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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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