Gauteng

Gauteng, South Africa
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3,548 items

Litsitsirupa Private Nature Reserve (Q63565738)
item type: protected area
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Litsitsirupa Private Nature Reserve is a nature reserve 70 km (43 mi) north-east of Pretoria. Fences of 13 former farms were removed to develop a park where wild animals may freely move on an area of approximately 400 ha (990 acres). It includes zebra, impala, kudu, blue wildebeest, giraffe, and more.

Onverwacht, Gauteng (Q15975779)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Onverwacht (Dutch for "unexpected") is a town in City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The settlement is located about 40 km north-east of Pretoria, near the mining town of Cullinan.

Zandspruit (Q8066080)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Zandspruit is a township in the Region C of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It has been the scene of potential opportunities with regards to development by private and public entities. Several complaints against apathy and incompetence on the part of the local municipal authority have been raised and as a result development has slowly occurred.

Inadan (Q15228609)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Inadan is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region A of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Johannesburg North (Q15229640)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Johannesburg North is a suburb of Randburg, South Africa. It is located in Region C of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Kya Sands, Johannesburg (Q15240967)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Kya Sands is an informal settlement located in Region A of the City of Johannesburg.

Plovers Lake (Q7205179)
item type: protected area / archaeological site / paleontological site
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Plovers Lake Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cavity in South Africa. The cave is located about 4 km Southeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 36 km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. Plovers Lake has been declared a South African National Heritage Site.

Ruimsig Stadium (Q7378749)
item type: stadium
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ruimsig Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Roodepoort, South Africa. It is used mostly for football matches and was used as a training field for teams participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup after being renovated in 2009 and brought up to FIFA standards.

St. Michael and All Angels' Anglican Church, Weltevreden Park (Q7590736)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Parish of Weltevreden Park is represented solely by St. Michael and All Angels' Anglican Church. It is located at 1123 Cornelius Street.

website: http://www.stmikes.org.za/

Sunrella (Q7641002)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Sunrella AH is an agricultural suburb north of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region A of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Homo naledi (Q20962857)
item type: fossil taxon
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Minnaar's Cave (Q110281440)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Minnaar's Cave, or simply Minnaar, is a palaeontological site located in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Gauteng province, South Africa. Lost after its discovery in the 1930s, its location was rediscovered in 2009. It is known for its well-preserved jackal skulls, dating to the Plio-Pleistocene at least 2 million years ago.

Bolt's Farm (Q110486875)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bolt's Farm is a palaeontological site in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Gauteng province, South Africa. With more than 30 fossil deposits dating back 4.5 Ma, it is one of the oldest sites currently discovered in the Cradle of Humankind. It consists of multiple cavities, pits, and quarries, where caves have eroded away, exposing their fossiliferous interiors. Although this site has not yet yielded the hominid fossils for which the Cradle of Humankind is known, Bolt's Farm is still an important source of fossils from various species of Early Pliocene and Plio-Pleistocene fauna, including primates and big cats.

Allen Glen High School (Q65046037)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Allen Glen High School is a co-educational public school that is located in Roodepoort, Gauteng.

South African Radio League (Q7565781)
item type: organization
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The South African Radio League (SARL), formerly known as the South African Radio Relay League (SARRL), is a non-profit organisation representing the interests of amateur radio enthusiasts in South Africa. The SARL advocates on behalf of its membership and all licensed amateur radio operators in South Africa as the representative of amateur radio to the South African government. This has included the promotion of deregulation and simplification of the amateur radio service, and expansion of the number of amateur radio operators in Southern Africa. The SARL publicises and promotes the role of amateur radio in society, and promotes the use of amateur radio in schools as an entry point into the fields of science and technology. The SARL publishes a magazine called Radio ZS twelve times a year. SARL is the national Member Society representing South Africa in the International Amateur Radio Union and is a Member Society in IARU Region 1.

website: http://www.sarl.org.za/

Wilgespruit (Q35418714)
item type: stream
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Die Wilgespruit is 'n spruit wat noord van Krugersdorp in Gauteng in Suid-Afrika vloei. Dit is 'n klein sytak van Muldersdrift se loop wat in die Krokodilrivier mond.

Boikarabelo (Q4938312)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Boikarabelo is a rural community located in Magaliesburg, South Africa dedicated to helping and providing a home for economic and AIDS orphans and the poor. The site includes an orphanage, school, medical clinic and village. It was founded in 1990. Boikarabelo (formerly Botshabelo Community Development Trust, Magaliesburg) was featured in the documentary film Angels in the Dust.

Rooisloot (Q35242882)
item type: stream
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Die Rooisloot is 'n spruit naby Hekpoort in die weste van die Gautengprovinsie, Suid-Afrika.

Hekpoortspruit (Q64704501)
item type: river
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Die Hekpoortspruit is 'n spruit in die Gautengprovinsie 60 km wes van Pretoria, die hoofstad van Suid-Afrika. Dit is 'n sytak van die Magaliesrivier wat in die Hartbeespoortdam invloei.

Waterkloof (Q32041519)
item type: valley
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Die Waterkloof is 'n vallei in Gauteng, Suid-Afrika. Dit moet nie verwar word met die voorstad Waterkloof in Pretoria nie.

Impumelelo (Q6008012)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)
St Dunstan's Cathedral, Benoni (Q85802990)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

St Dunstan's Cathedral, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint Dunstan is an Anglican cathedral in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa. It is the seat of the Diocese of the Highveld, encompassing the East Rand and southern Mpumalanga. The current dean is Simon Aiken.

Langaville (Q110243535)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Langaville is a township located near Tsakane, in Gauteng province, South Africa.

Hoërskool Brandwag (Uitenhage) (Q16892359)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Hoërskool Brandwag is an Afrikaans medium school in Uitenhage (Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality), South Africa, with an academic orientation. The school opened in 1937, and is named after a peak in the Drakensberg in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, called "The Sentinel" in English, which appears on the school's emblem. Its motto is "U dienswillige dienaar" (Your obedient servant), which was the title of the autobiography of Afrikaans literary figure Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven.

Bosman Stadium (Q16255257)
item type: stadium
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bosman Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Brakpan, South Africa. The Falcons Currie Cup team has historically used this ground as their home base. The stadium is currently used for football and rugby matches.

PAM Brink Stadium (Q3361750)
item type: stadium
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

PAM Brink Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Springs, South Africa. It has been closed for years due to damage caused by vandalism and financial problems. It was used mostly for football matches. It was the home ground of Benoni Premier United and has long been the lair of the Eastern Transvaal rugby team who plays in the Currie Cup first division. The stadium holds 25,000 people. It takes its name from P.A.M. Brink, who was president of the "sub-federation" of rugby in the Eastern Transvaal (before it became detached from the Transvaal in 1947), and mayor of the town of Springs.

Union Carriage & Wagon (Q7885459)
item type: business
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) is a rolling stock manufacturer in South Africa.

website: http://www.ucw.co.za/

Ebotse Golf & Country Estate (Q15390317)
item type: golf course / golf club
Summary from Nederlands / Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki)

De Ebotse Golf & Country Estate is een golfclub in Benoni, Zuid-Afrika, dat opgericht werd in 2007. De golfbaan werd ontworpen door Peter Matkovich en het is een 18 holesbaan met een par van 72.

Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (Q7366123)
item type: business
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL) (Afrikaans: Roodeplaat Navorsings Laboratoriums) was a front company established in 1983 by the South African Defence Force to research, test and produce biological weapons within a covert operation known as Project Coast.

Nokeng tsa Taemane Local Municipality (Q1394367)
item type: local municipality
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Nokeng tsa Taemane Local Municipality was a local municipality in the Metsweding District of Gauteng in South Africa.

website: http://www.nokengmun.co.za/

Trust Bank Building (Q512913)
item type: skyscraper / bank building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Trust Bank Building is a skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1970 to a height of 140 metres. The building is the former head office of Trust Bank of South Africa, and as such has one of the largest bank vaults in South Africa. The building was sold in February 2003 for Rand 6.4 million (USD $640,000). Like most skyscrapers in Johannesburg the height is 140m which is the same height as KwaDukuza eGoli Hotel, Michelangelo Towers, ABSA Tower and Standard Bank Centre which are all 140m tall.

Highveld (Q260225)
item type: ecoregion
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Highveld (Afrikaans: Hoëveld, pronounced [ˈɦuəfælt], lit.'High Field') is the portion of the South African inland plateau which has an altitude above roughly 1,500 m (4,900 ft), but below 2,100 m (6,900 ft), thus excluding the Lesotho mountain regions to the south-east of the Highveld. It is home to some of the country's most important commercial farming areas, as well as its largest concentration of metropolitan centres, especially the Gauteng conurbation, which accommodates one-third of South Africa's population.

Witwatersrand (Q587808)
item type: mountain range
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Witwatersrand (UK: , US also ; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˌvətˌvɑːtəɾsˈɾant]; locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a 56-kilometre-long (35 mi), north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which account for the name Witwatersrand, meaning "white water ridge" in Afrikaans. This east-west-running scarp can be traced with only one short gap, from Bedfordview (about 10 km [6 mi] west of O.R. Tambo International Airport) in the east, through Johannesburg and Roodepoort, to Krugersdorp in the west (see the diagram at left below).

Fairview, Gauteng (Q5430743)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Fairview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), with the suburb of Troyeville to the north, Jeppestown to the south and Malvern to its east. Commissioner Street, the main street in the CBD, has its eastern end in the suburb. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Heriotdale (Q5738590)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Heriotdale is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb lying south of Malvern and north of Rosherville, is an industrial area. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Elladoone (Q5364613)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Elladoone is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Exchange Square (Q5419586)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Exchange Square (also known as Old Mutual) is a skyscraper at 69 President Street in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1975 and is 29 storeys (406.80 ft.) tall. Its structure is made of concrete while its facade is constructed from ceramic tiles. The building is colored brown and is made in a modernistic style. It is mainly used as a commercial office building.

Glenesk (Q5568487)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Glenesk is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The suburb lies just north of Turffontein and is south of the CBD.

Haddon, Gauteng (Q5637687)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Haddon is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Located south of the CBD, it is located close to the larger suburb of Turffontein. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Emmarentia (Q5373389)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Emmarentia (which usually encompasses Emmarentia Ridge and Emmarentia Ext. 1) is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (Q5428964)
item type: university
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

website: http://www.wits.ac.za/ebe

Forbesdale (Q5467280)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Forbesdale is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a tiny northern suburb tucked between Orchards, Maryvale and Cheltondale. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Forest Town, Gauteng (Q5469119)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Forest Town, as the name implies, is a leafy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies between the busy thoroughfares of Jan Smuts Avenue and Oxford Road, and is bordered to one side by the Johannesburg Zoo.

Gillview (Q5562438)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Gillview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Houghton Estate (Q5912944)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Houghton Estate, often simply called Houghton, is an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, north-east of the city centre.

Evans Park (Q5415941)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Evans Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9.

Forest Hill, Gauteng (Q5468908)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Forest Hill is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Faculty of Humanities (Q5428988)
item type: university
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

website: http://www.wits.ac.za/humanities

Fire Walker (Q5451496)
item type: sculpture
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Fire Walker is a public art sculpture in South Africa, Johannesburg in the inner city. The piece is located on Sauer and Simmonds Street, off of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge. The sculpture represents a woman carrying a brazier on her head in commemoration of the activity which took place in the area in recent years, when ladies would prepare and sell their fires to others preparing food in the surrounding areas.

Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium (Q5527910)
item type: organization
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium (GAELIC) was the first project of FOTIM (Foundation of Tertiary Institutions of the Northern Metropolis) in South Africa. GAELIC was founded in April 1996. Its mission was to use and develop the information resources in the Gauteng, Limpopo, and North West province of South Africa in order to promote education, research and lifelong learning. Due to consolidation of projects and duplication, FOTIM and GAELIC closed down in July 2011.

website: http://www.gaelic.ac.za/

Glenanda (Q5568138)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Glenanda is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F. Glenanda borders the suburbs of Glenvista, Suideroord and Winchester Hills. Glenanda has its own public library, service station and local shopping centre. Glenanda Primary School was established there in 1976 and services Glenanda as well as the surrounding areas. Glenanda is in close proximity to The Glen Shopping Centre with an average travelling time of five minutes.

Glenvista (Q5569422)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Glenvista is a suburb in the south of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It has a large Portuguese community and a distinctly cosmopolitan character. Alberton is located 5 kilometres to the East of Glenvista.

Ferreirasdorp (Q5445283)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ferreirasdorp (or Ferreirastown) is an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Framton (Q5478066)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Framton is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, just south of the CBD and neighbouring the suburb of Booysens. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Fairwood, Gauteng (Q5430925)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Fairwood is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small elevated suburb on the edge of Linksfield Ridge tucked between the suburbs of Orange Grove, Linksfield and Mountain View. Sylvia Pass winds down through the suburb. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Fellside, Gauteng (Q5442555)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Fellside is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb located north-east of the city centre with Orange Grove to its north, south and east, with Houghton Estate to its west. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Hekro Towers (Q5701352)
item type: skyscraper
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Hekro Towers is a skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. Standing at an estimated 384.47 feet (117.19 metres), it is 30 storeys tall.

Germiston (Q993721)
item type: city
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Germiston, also known as kwaDukathole, is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng, South Africa, administratively forming part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since the latter's establishment in 2000. It functions as the municipal seat of Ekurhuleni, hosting the municipal council and administration.

Earth Summit 2002 (Q920142)
item type: summit
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002, took place in South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened to discuss sustainable development organizations, 10 years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. (It was therefore also informally nicknamed "Rio 10".)

website: http://www.sommetjohannesburg.org/

Mountain View, Gauteng (Q950305)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mountain View is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Constitutional Court of South Africa (Q1133886)
item type: constitutional court / supreme court
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Constitutional Court of South Africa is a supreme constitutional court established by the Constitution of South Africa, and is the apex court in the South African judicial system, with general jurisdiction.

website: https://www.concourt.org.za/

Market Theatre (Q1900656)
item type: theatre building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Market Theatre, based in the downtown bohemian suburb of Newtown in Johannesburg, South Africa, was opened in 1976, operating as an independent, anti-racist theatre during the country's apartheid regime. It was named after a fruit and vegetable market that was previously located there. It was also known as the Old Indian Market or the Newtown Market, which closed after 60 years. The Market Theatre was renamed John Kani Theatre in 2014 after the renowned South African stage actor John Kani.

website: http://markettheatre.co.za/

Greenside (Q1752859)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Greenside, is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Greenside borders on the suburbs Emmarentia, Parkview, Parkhurst and Victory Park.

Joburg Open (Q1691001)
item type: golf tournament
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Joburg Open is a men's professional golf tournament that is held in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is an event on the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Tour and co-sanctioned by the European Tour, which attracts a larger prize fund and stronger fields. It is one of several tournaments in South Africa on the European Tour's international schedule, and until 2017 was one of the events where high-finishing players earned entry into The Open Championship if not already exempt.

website: http://www.joburgopen.com/

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former Asian Tour events
2011 African Youth Championship (Q1852312)
item type: sports season
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The 2011 African Youth Championship was a football tournament for the Under-20 level national teams in Africa. It was due to be held in Libya from 18 March to 1 April. Following political unrest in the region, CAF decided to postpone the tournament, before deciding that South Africa would be the new hosts, with games taking place between 17 April and 2 May.

Prolecon (Q7249558)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Prolecon is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9.

Robertsham (Q7352072)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Robertsham is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated in the city's southern suburbs just south of the CBD. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Selby, Gauteng (Q7447540)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Selby is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Randview (Q7292040)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Randview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 8.

Risana (Q7335822)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Risana is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Potgietersrus Rugby Stadium (Q7234877)
item type: stadium
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Potgietersrus Rugby Stadium is a rugby union stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. It seats 4,000 people. Previously it was used as home venue by the Katlehong City Football Club, but when the club was relegated from the National First Division in May 2002, they moved their home venue to another place in the Free State Province. Since then, the stadium has mostly been used to host various Rugby games in Johannesburg.

Raedene Estate (Q7281959)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Raedene Estate is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is found just north of Sydenham. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

SAB World of Beer (Q7388463)
item type: museum
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

SAB World of Beer was a museum of beer, and conference venue operated by South African Breweries; it was located in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa.

website: http://www.worldofbeer.co.za/

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: 2019 disestablishments in South Africa
Southfork, Gauteng (Q7570785)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Southfork is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Ridgeway, Gauteng (Q7332809)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ridgeway is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Riviera, Gauteng (Q7338850)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Riviera is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Salisbury Claims (Q7404755)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Salisbury Claims is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Schmerenbeck Educational Centre for Gifted and Talented Children (Q7431787)
item type: academic institution
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Schmerenbeck Educational Centre for Gifted and Talented Children, an organisation based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, promoted, encouraged and fostered the education of gifted children within South Africa without regard to race. The centre was originally housed on campus in portable prefabricated buildings before it moved to a house in the Johannesburg suburb of Parktown opposite the University of the Witwatersrand's Education Department until it closed in 1995.

Shell House massacre (Q7493668)
item type: massacre
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Shell House massacre was a 1994 shooting incident that took place at Shell House, the headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC), in central Johannesburg, South Africa in the lead up to the 1994 elections.

South Hills, Gauteng (Q7567477)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

South Hills is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Also known as Suidheuwels in Afrikaans, it is about 20 minutes drive from Johannesburg Central. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Southdale, Gauteng (Q7569262)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Southdale is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Spes Bona (Q7576430)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Spes Bona is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Regents Park, Gauteng (Q7308129)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Regents Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is found north of The Hill. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Southern Life Centre (Q7570086)
item type: skyscraper
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Southern Life Centre is an international style skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Regency Park Estate (Q7308013)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Regents Park Estate is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9.

Rewlatch (Q7319091)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rewlatch is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Reynolds View (Q7319675)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Reynolds View is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Rispark (Q7336339)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rispark is a suburb (South) of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Saxonwold (Q7428860)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Saxonwold is an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated in what was once the Sachsenwald Forest in the early 20th century. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

South African Institute of International Affairs (Q7565710)
item type: research institute / think tank
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is an independent South African public policy and foreign relations think tank based in Johannesburg. Founded 1934 in Cape Town, the institute is located on the campus of the University of the Witwatersrand since 1944.

Street address: SAIIA Head OfficeEast CampusUniversity of the WitwatersrandJohannesburg; 1st Floor Wale Street Chambers33 Church StreetCape Town, Central Business District8001 (from Wikidata)

website: https://saiia.org.za/

IMM Graduate School of Marketing (Q5972037)
item type: business school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The IMM Graduate School is a privately owned educational institution and is part of the UXi Education group. The IMM Graduate School offers degrees, diplomas and certificates in marketing, marketing management and supply chain management.

Killarney, Gauteng (Q6407296)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Killarney is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. A relatively wealthy area, located west of the M1 freeway, Killarney is a densely built-up area, and it has numerous apartment blocks, as well as a large shopping mall, Killarney Mall.

Kingsway Campus Auckland Park (Q6413714)
item type: academic institution
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Kingsway Campus Auckland Park, also known as APK, is the largest and most populated of the four campuses of the University of Johannesburg. It is also the seat of the administration and governance body of the university. The campus was formerly the only educational campus of the Rand Afrikaans University. The campus gets its name from a major Johannesburg road, Kingsway Avenue, that runs along the north-east side of the campus. The roads that form the boundary of the campus are (clock-wise) University Road, Ditton Avenue, Ripley Road, Hampton Avenue, Studente Avenue, Akademie Road and Perth Road. Although the official name of the campus implies that it is in Auckland Park, it actually falls just out of that suburb by one street. It is technically in the suburb of Rossmore with the first-year parking lot bordering the suburb of Melville, Gauteng.

Lorentzville (Q6680550)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lorentzville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs of Bertrams and Judith's Paarl, with Troyeville to the south. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Jan Hofmeyer (Q6149061)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Jan Hofmeyer is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The suburb was named after Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (20 March 1894 – 3 December 1948), a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding Apartheid.

Logistics House (Q6667652)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Logistics House is an office tower in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1974 to a height of 95 metres (312 ft). It has 25 floors. The building is the former headquarters of South African Airways.

Voortrekker High School (Q5923145)
item type: school / secondary school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Hoërskool Voortrekker is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high school situated in the municipality of Boksburg in the city of Ekurhuleni in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The academic school was established in 1920.

website: http://www.voortrekkerhs.co.za

Jeppe High School for Boys (Q6180411)
item type: high school / secondary school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Jeppe High School for Boys is a public English medium high school for boys in Kensington, a suburb of Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is one of the 23 Milner Schools, and its sister school is Jeppe High School for Girls.

website: http://www.jeppeboys.co.za

Jeppestown (Q6180441)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Jeppestown is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Johannesburg CBD (Q6217146)
item type: central business district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Johannesburg Central Business District, commonly called Johannesburg CBD, is one of the main business centres of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the densest collection of skyscrapers in Africa, however, due to white flight and urban blight, many of the buildings are unoccupied as tenants have left for more secure locations in the Northern Suburbs, in particular Sandton and Rosebank. There are significant movements to revive the area.

Johannesburg Muslim School (Q6217157)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Joubert Park (Q6294511)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Joubert Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The suburb shares its name with the largest park in the Central Business District, which is located a few blocks from the main train station for the city (known as Park Station).

Lindberg Park (Q6552155)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lindberg Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

KwaDukuza eGoli Hotel (Q6449868)
item type: hotel
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Johannesburg Sun Hotel is an abandoned twin-tower skyscraper hotel in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Defunct hotels
Kibler Park (Q6404048)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Kibler Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F. Kibler Park has a nature reserve, an 18-hole golf course, top class recreation centre, high profile conference centre and hotel, shopping centres, two filling stations, two private schools, a public primary school, a public high school, pubs, churches, and a fully operational fire station. It is a quiet, farm-type suburb at Southern edge of Johannesburg. Vehicle traffic is sparse except during peak hours. It is 15 minutes away from the Johannesburg CBD.

Klipriviersberg Estate (Q6421123)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Klipriviersberg Estate is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9.

La Rochelle, Gauteng (Q6464922)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

La Rochelle is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. South of the Johannesburg CBD, the suburbs of Turffontein and Rosettenville lie to its south. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Jeppestown South (Q6180444)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Jeppestown South is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Two schools are located in the suburb, John Mitchell Primary School (principal Mr Rotteveel) and Jules High School (principal Mr G van Vuuren) which was formerly known as Edith Hinds High School.

Klipriviersberg (Q6421122)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Klipriviersberg is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Liefde en Vrede (Q6544108)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Liefde en Vrede (Love and Peace) is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Linmeyer (Q6554487)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Linmeyer is a suburb located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa and overlooks the Klipriversburg mountains to the south.

Kenilworth, Gauteng (Q6389285)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Kenilworth is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb has Turffontein to the west and Rosettenville to the east, with the Turffontein Racecourse on its northern boundary. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Kensington, Gauteng (Q6391402)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Kensington is a hilly suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was established in 1897 by Max Langermann (after whom the thoroughfare Langermann Drive is named). It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and is bounded to the west by the suburb of Troyeville, to the east by Bedfordview and the north by Bruma and Cyrildene.

Johannesburg Trades Hall (Q18126325)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Trades Hall is one of the oldest Edwardian buildings in the city of Johannesburg. Beyond its architectural importance, the building has historical significance as the previous headquarters of the Trade Unions. It is associated with many historical events such as the 1922 Rand Revolt. In 1986 it was listed as one of Johannesburg's 100 most important heritage buildings.

Yeoville Water Tower (Q18390309)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Yeoville Water Tower is located in Harley and Percy Streets, Yeoville, near the fountain of Doornfontein; it was built in 1914 by the Sivewright's Johannesburg Waterworks, Estate and Exploration company. It was constructed with a reservoir to supply piped water to Johannesburg.

Berea Fire Station (Q18110398)
item type: building / fire station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Berea Fire station was constructed to serve the northern district of Johannesburg in 1910. It is situated in stand 927/8 on Mitchell Street in Berea. It is sometimes known as the Doll's House and it is the oldest functioning fire station in Johannesburg. The station was built in a time when Johannesburg had electricity but paraffin lamps were still providing lighting, which added to serious fire threats.

Natal Bank Building (Q18128525)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Natal Bank Building is situated on Stand 194 (previously 756) at 90 Market Street (now known as Albertina Sisulu Road) in the city of Johannesburg. Natal Bank was the second bank to open a branch in the city after Standard Bank.

Chamber of Mines Building (Q18345797)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Chamber of Mines building in Johannesburg was constructed by the company of Emely and Scott in 1921. It was then renovated by the partnership of Kef Gardiner & McFadyan. The building is owned by the South African Chamber of Mines which does not participate in mining directly but undertakes many functions and activities including research on behalf of the industry as a whole.

St Aidan's Anglican Church, Johannesburg (Q18392705)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

St Aidan's Anglican Church was established in Yeoville as a daughter church to St Augustine's church in Doornfontein. The foundation stone was laid on 14 December 1912. The nave was extended in 1922 and the building was finally completed in 1937.

Rand Water (Q19298933)
item type: company
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rand Water (previously known as the Rand Water Board) is a South African water utility that supplies potable water to the Gauteng province and other areas of the country and is the largest water utility in Africa. The water is drawn from numerous sources and is purified and supplied to industry, mining and local municipalities and is also involved in sanitation of waste water.

website: http://www.randwater.co.za

Villa Arcadia, Parktown (Q16902690)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Villa Arcadia is a mansion at 22 Oxford Road, Parktown, Johannesburg. It was built for Sir Lionel Phillips, one of the influential Randlords that dominated the early history of the city. Today it is one of the Parktown mansions that are preserved as part of the city's heritage.

David Webster House (Q17008572)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The David Webster House is at 13 Eleanor Street in Troyeville and it is important not only because this is where the anti-apartheid activist David Webster lived but it is also where he was killed by a government assassin. The house is still in private ownership but it is decorated to commemorate his life.

Cuthberts Building (Q18111456)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Cuthberts Building is a Victorian style building found in the city of Johannesburg. The building was designed by architects Stucke & Bannister. Construction of the building began in 1903 and completed in 1904. It rapidly became a major landmark in the mining town and was declared a National Monument on 27 June 1986.

Kimberley House (Q18126831)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Kimberley house at 44 Pritchard street is Victorian style and one of the oldest buildings in the city of Johannesburg. The building was constructed in 1892 by the architect Chris J Olley and the owners of the building ran a shop for various kinds of fashion wares. With limited resources at their disposal, the builders used oxen to fetch material ordered from England to Johannesburg.

Manners Mansions (Q18127808)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Manners Mansions was designed by the architectural firm of Emley and Williamson for African City Property Trust and was built in 1937-1939. The building is situated on stand 5198, at the corner of Jeppe and Joubert Streets in Johannesburg.

Markham Building (Q18127845)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Markham Building is a building in Johannesburg, South Africa, which when completed in 1897 was the tallest building in the city. The six-storey building has a clock tower housing a large clock imported from Scotland, with four faces. In the clock tower there was an artist studio. The building was known as "Markham's Folly" because it stood out clearly in the centre of Johannesburg. It was saved from demolition in 1978.

National Bank Building (Q18128533)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The National Bank Building also known as the Corner House is situated on the corner of Market and Simmonds Streets in Johannesburg. The address 38-40 Simmonds Street corresponds to Stand 205 F.

School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering (Q18378064)
item type: university
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering is one of seven schools in the University of the Witwatersrand's Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. The School offers 4-year undergraduate degrees and post-graduate degrees in chemical and metallurgical engineering.

School of Architecture and Planning (Q17089074)
item type: academic institution
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The School of Architecture and Planning is one of seven schools in the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Vrededorp, Gauteng (Q17111654)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Vrededorp is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Vrededorp is situated on the North-Western side of Johannesburg and is 1,764 m (5,788 ft) above sea level.

Chassidim Shul (Q18111056)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Chassidim Shul also known as the Chabad House is a synagogue in Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa built in 1963 and designed by the firm of Morgensten & Morgensten, the husband and wife team of Jacques Morgenstern and Riva Morgenstern. They met at the University of the Witwatersrand in the Department of Architecture in the 1940s and ran a successful and award-winning architectural practice in Johannesburg.

Rand Water Board Building (Q18393438)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Rand Water Board was established in 1903, tasked with supplying the water needed to support mining activities and sanitary living conditions for those living in the developing urban area of Johannesburg.

Industrial and Mining Water Research Unit (Q18575815)
item type: university
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Industrial and Mining Water Research Unit (abbreviated IMWaRU) is one of several research entities based in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It provides research as well as supervision to masters and doctorate students within the University, as well as consulting to industry.

Parktown Convent (Q18129232)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Parktown Convent for Girls (now Holy Family College) was a private girls' school founded in 1905. It is located in Parktown, South Africa. The school falls within Johannesburg East in Gauteng. In 1991, the school became Holy Family College.

website: http://hfc-jhb.co.za/

Cathedral of Christ The King, Johannesburg (Q18210338)
item type: Catholic cathedral
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Cathedral of Christ The King is a Catholic cathedral in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Beacon Royal (Q18378340)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Beacon Royal, also known as the Beacon Court, is an Art Deco block of flats constructed in 1934. This was a time of enormous growth as South Africa and the rest of the world emerged from the Great Depression. All over Yeoville and Bellevue in the years 1933 – 1934, blocks of flats were going up. The Beacon Court is located on stand 1044 at 55 Grafton Road/Louis Botha Avenue in Yeoville, Johannesburg. It was designed for PP Weisholtz by the brothers Obel and Obel who were also responsible for Astor Mansions in Jeppe Street and the Circle Court in Willie Street which overlooked Clarendon Circle at the time.

Rissik Street Post Office (Q18390487)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Rissik Street Post Office was built in 1897 during the time of Paul Kruger. Built and designed by President Paul Kruger's architect Sytze Wierda the Post Office was at one time the tallest building in Johannesburg.

Greek Orthodox Church, Joubert Park (Q17003939)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen is a historical Greek Orthodox Church in Johannesburg, designed by architect Hermann Kallenbach and built in 1912. It is a SAHRA protected site.

St Mary's Cathedral (Q16892944)
item type: Anglican or Episcopal cathedral
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Saint Mary's Cathedral, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, is the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg, South Africa. In late 2015 Xolani Dlwati was appointed as the dean until 27th of November 2022.

website: https://stmaryscathedral.joburg

Arop House (Q18109794)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Arop House is a building in Von Brandis & Kerk Street, Johannesburg, South Africa. Construction commenced in 1931 and completed in 1932 by Hermann Kallenbach, a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, along with his partners Kennedy and Furner. The building is characterized by balconies with steel balusterades and its name was inspired by a Soviet petroleum company with the same name As of 2014, the building is in a dilapidated state.

London House (Q18350213)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

London House is a building in the city of Johannesburg constructed by the firm of Emily and Williamson. The Application for Approval of Plans was received by the City Engineer's Department on 18 March 1935 and approved ten months later 20 January 1936. The building was completed on 6 March 1936 as entered on the valuation roll, meaning it took two months to complete the building or construction to the building was started without approval of plans.

Radoma Court (Q18393115)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Radoma Court was designed in 1937 by the Harold Le Roith practice of architects. It is situated prominently on a corner site in Bellevue, at stand 474 where Cavendish and Yeo Streets meet.

Bidvest Stadium (Q1927711)
item type: stadium
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bidvest Stadium, is a multipurpose sports stadium in the Braampark, suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Stafford, Gauteng (Q7596592)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Stafford is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It's an industrial suburb located south of the Johannesburg CBD, close to Springfield. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Theta, Gauteng (Q7783515)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Theta is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies south-west of the Johannesburg CBD and is adjacent to Booysens Reserve. The suburb was originally developed for science, industrial and research businesses. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Springfield, Gauteng (Q7580893)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Springfield is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small industrial suburb located south of the Johannesburg CBD, close to La Rochelle. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

St Boniface Church Germiston (Q7592678)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

St Boniface Church is the mother church of the Anglican parish of Germiston, Gauteng which also includes the chapelries of St Mary and St John in Lambton, and St Mark in Rosedeep. The parish is part of the Diocese of the Highveld, which is in turn part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (previously known as The Church of the Province of Southern Africa).

website: http://www.anglicanparishofgermiston.org.za/

Tulisa Park (Q7852098)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Tulisa Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

St Catherine's School, Germiston (Q7592766)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Sydenham (Q7659764)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Sydenham is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The suburb is surrounded by the area of Orchards, Orange Grove and other smaller suburbs.

Trojan, Gauteng (Q7845095)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Trojan is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region A of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Turf Club, Gauteng (Q7854856)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Turf Club is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb south of the Johannesburg CBD and located next to the suburb of Turffontein. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

UJ Stadium (Q7864745)
item type: stadium
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The UJ Stadium is a multi-sports stadium facility in Westdene, Johannesburg. It is mainly used for rugby games.

Steeledale (Q7605807)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Steeledale is an industrial suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

The Hill, Gauteng (Q7739675)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Hill is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The area lies to the south of the Johannesburg CBD and is surrounded by the suburbs of Regents Park, Rosettenville and Linmeyer. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Towerby (Q7829807)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Towerby is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. This small suburb is tucked between Forest Hill and Rosettenville. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Tygerberg building (Q7859848)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Tygerberg is an apartment highrise complex in Tudhope Avenue, Berea, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is 25 storeys tall. It overlooks Ponte Tower and Ellis Park Stadium. It is located near the Ponte City Apartments building.

Townsview (Q7830270)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Townsview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Trams in Johannesburg (Q7833228)
item type: tram system
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Johannesburg tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Johannesburg, South Africa, for just over 70 years until the start of the 1960s.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Defunct town tramway systems by city
Turffontein (Q7854876)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Turffontein is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Suideroord (Q7635416)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Suideroord is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

The Gardens, Gauteng (Q7735864)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Gardens is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. A small northern suburb that is surrounded by Highlands North, Orchards, and Oaklands, it is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Troyeville (Q7847056)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Troyeville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg CBD, with the suburbs of New Doornfontein, Bertrams and Lorentzville to the north, Fairview to the south and Kensington to its east. The main road through the suburb is Albertina Sisulu Road, which connects the CBD to Johannesburg's eastern suburbs and towns of the East Rand. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

The Gables, Gauteng (Q7735587)
item type: town / Wikimedia disambiguation page
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Gables is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Maryvale, Gauteng (Q6781789)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Maryvale is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 3. It is a tiny triangular suburb surrounded by the suburbs of Orchards and Sydenham.

Oaklands, Gauteng (Q7074074)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Oaklands is an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Johannesburg Region E. It is a small suburb surrounded by the suburbs of Houghton Estate, Norwood, Orchards, The Gardens and Highlands North.

Park Central, Gauteng (Q7137666)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Park Central is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Malvern, Gauteng (Q6745040)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Malvern is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Situated east of the Johannesburg CBD, it lies south of Kensington and north of the industrial suburb of Denver. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and lies just west of Bedfordview in the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.

Marshalltown, Gauteng (Q6773867)
item type: house / town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Marshalltown is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Norwood, Gauteng (Q7061580)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Norwood is a rapidly gentrifying suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It borders the suburbs of Orange Grove and Houghton. It is a garden suburb, with many of its homes dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. It is also one of the more popular dining spots in the city, renowned for its "celebrated restaurants" [1] and ethnic mix of cuisine, mainly based on Grant Avenue. Other suburbs with a similar atmosphere, popular for their streetlife and dining include Melville, Newtown, Parkhurst and Greenside. The suburb has a "distinctive cosmopolitan atmosphere" [2], and the residents comprise a mix of cultures including Jewish, Muslim, and West African. Norwood Primary School is based in the suburb. Some of its more well-known inhabitants include the anti-apartheid activist Helen Joseph and the actor Patrick Mynhardt.

Old Wanderers (Q7085385)
item type: defunct sports venue
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Old Wanderers was a cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ground hosted 22 Test matches from 1895 to 1939, before being rebuilt as Johannesburg's Park Station in 1946. It has since been replaced by the New Wanderers Stadium.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Defunct cricket grounds in South Africa
Mayfair, Gauteng (Q6797105)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mayfair is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is west of the Johannesburg CBD and is adjacent to Fordsburg. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Moffat View (Q6890350)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Moffat View is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The area lies to the south of the Johannesburg CBD. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Mulbarton, Gauteng (Q6933782)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mulbarton is a suburb that is located in the South of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Oakdene, Gauteng (Q7073820)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Oakdene is a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Ophirton (Q7097988)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ophirton is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. This industrial suburb lies three kilometers to south-west of the Johannesburg CBD. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, adjacent to Booysens.

Ormonde, Gauteng (Q7103458)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ormonde is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Palmietfontein Airport (Q7128392)
item type: airport
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Palmietfontein Airport (Afrikaans: Palmietfontein Lughawe) was an airport situated to the south of Johannesburg (Katlehong), South Africa, from 1945 to 1952.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Defunct airports in South Africa
New Centre, Gauteng (Q7006469)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

New Centre is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

New Doornfontein (Q7007012)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

New Doornfontein is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Observatory, Gauteng (Q7075455)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Observatory is a suburb in Johannesburg's east and is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality; it borders the suburbs of Houghton Estate, Cyrildene, Linksfield, Bellevue, Bellevue East and Dewetshof.

Oxford Shul (Q7115456)
item type: synagogue
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Oxford Shul is an Orthodox synagogue in Riviera, Johannesburg near the suburbs of Saxonwold, Houghton and Killarney. The congregation was established in 1943 and moved into its current building in 1962. The sanctuary is one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, with seating for 1,500 congregants.

Parktown (Q7138733)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Parktown is a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the first suburb north of the inner city (both chronologically and geographically). It is affectionately known as one of the Parks, others including Parkview, Parkwood, Westcliff, Parktown North, Parkhurst and Forest Town. Parktown is one of Johannesburg's largest suburbs, neighbouring Hillbrow, Braamfontein and Milpark to the South; Berea and Houghton to the East; Killarney and Forest Town to the North, and Westcliff, Melville and Richmond to the West. Originally established by the Randlords in the 1890s, Parktown is now home to many businesses, hospitals, schools, churches and restaurants, whilst still maintaining quiet residential areas. It is also home to three of the five campuses of the University of the Witwatersrand including the education campus, medical school and Wits Business School. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Parkview, Gauteng (Q7138740)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Parkview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It borders the suburb of Greenside and overlooks Zoo Lake, a park which lies on the opposite side of Jan Smuts Avenue from the Johannesburg Zoo. All of its streets are named after Irish counties. Parkview is one of the oldest suburbs in Johannesburg, and much of its historic architecture remains intact. The Alliance Française in Johannesburg is situated in Parkview.

Luthuli House (Q6705782)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Chief Albert Luthuli House in Johannesburg, more simply known as Luthuli House, is the headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC) and other subsidiary organizations. The name "Luthuli House" is frequently used as a metonym for the national leadership of the African National Congress.

Street address: 54 Pixley Ka Isaka Seme St, Johannesburg, 2001 (from Wikidata)

Observatory Ridge, Johannesburg (Q7075469)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Observatory Ridge is the highest point in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is 1,808 metres (5,932 ft) above sea level. It is in the suburb of Observatory.

Ellis Park Stadium disaster (Q4461749)
item type: stadium disaster
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Ellis Park Stadium disaster was a crowd crush that occurred on 11 April 2001, claiming the lives of 43 people. Surpassing the Oppenheimer Stadium disaster, it became the worst sporting accident in South African history. Spectators poured into the Ellis Park Stadium in the city of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, for the local Soweto derby association football match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. There was a 60,000 capacity crowd in the stadium, but reports suggest a further 30,000 more fans were trying to gain entry to the stadium. Reports also suggest that 120,000 fans were admitted into the stadium. An Orlando Pirates equaliser sparked a further surge by the fans trying to gain entry as they scrambled to see what had happened. The match was stopped after approximately 34 minutes of play when authorities received an unusually high volume of reported injuries.

120 End Street (Q4548102)
item type: skyscraper
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

120 End Street is a skyscraper in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is 28 storeys tall. The three wings of the building are set at 120 degrees from each other so that each apartment in the building has a clear view.

2005 African Youth Championship (Q4603920)
item type: sports season
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The 2005 African Youth Championship was an international football competition that took place between 15 and 29 January 2005. The tournament was hosted by Benin and also served as qualification for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Crocodile River (Q3643145)
item type: river
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Crocodile River (Tswana: Oodi, Afrikaans: Krokodilrivier) is a river in South Africa. At its confluence with the Marico River, the Limpopo River is formed.

7th Street (Q4644189)
item type: road
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

7th Street is a street located in the Johannesburg suburb of Melville. It is lined with many restaurants and bars, which are mostly frequented by students from the nearby University of Johannesburg. It is featured in the South African soap opera 7de Laan.

East Rand (Q3307172)
item type: geographical feature / urban area
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5FM (Q3643144)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

5FM is a South African FM radio station forming part of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), South Africa's public broadcaster. 5FM follows a Top 40 music format aimed at a youth market, together with news and sports coverage.

website: http://5fm.co.za

Johannesburg South Africa Temple (Q3845280)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Johannesburg South Africa Temple is the 36th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

website: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples/details/johannesburg-south-africa-temple?lang=eng

Rosettenville (Q3644552)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rosettenville is a working class suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the south of the city centre.

1984 South African Open (Q3965425)
item type: SA Tennis Open / tennis tournament edition
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The 1984 South African Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Johannesburg, South Africa that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix and the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 81st edition of the tournament. The women's tournament was held from 30 April through 6 May 1984 while the men's tournament was held from 19 November through 25 November 1984.

Dorkay House (Q20981518)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Dorkay House is situated on Portion 168 of Farm Turnfontein at 5–7 Eloff Street, Johannesburg, South Africa. It was constructed in 1952 and was designed by architect Colman Segal (1923–1988). It takes its name from the original owner, Dora Kotzen.

Ke-Ditselana Tourism and Multi-Cultural Village (Q22082381)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ke-ditselana tourism and multi-cultural village is built in vosloorus extension 20 Ekurhuleni in 2004. Its main purpose is to teach tourists and local people about the South Africa culture.

The Wilds Municipal Nature Reserve (Q24233877)
item type: park
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Wilds is an inner city park and nature reserve in the suburb of Houghton, in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The park consists of 16 hectares of indigenous vegetation on the sides of two rocky koppies or hills with views of the city of Johannesburg and its suburbs. Through the 1990s the park gained a reputation for being highly dangerous and crime ridden, however, it has since become "rejuvenated" due to the efforts of volunteers.

Athlone Boys High School (Q24233952)
item type: secondary school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Athlone Boys' High School is a public English medium high school for boys located in, Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Consolidated Building (Q28223455)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Consolidated Building, or ‘Johnnies’ as it became affectionately known, is an office building situated in the Marshalltown district of Johannesburg, on stands 149, 150 and 152 at 84/86 Fox Street and 29/31 Harrison Street. In 1895, before the Consolidated Building was built, these stands were home to the Jewish Social Club and in 1897, Johannesburg Waterworks had its offices there.

Lindfield House (Q28868511)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lindfield House is a Victorian Museum in Auckland Park, near Johannesburg, South Africa, built circa 1909–1910. The original plans have been lost. The first owners of the house were a Dr and Mrs Stanwell, who lived there until 1924. The house is named after a village in England.

Joburg Theatre (Q24233916)
item type: theatre building / organization
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Joburg Theatre Complex, previously known as the Johannesburg Civic Theatre, is a group of four theatres situated in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1962, refurnished in the late 1980s and reopened in the early 1990s before it was re-branded in 2009. It is a venue that stages both Broadway musicals and home-grown productions, and is one of the few theatres open in Johannesburg for independent productions.

Street address: 163 Civic Boulevard, Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2001 (from Wikidata)

website: http://www.joburgtheatre.com/

Circle Court, Johannesburg (Q25349526)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Circle Court is a residential building in Johannesburg, Hillbrow was designed by the company of brothers Luis Theodore Obel and Mark Obel in 1936. They both favoured the Art Deco style of design. During the time when the building was constructed, Clarendon circle was a famous landmark with a large traffic circle surrounding an island of grass and palm trees, this was replaced by traffic lights in 1959. Luis Theodore Obed lived in this building and died here in 1956

Orchards, Johannesburg (Q28868540)
item type: human-geographic territorial entity
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Orchards is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It is a small suburb surrounded by the wealthy suburb of Oaklands as well as Norwood, Sydenham and The Gardens.

Chris Hani Memorial (Q20981430)
item type: memorial
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Johannesburg Gas Works (Q23680058)
item type: building / industrial location
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Johannesburg Gas Works also known as Egoli Gas Works established in 1892, is one of the most historically and architecturally significant industrial sites in Johannesburg. Not only does it have intact machinery to show the production of gas but it also has structurally sound buildings which in their entirety show the process from how gas was produced out of coal up to how it was distributed to the public. Gas production is now extinct but the buildings remain as a reminder of what used to be on the site. The Gas tanks are a major landmark in Johannesburg and make their appearance in most portraits showing Johannesburg’s skyline. The Gas Works also have a rich workers history, which exemplifies the way in which workers were segregated during apartheid.

Corruption Watch (Q25345612)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Corruption Watch is a South African anti-corruption non-profit organisation that sets out to monitor and expose acts of corruption that involve public resources and donated charitable resources in South Africa. The various focus areas in which the organisation monitors and exposes corruption include corruption in the education sector, police corruption, leadership appointments (mainly in institutions that support democracy), corruption in the mining applications processes and its effects of communities, corruption in land ownership and tenure, beneficial ownership transparency, and public procurement. Whistleblowers are an essential source for the organisation as their whole operational mode is built upon reports received from whistleblowers.

website: https://www.corruptionwatch.org.za

Dr Xuma house (Q20981521)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Dr. Xuma's house was one of two houses to escape the destruction of Sophiatown, South Africa by the government in the late 1950s, it is also a landmark which belonged to Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma who was a medical doctor and the President of the African National Congress (ANC) and Chairperson of the Western Areas Anti-Expropriation and Proper Housing Committee. Construction of the house was completed in 1935 and named Empilweni which roughly translates to "the place of life". Xuma and his second wife Madie Hall Xuma lived there until his own property was expropriated when Sophiatown was declared a White area in terms of the Native Resettlement Act of 1954, and he had vacated it by 1957.

Anglo-Boer War Memorial (Q22919806)
item type: war memorial
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Anglo-Boer War Memorial was originally called the Rand Regiments Memorial and dedicated to the men of the Witwatersrand who joined as British soldiers in the Rand Regiments and who had lost their lives during the Second Boer War (1899–1902). The memorial is now next door to the South African National Museum of Military History. It was rededicated on 10 October 1999 to all people who died during the Second Boer War and renamed the Anglo-Boer War Memorial.

Lauriston Court (Q24233890)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lauriston Court is a residential building in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg. The building was designed by the prominent architecture firm, Emley and Williamson and completed in 1936.

St. Mary's Anglican Church, Rosettenville (Q24883745)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

St. Mary's Anglican Church, a church in the Diocese of Christ the King, built at the beginning of the twentieth century, but before 1907, is one of the first churches built in Rosettenville, Johannesburg. The church was built with a quarried natural stone which was provided by Leo Rosettenstein, the township owner after whom Rosettenville was named. The building was designed by the firm of Baker and Fleming. The churchwardens continue to take good care of the building and it remains in pristine condition.

Soundcity Radio Network (Q28129319)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Soundcity Radio Network is a Nigerian FM radio and nationwide digital radio station that follows a Top 40 music format and is owned by Alphavision Multimedia, a subsidiary of the Consolidated Media Associates (CMA). Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, Soundcity Radio Network broadcasts nationally to a youth audience.

website: https://www.soundcity.tv

Auckland Park Academy of Excellence (Q4819539)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

website: http://www.apax.co.za/

Bruma, Gauteng (Q4978782)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bruma is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is noted for a small lake (being treated to reduce water-borne pollution), and for its popular flea market which sold souvenirs from across Africa. The old flea market was closed due to the development of a Chinese mall. Around 50 art and craft traders operate from nearby Oppenheimer Street and continues to attract many visitors and tourists. The area surrounding Bruma Lake has been redeveloped in the last few years. It has a small mall known as Asia City. The mall mainly sells goods imported from Asia.

City and Suburban, Gauteng (Q5123527)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

City and Suburban is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, just east of the city centre. It is a relatively small residential and business area, inhabited by 2 703 (99,4%) an overwhelming Black majority, according to the 2011-census. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Amalgam, Gauteng (Q4739332)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Amalgam is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region B.

Arthur Block Park (Q4798032)
item type: sports venue
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)
Aspen Hills, Gauteng (Q4807820)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Aspen Hills, Gauteng is a gated suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F (former Region 9), south east of the city centre.

Benrose (Q4890182)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Benrose is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Slightly south of the Johannesburg CBD, it is next door to Jeppestown and Belgravia. It is light industry and commercial suburb. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Evolutionary Studies Institute (Q4893546)
item type: research institute
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) is a paleontological, paleoanthropological and archeological research institute operated through the Faculty of Science of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously known as the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research (BPI) it was renamed the Evolutionary Studies Institute in 2013 to better showcase the scope of its research.

website: https://www.wits.ac.za/esi/

Christian Brothers' College, Boksburg (Q5109352)
item type: boarding school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Christian Brothers' College, Boksburg is a Roman Catholic private school located in the town of Boksburg (Ekurhuleni) in Gauteng, South Africa. The school accommodates children from grade 000 to grade 12. The school is made up of the pre-grade, primary and high school.

website: http://www.cbc.org.za/

Crown Gardens (Q5189363)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Crown Gardens is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Belgravia, Gauteng (Q4882694)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Belgravia is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Brenthurst Gardens (Q4961686)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Brenthurst Gardens is a 45-acre (180,000 m2) private garden in Johannesburg, South Africa attached to Brenthurst Estate, the residence of the Oppenheimer family, led by Nicky Oppenheimer.

Commissioner Street (Q5152797)
item type: road
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Commissioner Street is a major one-way street (westwards) in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It runs from the M31 (Joe Slovo Drive; Sivewright Avenue) to the R41 (Main Reef Road), and is indicated as part of the R24. The Carlton Centre, the 2nd-tallest building in Africa (the tallest office building in Africa), is located on the street, as is the southern end of Newtown. There is little evidence of Commissioner Street's exact origin, although it is known that this street played a role in the development of Johannesburg.

Crown, Gauteng (Q5189285)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Crown is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It is immediately south-west of the Johannesburg CBD.

Bellevue, Gauteng (Q4883886)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bellevue is an inner city neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Close to the Johannesburg CBD with the neighbourhood surrounded by Yeoville and Observatory. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It shares the same praise and notoriety as its surrounding neighbourhood Yeoville.

Crown North (Q5189416)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Crown North is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Auckland Park Theological Seminary (Q4819541)
item type: seminary
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Auckland Park Theological Seminary (ATS) is a Pentecostal and Charismatic theological seminary. It is based in the Johannesburg suburb of Auckland Park, and has campuses in Mthatha and Durban, as well as offering distance learning qualifications. Its principal is Prof. WJ Hattingh, also a professor at the University of Johannesburg. It has engaged in theological training and education for the past 50 years, and is the oldest institution of its kind in Southern Africa. It is registered with the South African Qualifications Authority, and offers various certificates, as well as the undergraduate BTh, and the postgraduate BA Honours, MA, and D Lit et Phil, all in Theology.

website: https://www.ats.ac.za

Bagleyston (Q4841989)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bagleyston is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies north-east of the Johannesburg CBD and is surrounded by Sydenham, Rouxville and Orchards. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Bellevue East (Q4883928)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bellevue East is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Bertrams, Gauteng (Q4895842)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bertrams is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs of New Doornfontein and Lorentzville, with Troyeville to the south. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Brixton, Gauteng (Q4971711)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Brixton is a predominantly working class suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the site of the landmark Sentech Tower, and is near the suburbs of Auckland Park and Melville.

Cheltondale (Q5090260)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Cheltondale is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Chrisville (Q5113691)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Chrisville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. A large part of the suburb is currently taken up by a mine dump.

Berea (Q4891158)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Berea is an inner city neighbourhood of Johannesburg, in the South African province of Gauteng. It is east and adjacent to the Johannesburg CBD. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Braamfontein Explosion (Q4953143)
item type: explosion
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Braamfontein Explosion was an explosion of a freight train carrying dynamite in Braamfontein, a suburb of Johannesburg, in 1896. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.

Alan Manor (Q4707236)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Alan Manor is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9.

Auckland Park (Q4819538)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Auckland Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies on a gentle slope, and is in close proximity to the suburbs of Melville, Brixton, Westdene and Richmond. Auckland Park is one of the few suburbs close to the Johannesburg city centre that has remained largely unaffected by the recent migration of Johannesburg residents to the city's northern suburbs. Auckland Park is home to a mix of nationalities and cultures, and the suburb is well known as the location of the South African Broadcasting Corporation headquarters.

Braamfontein Werf (Q4953144)
item type: suburb
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Braamfontein Werf is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Braamfontein Werf is part of the area known as Milpark, along with small parts of neighboring suburbs like Parktown.

Chancellor House (Q5070773)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Chancellor House is a law office building situated at 25 Fox Street, Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg, that once housed the Mandela and Tambo law firm of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. It is a provincial heritage site.

City Deep, Gauteng (Q5123151)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

City Deep is an industrial suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Locally is a large container terminal of Transnet Freight Rail in operation, the most significant dry port of the country, and the Joburg Market (formerly named as Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market).

Fordsburg Square (Q15218002)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Fordsburg Square in Fordsburg is a thriving square that is the site of a flea market was recently known for being run-down. This square in Johannesburg is the location of a battle between striking miners and the South African police, army and air force.

Mayfield Park, Gauteng (Q15252279)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mayfield Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9. The area code is 2091. It is home to South Downs Country Club [18 hole golf course] and the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve. The Klip Rivier [stone river] runs through it and there is a recreation centre at the entrance to the nature reserve.

Ansteys Building (Q15181285)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Anstey's Building is an art deco building in the city of Johannesburg. The building took its name from the original owner of the building, Norman Anstey, founder of one of the best known department stores in the city (and mayor from 1913 to 1915). The Norman Anstey and Company department store was housed in the four-storey podium of the building, which features a curved facade to address the street corner.

Roseacre, Gauteng (Q15273302)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Roseacre is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Yeoville (Q8052507)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Yeoville is an inner city neighbourhood of Johannesburg, in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. It is located in Region F (previously Region 8). Originally intended as a "well-to-do" neighbourhood, it instead developed into a white working class and lower middle class area as the city expanded northwards and public rail access improved. From the 1920s onwards it became a significant enclave of German Jewish and Eastern European Jewish immigrants. It was designated as a "white area" under the Group Areas Act during the apartheid era. It became a "grey area" in the 1980s, as a limited number of non-white residents began to rent in the area. From the end of the 1970s, a growing number of night clubs and galleries opened in Yeoville, or relocated from Hillbrow. This led to the neighbourhood becoming the leading nightspot in the city.The white population began to decline in the 1970s, and this white flight accelerated in the early to mid 1990s, with most residents migrating to the northern suburbs. Today, it is widely known and celebrated for its diverse, pan-African population but notorious for its high levels of crime, poverty and degradation.

Wemmer Pan (Q7982204)
item type: geographical feature
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Wemmer Pan is a lake and recreational area in Johannesburg, South Africa. It's located to the south of the city centre, in the suburb of La Rochelle.

Jan Hofmeyer, Gauteng (Q15229307)
item type: town
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Village Main, Gauteng (Q7930665)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Village Main is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb lies less than a kilometre south of the Johannesburg CBD. Once mining land, now consists of light industry and one of the city's main freeways, the M2 runs through the suburb. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

North Doornfontein (Q15262506)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

North Doornfontein is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Victoria, Gauteng (Q7926503)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Victoria is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It is a small suburb located north-east of the city centre surrounded by Norwood to its north, the Houghton Estate to its west and south, while Orange Grove lies to the east.

Westcliff, Gauteng (Q7987273)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Westcliff is a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It has many old mansions, and views over the Northern Suburbs. It is the site of the Westcliff Hotel also known as the Four Seasons Hotel. With a total wealth of $235 billion, Johannesburg is Africa’s wealthiest city, and most of the wealth in Johannesburg is concentrated in just four suburbs: Sandhurst, Houghton, Hyde Park and Westcliff.

Alhambra Theatre (Q13034222)
item type: theatre building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Alhambra Theatre is a theatre that opened in 1977 in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Wits Theatre Complex (Q8028520)
item type: arts centre
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Wits Theatre Complex is a performing arts complex in Braamfontein, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is part of the University of the Witwatersrand, although it also caters for professional companies, dance studios and schools. It is run by the University's Performing Arts Administration (PAA).

Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg (Q8052860)
item type: seminary
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg was one of the first Yeshivot established in South Africa. Since its founding in 1978, it has played an important - though understated - role in the South African religious community. It is based in Glenhazel, Johannesburg. It was established and headed by Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Azriel Goldfein until his death in 2007, and is now headed by his sons Rabbi Avraham and Rabbi David Goldfein. The Yeshiva accommodates students from across the spectrum of Orthodoxy. The Hirsch Lyons Primary and High Schools are associated with the Yeshivah.

Lake View Estate (Q15241357)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lake View Estate is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality within the Gauteng Province.

Reuven, Gauteng (Q15272387)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Reuven is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Westdene dam disaster (Q7987333)
item type: traffic collision
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Westdene dam disaster was a bus accident that took place in Westdene, near Johannesburg, South Africa, on 27 March 1985. The driver of the bus was Coloured (mixed-race individual) and the passengers were all white, which caused some contention. Of the 72 occupants, 42 drowned inside the submerged bus and two were declared deceased shortly after being taken to a nearby hospital. The remaining 30, including the bus driver, were rescued.

Alexander Theatre (Q13034217)
item type: theatre building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Alexander Theatre (also known as The Alex) is a theatre in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Judith's Paarl (Q15229818)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Judith's Paarl is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs of Lorentzville and Bezuidenhout Valley, with Troyeville and Kensington to the south. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Shell House (Q30604109)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Shell House is an office building located at 51 Plein Street, Johannesburg. It was donated to South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) by the oil company Shell. The ANC has governed the country since 1994. The ANC is now located in Luthuli House.

Street address: 1 Plein Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Wemmer (Q61359668)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Wemmer is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 800 m south-southeast of City Hall.

Bezuidenhout Valley (Q31740301)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bezuidenhout Valley is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The area lies to the east of the Johannesburg CBD and is surrounded by the suburbs of Kensington to the south and Observatory to the north. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It is colloquially known as the Bez Valley.

Langlaagte North (Q34472421)
item type: human-geographic territorial entity
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Langlaagte North is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is west of the Johannesburg CBD and is adjacent to Mayfair West. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Temple Israel, Johannesburg (Q51884248)
item type: synagogue
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Temple Israel is the oldest of eleven Progressive synagogues in South Africa. It is a provincial heritage site, built in the Art Deco style by architect Hermann Kallenbach. It is located in the Johannesburg suburb of Hillbrow. It is an affiliate of the South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ), which is part of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ).

Paarlshoop (Q61359123)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Parlshoop 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.

Rouxville, Johannesburg (Q61359930)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rouxville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) northeast of City Hall.

Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Q41568324)
item type: facility
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is a professional organisation for the mining and metallurgical industry in southern Africa.

website: http://www.saimm.co.za

Cleveland, Gauteng (Q38249271)
item type: human-geographic territorial entity
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Cleveland is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Its now a light industrial suburb. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Congregational Church, Turffontein (Q42417752)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Congregational Church in Turffontein, South Africa, was constructed in 1897 and opened in 1906 by Lord Selborne. The structure is decorated with Gothic features and at some point it became a community hall.

Doornfontein Synagogue (Q51884242)
item type: synagogue
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Doornfontein Synagogue or Lions Synagogue is the oldest synagogue still in use in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Cottesloe, Johannesburg (Q61356606)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Cottesloe is a small suburb west of downtown Johannesburg, around 3 km northwest of City Hall, west of Braamfontein, north of Vrededorp and Jan Hofmeyer, and south of Parktown. It is named by the first Minister of Lands, Adam Jameson, after Cottesloe, Western Australia, around 11 km southwest of Perth.

Village Deep, Johannesburg (Q61359687)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Village Deep is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 1.3 km south of City Hall. It is an industrial suburb one kilometer from north to south and less than 300 meters from east to west. To the west is the Genesis Landfill Facility, to the south is the railway and Stafford, to the east is Eloff Street, to the southeast is Robinson Deep, to the northeast is Selby, and to the north is New Centre. Village Deep was founded on February 14, 1934, on Turffontein and Booysen Estate farms. The name, which was originally The Village, comes from the nearby Village Deep Levels gold mine.

Wanderers View (Q61359669)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Wanderers View is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, about 1.2 km north of City Hall.

Munro Drive (Q65040503)
item type: mountain pass
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Johannesburg riots, 2019 (Q67124109)
item type: riot
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The 2019 Johannesburg riots occurred in the South African city of Johannesburg from 1–5 September 2019, leading to the deaths of at least seven people. The riots were xenophobic in nature, targeting foreign nationals from other African countries. Retaliatory actions by rioters in other African nations was taken against South African brands. The South African Institute of Race Relations stated that the riots were similar in nature and origin to the 2008 xenophobic riots that also occurred in Johannesburg.

Empire Exhibition, South Africa (Q30626078)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Empire Exhibition, South Africa, held in Johannesburg, was intended to mark that city's jubilee and was opened by the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa on 15 September 1936. It was the first exhibition held in the Union of South Africa following two earlier exhibitions in Cape Colony in 1877 and 1892. The idea of an empire exhibition in South Africa was first discussed in 1934 by the Buy Empire Committee of Johannesburg. On 9 January 1935, the Grand Council of the Federation of British Industries passed a resolution for a proposal to hold an Empire Exhibition in Johannesburg in 1936 in conjunction with the Golden Jubilee of the city.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: 1937 disestablishments in South Africa
Baptist Church, Troyeville (Q48791043)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Baptist church of Troyeville is the oldest Baptist church in South Africa dating from 1897. The church is still active in Troyeville and it classifies itself as a multicultural evangelical church aiming at reaching out to the local community.

President Street Synagogue (Q51884238)
item type: synagogue
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

President Street Synagogue was the first synagogue in Transvaal, South Africa.

Marist Brothers Linmeyer (Q55622192)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Marist Brothers Linmeyer (Marian College) is a coeducational school, pre-primary through high school, in Linmeyer, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Crosby, Gauteng (Q34465148)
item type: human-geographic territorial entity
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Crosby is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is west of the Johannesburg CBD and is adjacent to Mayfair West. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

South African History Archive (Q48797024)
item type: historical archive
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The South African History Archive Trust, better known as SAHA, is an independent archive dedicated to documenting, supporting and promoting greater awareness of past and contemporary struggles for justice through archival practice, outreach, and the utilisation of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (PAIA). SAHA was founded in the 1980s as increasing state censorship in South Africa threatened to obscure the struggle against human rights violations and the oppressive political regime of apartheid. Since 2022, SAHA has been based at the Wits University after a 10-year relocation to Women's Gaol Museum, Constitution Hill where it took over responsibility for archiving the Constitution Hill Trust records in addition to its original collection.

website: http://www.saha.org.za/

Unigray (Q61359125)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Unigray is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 6 km southeast of City Hall. It lies north of Queenshaven, east of Elladoone, and west of Electron.

Corner House (Q65052689)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Corner House (also known as Old Corner House) in the central business district of Johannesburg was the headquarters of one of the largest mining conglomerates in South Africa. This building's unique history earned it a declaration as a national heritage monument in 1999.

Linksfield, Gauteng (Q30627242)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Linksfield is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a suburb lying north-east of the Johannesburg CBD and is surrounded southerly by Linksfield Ridge, easterly by Linksfield North and Bedford, St Andrews and Senderwood. Linksfield itself is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. On the southerly side and over the ridge are the areas of Cyrildene, Observatory and Morninghill, but these suburbs are not visible to Linksfield as they are hidden behind the Linksfield Ridge.

Mayfair West, Gauteng (Q34459072)
item type: human-geographic territorial entity
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mayfair West is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is west of the Johannesburg CBD and is adjacent to Mayfair. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Oriental Plaza (Q104466194)
item type: shopping center
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Oriental Plaza, known locally as the Plaza is a large shopping centre and tourist attraction in Fordsburg, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Consisting of multiple connected malls, it was created for Indian traders who were forcibly removed from nearby Fietas by the apartheid government.

Murder of Babita Deokaran (Q108551501)
item type: murder
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Babita Deokaran was a South African whistleblower murdered for reporting corruption at the Gauteng Department of Health where she was working as the acting chief director financial accounting officer.

City Power (Q86664251)
item type: organization
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

City Power Johannesburg (or Joburg City Power) is a state owned power utility, wholly owned by the City of Johannesburg. Its responsibilities include buying electricity from power producers and supplying it to the public, and installing and maintaining the electrical infrastructure in the city of Johannesburg. It supplies electricity to 3.2 million people in the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area.

website: https://www.citypower.co.za

Beit Emanuel Progressive Synagogue (Q85746396)
item type: synagogue
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Beit Emanuel is a progressive synagogue located in Parktown, Johannesburg. The synagogue was established in 1954 and is one of the largest progressive Jewish congregations in South Africa. It is an affiliate of the South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ), which is part of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ).

website: https://www.beitemanuel.co.za/

2022 Boksburg tanker explosion (Q115860246)
item type: explosion
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. Nearby infrastructure was damaged by the explosion.

Parkview Library (Q125503764)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)
Elcedes (Q5353844)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Elcedes is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Doornfontein (Q5297240)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Doornfontein is an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, located to the east of the city centre, Region 8. In the 1930s, it attracted many Jewish immigrants, becoming the main hub for the city's Jewish community. Black African residents, then a minority in the suburb, lived in slum-yards. Under the Slums Clearance Act 1934, the slum-yards were cleared and many residents were relocated to Orlando, Soweto. Since the late 1970s, Doornfontein and other inner-city suburbs of Johannesburg have underdone high levels of white flight to the city's northern suburbs.

Eagles Nest, Gauteng (Q5325360)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Eagles Nest is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Eastcliff, Gauteng (Q5329855)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Eastcliff is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the city.

Electron, Gauteng (Q5358128)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Electron is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Elandspark (Q5353433)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Elandspark is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9.

Cyrildene (Q5200939)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Cyrildene (simplified Chinese: 西里尔德纳; traditional Chinese: 西里爾德納) is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, predominantly home to Chinese people. The area is found east of the Johannesburg CBD and is surrounded by the suburbs of Linksfield, Observatory and Bruma. It is noted for a new Chinatown that exists on Derrick Avenue. This new Chinatown is now considered as the main Chinatown in Johannesburg, replacing the declining Chinatown on Commissioner Street in the inner-city of Johannesburg. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Droste Park (Q5308607)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Droste Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 8.

2023 Johannesburg gas leak (Q120411467)
item type: occurrence
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

On 5 July 2023, a gas leak killed 17 people, including three children, in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa. Ten other people were hospitalised.

2023 Johannesburg building fire (Q122146423)
item type: conflagration / structure fire
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

On 31 August 2023 at around 01:30 SAST, a fire engulfed an illegally occupied government-owned building in Johannesburg, South Africa; 77 people were killed and 88 others were injured. It was one of the deadliest fires in South African history.

Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (Q123375154)
item type: Holocaust museum
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC) is a Holocaust and genocide centre situated in Forest Town in Johannesburg, South Africa. The building fronts Jan Smuts Avenue, a major road in the city. The centre opened in its permanent purpose-built site in 2019, having operated from a temporary site since 2008.

Street address: 1 Duncombe Rd, Forest Town, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa (from Wikidata)

website: https://www.jhbholocaust.co.za/

Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (Q123450720)
item type: museum
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF) is a contemporary art gallery in Forest Town in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated close to Johannesburg Zoo and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. It opened in 2020 and is housed in a heritage site that underwent an extensive renovation to meet the needs of the foundation. The foundation focuses on exhibiting art and artists from the Global South.

Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Land Affairs (Q5527904)
item type: government agency
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment (GDARDE) is a department of the Gauteng provincial government in South Africa. It is responsible for agricultural affairs, environmental protection and nature conservation within Gauteng. It was formerly known as the Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment (GDACE).

website: http://www.gdard.gpg.gov.za/

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg (Q1364650)
item type: Roman Catholic metropolitan archdiocese
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Archdiocese of Johannesburg (Latin: Ioannesburgum) is the a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the metropolitan see of an ecclesiastical province.

website: http://www.catholicjhb.org.za/

South African Institute of Race Relations (Q2304307)
item type: nonprofit organization
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is a research and policy organisation in South Africa. The IRR was founded in 1929 to improve and report upon race relations in South Africa between the politically dominant white group and the black, coloured, and Indian populations,: 25  making the Institute "one of the oldest liberal institutions in the country".

website: https://irr.org.za

Stanbic Bank (Q7597999)
item type: bank / financial institution / business
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

website: https://www.stanbicbank.com.gh/

Country Club Johannesburg (Q15395816)
item type: golf course / golf club
Summary from Nederlands / Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki)

De Country Club Johannesburg is een countryclub in Johannesburg, Zuid-Afrika, die opgericht werd in 1906.

African Centre for Biodiversity (Q118313583)
item type: think tank

Street address: 13 The Braids Road, Emmarentia, 2195, Johannesburg, South Africa (from Wikidata)

website: https://acbio.org.za/

Centre in Water Research and Development (Q118323060)
item type: think tank

Street address: 1 Jan Smuts Avenue,Braamfontein 2000,Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

website: https://www.wits.ac.za/

DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (Q118323226)
item type: think tank

Street address: DSI-NRF CIMERADepartment of GeologyC1 Lab 305 (3rd Floor)University of JohannesburgAuckland Park Kingsway CampusCorner Kingsway Avenue and University RoadAuckland ParkAccess via Gate 2; University of Johannesburg Auckland Park Kingsway Campus PO Box 524, 2006 Auckland Park South Africa (from Wikidata)

website: https://cimera.co.za/

Newmarket Park (Q61355560)
item type: neighborhood
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Newmarket Park is 'n voorstad in Alberton, Gauteng. Volgens die 2011-sensus het Newmarket Park 'n bevolking van 2 776 gehad, waarvan 40,9% Blankes was. Afrikaans (28,2%) en Engels (23,1%) is die grootste huistale.

Braamfontein farm (Q61359231)
item type: farm
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Braamfontein is een van die Boereplase waarop die stad Johannesburg gebou is. Van die voorstede wat mettertyd daarop aangelê is, is Braamfontein self (voorheen bekend as Clifton), Auckland Park, Brixton, Cottesloe, Emmarentia, Forest Town, Greenside, Jan Hofmeyr, Melville, Newtown, Parktown, Parkview, Parkwood, Richmond, Rosebank, Rossmore, Saxonwold, Sunnyside, Vrededorp, Wanderers View, Westcliff en Westdene.

Johannesburg concentration camp (Q98815307)
item type: concentration camp / occurrence
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Oorbevolking van kampe en die gevolglike bemoeiliking van die werk van elke superintendent en sy personeel asook die ooreising van kampdokters het die kamporganisasie opvallend gestrem. In Transvaal was daar onder die militêre regime reeds twee kampe wat te omvangryk was, naamlik die Johannesburgse Reisiesbaankamp en die een op Potchefstroom. Toe die siviele beheer die kampe in Februarie 1901 oorneem, was daar in hierdie twee kampe onderskeidelik 5 144 en 4 313 siele. Die kampbewoners was in albei gevalle rond en bont gehuisves sodat daar feitlik geen sprake kon wees van gesonde administrasie en beheer nie, veral met betrekking tot epidemies wat uitgebreek het.

Consulate General of France, Johannesburg (Q16507534)
item type: consulate general
Summary from Français / French Wikipedia (frwiki)

Le consulat général de France à Johannesburg est une représentation consulaire de la République française en Afrique du Sud. Il est situé sur Jan Smuts Avenue, à Johannesburg, dans le Gauteng.

website: http://www.consulfrance-jhb.org

tournoi de tennis féminin de Johannesburg 1975 (Q18415540)
item type: SA Tennis Open / tennis tournament edition
Summary from Français / French Wikipedia (frwiki)

Le tournoi de tennis d'Afrique du Sud est un tournoi de tennis professionnel. L'édition féminine 1975 se dispute à Johannesburg le .

tournoi de tennis féminin de Johannesburg 1981 (Q18415543)
item type: SA Tennis Open / tennis tournament edition
Summary from Français / French Wikipedia (frwiki)

Le tournoi de tennis d'Afrique du Sud est un tournoi de tennis professionnel. L'édition féminine 1981 se dispute à Johannesburg du 23 au .

tournoi de tennis féminin de Johannesburg 1968 (Q18641618)
item type: SA Tennis Open / tennis tournament edition
Summary from Français / French Wikipedia (frwiki)

Le tournoi de tennis d'Afrique du Sud est un tournoi de tennis. L'édition féminine 1968 se dispute à Johannesburg du 1er au .

tournoi de tennis d'Afrique du Sud 1966 (Q22946184)
item type: SA Tennis Open / tennis tournament edition
Summary from Français / French Wikipedia (frwiki)

Le tournoi de tennis d'Afrique du Sud est un tournoi de tennis. L'édition féminine 1966 se dispute à Johannesburg du au .

tournoi de tennis d'Afrique du Sud 1967 (Q22946187)
item type: SA Tennis Open / tennis tournament edition
Summary from Français / French Wikipedia (frwiki)

Le tournoi d'Afrique du Sud est un tournoi de tennis. L'édition féminine 1967 se dispute à Johannesburg du 13 au .

George Goch (Q87108958)
item type: suburb
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

George Goch is 'n voorstad van Johannesburg, Suid-Afrika. Dit is in Johannesburg se F-streek geleë en is bekend vir sy manshostelle wat in die meerderheid deur Zoeloes bewoon word.

Alveda (Q87108977)
item type: suburb
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Alveda is 'n klein voorstad van Johannesburg, Suid-Afrika. Dit is in Johannesburg se F-streek, direk wes langs Kibler Park geleë.

Bassonia Rock (Q87109459)
item type: suburb
Summary from Afrikaans / Afrikaans Wikipedia (afwiki)

Bassonia Rock is 'n voorstad naby Alberton, Gauteng. Die inwoners is van verskillende rassegroepe.

Empire Theatre of Varieties (Q21208756)
item type: theatre building

Street address: Commissioner Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Colosseum Theatre (Q37434840)
item type: theatre building / movie theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: 134-140 Commissioner Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

WesBank Raceway (Q2141116)
item type: motorsport racing track
Summary from Nederlands / Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki)

WesBank Raceway is een racecircuit in Germiston in de provincie Gauteng, Zuid-Afrika. Het is gebouwd op een voormalige paardenrenbaan en werd geopend in 2003. Er is een oval, een dragstrip, een wegcircuit en een motorcrosscircuit. Het is genoemd naar de sponsor, de Zuid-Afrikaanse bank WesBank.

Yale-Columbia Station (Q4205816)
item type: astronomical observatory

website: http://www.saao.ac.za/assa/html/his-obs-yale.html

August House (Q117791631)
item type: creative residency

Street address: 76 End StreetDoornfonteinJohannesburg2028South Africa (from Wikidata)

website: https://augusthouse.co.za

20th Century Theatre (Q37434710)
item type: movie theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: Von Brandis Street and President Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Bijou Theatre (Q37434744)
item type: movie theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: 165 Jeppe Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Carlton Theatre (Q37434778)
item type: movie theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: Market Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Cinerama Theatre (Q37434812)
item type: movie theater

Street address: Claim Street and Noord Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Highpoint Cinema (Q37434873)
item type: movie theater

Street address: Kotze Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

His Majesty's Theatre (Q37434902)
item type: movie theater

Street address: Commissioner Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Metro Theatre (Q37434982)
item type: movie theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: Bree Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Plaza Theatre (Q37435044)
item type: movie theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: Rissik Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Royal Cinerama (Q37435072)
item type: movie theater

Street address: Louis Botha Avenue, Orange Grove, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Ster Elite Cinema (Q37435099)
item type: movie theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: Mooi Street, Central, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Ster Land Cinema (Q37435132)
item type: movie theater

Street address: Claim Street, Johannesburg (from Wikidata)

Victory Theatre (Q37435162)
item type: movie theater

Street address: 105 Louis Botha Avenue, Johannesburg 2192 (from Wikidata)

Albert Street Pass Office (Q122166367)
item type: building

Street address: 80 Albert Street, Marshalltown, Johannesburg, South Africa (from Wikidata)

Soweto (Q217426)
item type: city / South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Soweto () is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships. Formerly a separate municipality, it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and is one of the suburbs of Johannesburg.

Sophiatown (Q1517405)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Hector Pieterson Museum (Q1432044)
item type: history museum
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa. Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising, where more than 170 protesting school children were killed.

Lenasia (Q2751060)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lenasia, also known as Lenz, is a suburb south of Soweto in the Gauteng province, South Africa, originally created to house Indians. It is part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Lenasia is approximately 35 kilometres southwest of the Johannesburg Central Business District.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former Indian townships in South Africa
Witwatersrand Gold Rush (Q2604396)
item type: gold rush
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Witwatersrand Gold Rush was a gold rush that began in 1886 and led to the establishment of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a part of the Mineral Revolution.

Aeroton (Q4688491)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Aeroton is an industrial area of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9.

Cecil Payne Stadium (Q5056259)
item type: stadium
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Cecil Payne Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Roodepoort, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is used mostly for football matches and was utilized as a training field for teams participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup after being brought up to FIFA standards.

Florida (Q4711417)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Florida is a location in Gauteng province, South Africa. It is located about 16 kilometres west of Johannesburg. The area which is referred to as Florida was originally established as the farm Vogelstruisfontein. Today, it is a suburb of Roodepoort.

Diepmeadow (Q4849326)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Diepkloof is a large zone of Soweto township in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is also sometimes referred to as Diepmeadow, if considered as a single township with the nearby Meadowlands (although there is Orlando in between). Diepkloof was established in 1959 to accommodate people being removed from Alexandra.

Dobsonville (Q5286976)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Dobsonville is a township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, which are suburbs of Soweto on its southern border.

2010 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony (Q3010367)
item type: opening ceremony
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The 2010 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony took place on 11 June at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, two hours before the opening match of the tournament. The ceremony started at 2pm local time and lasted 40 minutes. The ceremony involved 1500 performers, including American superstar R.Kelly, Thandiswa Mazwai, Timothy Moloi, Hugh Masekela, Khaled, Femi Kuti, Osibisa, TKZee, Hip Hop Pantsula and the Soweto Gospel Choir. During the ceremony, the tournament was declared opened by President Jacob Zuma.

Albertskroon (Q4712277)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Albertskroon is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 4.

Albertville, Gauteng (Q4712299)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Albertville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 4.

Orlando (Q3885934)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Orlando is a township in the urban area of Soweto, South Africa. The township was founded in 1931 and named after Edwin Orlando Leake, mayor of Johannesburg from 1925 to 1926. It is divided in two main areas: Orlando West and Orlando East.

Kliptown (Q3643931)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Kliptown is a suburb of the formerly black township of Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, located about 17 km south-west of Johannesburg. Kliptown is the oldest residential district of Soweto, and was first laid out in 1891 on land which formed part of Klipspruit farm. The farm was named after the klipspruit (rocky stream) that runs nearby. From 1903 the area was home to informal settlements (squatter camps), and the area now contains a mixture of purpose-built housing and many shacks and other informal homes which form the Chris Hani and Dlamini settlements.

Doornkop (Q4849819)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Doornkop (literally "thorn hill") is a ridge and locality on the western outskirts of Soweto in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. The area is currently being subsumed by the westward expansion of Soweto and the eastward growth of Krugersdorp's Kagiso township. Suburbs include Tshepisong, Leratong Village, Bambayi and Thulani. Doornkop is also known as Thulani, Snakepark and Silvertown.

Bosmont (Q4947313)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bosmont is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Bosmont is located in Region 4. Bosmont is located in the West Rand of Johannesburg and nearly all of its residents are Coloured.

Congress of the People (Q5160909)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Congress of the People was a gathering organised by the National Action Council, a multi-racial organisation which later became known as the Congress Alliance, and held in Kliptown on 26 June 1955 to lay out the vision of the South African people. The Freedom Charter was drawn up at the gathering, which was statement of core principles of the Alliance and a symbol of internal resistance against apartheid.

Westbury, Gauteng (Q48815407)
item type: village
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Westbury is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in the province of Gauteng. It is situated west of the Johannesburg CBD.

Eldorado Park, Gauteng (Q55610667)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Eldorado Park is a suburb of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region G of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It lies on the southern boundary of Soweto and prior to 1994, was a Coloured township during Apartheid.

Kanana Park (Q56245294)
item type: suburb
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Kanana Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region G of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Tolstoy Farm (Q96410042)
item type: ashram / building complex
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Tolstoy Farm was an ashram initiated and organised by Mohandas Gandhi during his South African movement. At its creation in 1910 the ashram served as the headquarters of the campaign of satyagraha against discrimination against Indians in Transvaal, where it was located. The ashram, Gandhi's second in South Africa (the first was Phoenix Farm, Natal, in 1904) was named after Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy, whose 1894 book, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, greatly influenced Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence.

Shooting of Nathaniel Julies (Q99149382)
item type: shooting
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Nathaniel “Lockie” Julies, a 16 year-old boy with down syndrome, was fatally shot allegedly by South African Police Service (SAPS) officers Sergeant Simon ‘Scorpion’ Ndyalvane and Constable Caylene Whiteboy on the 26 August 2020. A third suspect, Detective Voster Netshiongolo, appeared before the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. Julies was shot meters away from his home in the Eldorado Park area of Johannesburg, Gauteng.

Coronationville, Gauteng (Q47809467)
item type: human-geographic territorial entity
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Coronationville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Coronationville is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Coronationville is located in the West Rand of Johannesburg and during Apartheid, its residents were mainly Coloured.

Meredale (Q6818893)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Meredale is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, just south of Southgate.

Thutolore Secondary School (Q14979213)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Thutolore Secondary School is a government secondary school on Madubane Street in Soweto, Johannesburg.

Greymont (Q5608460)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Greymont is a small suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Rand Show (Q7291438)
item type: recurring event
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Rand Show, previously known as the Rand Easter Show, is an annual show held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the largest consumer exhibition in Southern Africa. It has been an important event in the city for many years, attracting in excess of 400,000 visitors in 2007. It was also called the Grand Rand Show, when it was held a few weeks outside of Easter in the late 1980s.

Zola (Q8073531)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Zola is a section of the Soweto township lying south of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa. A number of well-known public figures, mostly musicians call Zola their home and were born and bred there.

Morris Isaacson High School (Q14979211)
item type: high school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Morris Isaacson High School is a government secondary school in Soweto. Founded in 1956, the school took an important role at the start of the Soweto Uprising in 1976.

Dobsonville Shopping Centre (Q5286977)
item type: shopping center
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Dobsonville Mall is a shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Located in Dobsonville, it was the first shopping centre to be built in Soweto and was seen as an early symbol of economic development in the area.

Lawley, Gauteng (Q6503638)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lawley is a township in the Gauteng province of South Africa and is some 8 km south of Lenasia. Named after Sir Arthur Lawley, Lieutenant-Governor of Transvaal from 1902 to 1906, when he became Governor of Madras.

Newlands, Gauteng (Q7018324)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Newlands is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in the province of Gauteng.

Phiri, Soweto (Q7186446)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Phiri is a township in the urban area of Soweto in South Africa. The township was founded in 1956, as part of the demographic reorganization started by the state that year. Phiri, along with several other areas, was created to house Sotho and Tswana-speakers. Phiri is the Sotho word for hyena.

James Mpanza House (Q15229266)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The James Mpanza House is a simple house in Orlando near Johannesburg. James Mpanza was a champion for the rights of black South Africans to have homes. His house was where he and his family lived and it was also a place of public meetings and informal courts.

Meadowlands (Q15252586)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Meadowlands is a suburb of Soweto, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It was founded in the early 1950s during the apartheid era for black residents from Sophiatown.

Orlando Power Station (Q15264334)
item type: coal-fired power station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Orlando Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station in Soweto, South Africa. The power station was commissioned at the end of the Second World War and served Johannesburg for over 50 years.

Florida Hills (Q5461441)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Florida Hills is a suburb of Johannesburg in Gauteng Province, South Africa. It lies to the northwest of downtown Johannesburg and north of Soweto. It is a suburb of Roodepoort.

Protea Glen (Q7251201)
item type: South African township
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Protea Glen is a township of the City of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa, located north of Lenasia and west of Soweto. The suburb was developed in the 1990s for middle-class residents.

Bopasenatla Secondary School (Q16966792)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Bopasenatla Secondary School is a government secondary school in Diepkloof, Soweto. It was previously known as Junior Secondary School.

website: http://bopasenatlasecondary.co.za/index.htm

Waterval Estate, Randburg (Q28007942)
item type: human-geographic territorial entity
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Waterval Estate is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.It is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, is close to Randburg's centre.

Florida Glen (Q5461427)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Florida Glen is a small, primarily residential suburb on the eastern edge of the city of Roodepoort. The N1 Freeway runs through Florida Glen, and intersects at the Gordon Road offramp. The main road through Florida Glen was Lange Ave, until the building of the N1 Freeway in the 1980s, which diverted traffic onto the busy Gordon Road. Hendrik Potgieter Road also passes through Florida Glen. Florida Glen is flanked by Quellerina to the north and Delarey to the south, Bergbron and Northcliff to the east, and Florida Hills, and Newlands to the west. For many years its residents were Afrikaans- and English-speaking white middle-class families. In the 1990s and following it became an attractive suburb for black, coloured and indian middle-class families from nearby Coronation, Newlands, Soweto and Lenasia, as it is easily accessible from the city and the N1 Freeway. Florida Glen has no schools of its own, and there are few churches and community centres - notably the NG Kerk Florida Glen which is visible from the Western Bypass, with its large steel spire.

Zuurbekom (Q8075447)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Zuurbekom is a town in the Gauteng province, South Africa. It is mainly earmarked for agricultural purposes.

Moletsane High School (Q15254760)
item type: high school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Moletsane High School is a government secondary school in Soweto, South Africa. Founded in 1972 it became a secondary school in 1976. Students from the school were involved in the Soweto Uprising in 1976. The school's public/private partnership and the school's improvements in its results were praised by the South African Minister for Education.

Tutu House (Q16902116)
item type: architectural structure
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Tutu House is a house on Vilakazi Street in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, that was the home to Desmond and Leah Tutu. The house is registered as part of Johannesburg's historical heritage.

Noordgesig (Q20981813)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Noordgesig (meaning "north view/facing") is a township in Soweto, situated at the edge of area's northernmost boundary, but within its territory. It is the first township seen on entering Soweto from the frequently used New Canada Road. Noordgesig is a Coloured township. It is colloquially called "Bulte"(meaning Hills) by its residence and neighbors, as depicted by the Mine Dumps surrounding the Township. The name "Bulte" was coined as a form of endearment by the residence for the longest time.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former Coloured townships in South Africa
Imperial Military Hospital, Baragwanath (Q27628127)
item type: military hospital
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Imperial Military Hospital, Baragwanath, was a British military hospital built near Johannesburg, South Africa, during the Second World War. After the war it was purchased by the South African government and became one of the biggest hospitals in the world. Today it is called Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.

Southgate, Gauteng (Q7570789)
item type: town
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Southgate is a suburb south of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, just west of Mondeor. It is a small area of residency and is more known for its shopping mall (Southgate Shopping Centre).

Randfontein Golf & Country Club (Q15614688)
item type: golf course / country club
Summary from Nederlands / Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki)

De Randfontein Golf & Country Club is een countryclub in Randfontein, Zuid-Afrika. De club is opgericht in 1926 en heeft een 18-holes golfbaan met een par van 72.