace Prize
Nelson Mandela's humble little house in Orlando West, Soweto,
now called the Mandela Family Museum, is an interesting stopoverfor those who want to peep into the life of the Black Pimpernel,the world's most famous former prisoner.
http://www.sa-venues.com/attractionsga/mandela-museum.htm
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NEWTOWN CULTURALPRECINCT,
Johannesburg
Newtown is central to all-year Jozi culture and the annual highlight, Arts AliveInternational Festival, held every September decidedly, a high point on
Johannesburgs arts and culture calendar, when patrons of the arts spill in andout of every available venue.
For a map of Newtown click on this link:www.joburg-
archive.co.za/maps/IMS_NEWTOWN.pdf
Market theatrehttp://www.markettheatre.co.za/
The indelible Kippies
Caf celebrating thecontributions ofmusicians to African
Jazz. It is named afterjazz legend Kippie
Moeketsi
Moyo (the Swahili word for soul... )Restaurant at the Market
Theatrehttp://www.moyo.co.za/
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NEWTOWN CULTURALPRECINCT,
Johannesburg
Brenda Fassie, SouthAfrica's undisputed queen of
pop,Dubbed the "Madonna ofthe Townships" in a 2001Time Magazine interview,
Fassie emerged at theheight of the anti-apartheidstruggle in the 1980s to givea voice to marginalised black
South Africans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrinswnda3Q&feature=related
A bronze statue of BrendaFassie outside Bassline Jazz
Club
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NELSON MANDELA BRIDGE
Paris has its Eiffel Tower, New York its
Statue of Liberty, Sydney its HarbourBridge. On 20 July, Johannesburg opened
the largest cable-stayed bridge insouthern Africa. Who else to name it
after but Nelson Mandela, the man wholed South Africa across the apartheid
divide?
Together, the Newtown and Braamfonteindevelopments form a "cultural arc" linkingthe Newtown Cultural Precinct with the
Constitution Hill precinct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela_Bridge
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SOPHIATOWN,
Johannesburg
Originally called Sophiatown, itwas destroyed, and a white
suburb called Triomf (Triumph)was established in its place by
the apartheid government,before the name Sophiatown
was officially restored in 2006.
Sophiatown became thesymbolic center of blackculture around
Johannesburg in the 1940sand 50s. It was a focus ofarts, politics, religion, and
entertainment.
In the early hours, heavily armed policeentered Sophiatown to force residents
out of their homes and load theirbelongings onto government trucks. Theresidents were taken to a large tract of
land, thirteen miles from the city centre,to the aptly-named empty fields ofMeadowlands (now part of Soweto)
Resistance was only peaceful.The government bulldozed Sophiatown bythe end of 1963(except for the AnglicanChurch of Christ the King and rebuilt it
as a white only suburb named Triomf(Afrikaans for triumph). The ANC
government restored the nameSophiatown in the late 1990s, althoughthe name change was only completed in
February 2006.
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OLD FORT, CONSTITUTION HILLJohannesburg
The ConstitutionalCourt is a
groundbreaking buildingthat not only houses
the 11 judges whoguard South Africa'sConstitution but also
which stands as an iconof our new culture ofdemocracy and human
rights.
It is fitting that the Court, a symbol of the democracythat replaced apartheid, has been built on the site of the
Old Fort, Johannesburg's notorious prison - symbolisingthe triumph of hope over a troubled past.
The building, which reflects the values of our new cultureof constitutionalism, needed a court chamber, public
areas, a library, public reading space and rooms for 11judges and other staff. Few modern South African
buildings have inspired as much awe and excitement asthis one.
http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/home.htm
http://www.concourt.gov.za/text/tour/main.html
http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/media/1997/9707/s970714
b.htm
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http://www.jhbzoo.org.za/
The main purpose of the JohannesburgZoo is the accommodation,
enrichment, husbandry and medicalcare of wild animals. The
Johannesburg Zoo contributes to thequality of life of the citizensof Joburg through education,conservation, research andrecreation of wild animals.
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JOHANNESBURG BOTANICALGARDENSAs Joburg started as a fast growing, rough and
raw mining camp little attention was paid
to the provision of parks for its residents.Joubert Park, the first established park inthe city and later home of the
Johannesburg Art Gallery. A parksdepartment was established only after the
Anglo-Boer South African War (1899 1902) when a start was made with thedevelopment of parks and recreational
spaces.
As land along the main Witwatersrand goldreef was being mined for gold, it was hardto find land for recreational purposes. The
Wilds a reserve for indigenous shrubsand flowers in Houghton was establishedin 1938. Bezuidenhout Park, on the eastern
outskirts, was developed in 1945. Thehomestead and cemetery of the originalowners, the Bezuidenhout family, still
exists. Many other parks and sanctuariesfollowed all over the city and its suburbs.
The Botannical Gardens opened in 1968.
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The Crocodile Ramble, Magaliesburghttp://www.theramble.co.za/
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Croc City Crocodile Farm provides theopportunity to observe one of the world'smost spectacular predators at close range.You are also given the chance to HOLD a
hatchling. On display we have croc hatchlingsto large adults of up to five meters in length.
The maze is now 30%larger and the
beautiful Garden ofReflection is filled
with poetry androses and things
spinningand dancing in the
wind!
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The Lion Park offers terrific close-upviews and other experiences with lions,as well as rare white lions. Other large
predators at the Lion Park include
cheetahs, brown and spotted hyenas,wild dogs and jackals. Superb filming and
photographic opportunities are alsopossible.
http://www.lion-park.com/
Dangerous Liasons A story about dangerous
companionshttp://www.lion-
park.com/companions2.htm
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The colourfully painted homes of the Ndebele villagersare an irresistible photo opportunity, and you must buy
a beautiful Ndebele doll!
The sensational handcraft beadwork of the Ndebelewoman folk make for a special addition to you curio
collection.
http://www.lesedi.com/
This is a charming, authenticand earthy African experience
in the heart of the bush, acultural village with exciting
traditional dance display, craftmarket, pub, restaurant,
junction venue and conferencecentre.
Lesedi Ndebele VillageMAPOCH VILLAGE
This living cultural village (a
kraal) offers fascinatinghistory and an environment
where modern cultures blendnaturally with the values andnorms of the Ndebele people.
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CONCLUSION
There are many more fascinating and beautifulplaces to visit in South Africa, but we have
chosen places which we really enjoy visiting, andwhich are of historical importance for us.
Visit this blog and have a look at the tour you aretaken of around Johannesburg.
http://johannesburgdailyphoto.blogspot.com/
http://gardkarlsen.com/johannesburg_south_africa_2004.htmBruma Craft Market
Beautifulart and
crafts inNewtownCulturalPrecinct
We hope that you havenot only enjoyed our tourof Gauteng, but that youhave learnt about ofinteresting, beautifulcountry and in particular,the province where welive.
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