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Jul 14, 2011

Credo Mutwa Cultural Village

Located in the heart of Soweto, the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village is a museum-cum-outdoor exhibition of astounding sculpt...

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Jul 14, 2011

Bensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg

The Bensusan Museum of Photography is named after Dr AD Bensusan, a former mayor of Johannesburg and a man who has devot...

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Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg

The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th Century...

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South African National Museum of Military History

The Museum of Military History offers adults a fascinating look at all forms of war vehicles and weapons. And it will ca...

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Old Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg

Following the invasion of the ZAR in January 1896 by a troop of cavalry led by Dr Leander Jameson, the Executive Committ...

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Blockhouse in Hekpoort, Krugersdorp

The Building was erected during the South African Boer War by the British Military, under the guidance of Major-General ...

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The Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg

In 1925 the Township owners of Houghton Estate, the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Ltd. Donated the origin...

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Wanderers Cricket Stadium, Johannesburg

The Wanderers Cricket Stadium was formerly known as Kent Park. It has a Seating Capacity of 28 000. Gauteng and Transvaa...

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Jul 14, 2011

The Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort

The Confidence Reef was discovered by the Struben brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors...

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Soccer City (FNB Stadium) -Johannesburg

Stadium built in Johannesburg for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The design concept of the Stadium is the Calabash, or African...

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Jul 14, 2011

Outcrop of Main Reef Group of Conglomerates, Johannesburg

Click on image to enlarge It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 22 February 1944. 12TH FEBR...

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Melville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg

We have no recorded evidence of how the Iron Age community on Melville Koppies was affected, but it was almost certainly...

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Langlaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg

In 1886 Hans Sauer, who combined a medical practice with prospecting on Cecil Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’...

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George Harrison Park

George Harrison and the history of Johannesburg are closely bound together: it was he who first found gold in 1886, a di...

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Ellis Park

Emirates Airline Park, also popularly known by its old name Ellis Park Stadium, was constructed in 1928 and was first na...

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