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M9 (Johannesburg)
M9 is a major metropolitan route in Johannesburg, South Africa. Passing through the heart of the Witwatersrand, it connects the southern suburbs of Johannesburg via the centre of Johannesburg, with the northern suburbs and business centres of Rosebank and Sandton before ending in the outer northern suburbs. Route The southern terminus begins as T-junction with Turf Club Street in Turffontein. From this junction, it heads north as Turffontein Road passing the Turffontein Racecourse on its right. After passing Wembley Stadium, the road becomes Eloff Street, passing over a railway track into Village Deep. The M9 interchanges with the M2 freeway passing under it into the Johannesburg CBD. In Marshalltown, it turns left into Anderson Street then right into Rissik Street. Rissik Street crosses major roadways, the R29 Marshall Street, R24 Commissioner Street and Albertina Sisulu Road where it passes the old Johannesburg City Hall. Continuing north through the CBD, it crosses ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauteng Department Of Roads And Transport
The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport is a department of the Government of Gauteng. It is responsible for the development of the transport system in the Gauteng province of South Africa, and for constructing and maintaining buildings and other structures for the other departments of the provincial government. One of their key functions is to develop and maintain all Regional routes and Provincial routes (& some National routes) within the Gauteng province as well as all metropolitan roads in Johannesburg and Metropolitan routes in Pretoria. They are also responsible for passing any transport authority bill or road traffic amendment bill in the province The Department's strategic goals are a to maintain an integrated public transport system that provides customer-centric transport services and strategic economic transport infrastructure that stimulates socio-economic growth; in a modern, accountable and development-oriented department See also * Government of Gauteng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joburg Theatre
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's a venue to stage both Broadway musicals and home grown productions. It is one of the few theatres open in Johannesburg for independent productions. History The idea for a theatre has its origins in 1959 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Union of South Africa called the Union Festival, when an initial fund of R100,000 was set aside by the Johannesburg City Council for an event and when the city was excluded from arranging a cultural event by the South African government, the idea of using the money for a civic theatre was introduced. Initially the idea was for a 750-seat theatre but this was soon scrapped in favour of a 1120-seat facility. Johannesburg City Council Mayor, Alec Gorshel, would break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyde Park, Gauteng
Hyde Park is a very wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It borders Illovo, Sandhurst, and Craighall Park. Hyde Park is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. History The suburb is named after London's esteemed Hyde Park area, and enjoys the same associations of prestige as its London counterpart. Hyde Park was declared a residential area in 1955, and has since become home to the top echelons of South African society. Its tree-lined streets and multi-acre estates with large and luxurious historic homes live side-by-side with their more modern security estate neighbours. Economy Virgin Atlantic has its South Africa office in Hyde Park. " |
Dunkeld, Gauteng
Dunkeld is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 3. It is bordered by the suburbs of Hyde Park and Illovo to the north, Melrose to the east, Rosebank in the south and to the west, Dunkeld West. Origin of the name The Dunkeld suburbs name has it origin in a small town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the .... The township was laid out in 1904. The main street through the suburb, Bompass Street, is named after accountant and real estate pioneer Frank W.R. Bompass. References External links Scottish Place Names in Johannesburg, South Africalists suburbs with Scottish placenames. Johannesburg Region B {{Johannesburg-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melrose, Gauteng
Melrose includes several suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Melrose is a developing up-market suburb. History The suburb has it origins when Henry Brown Marshall purchased land in the north of Johannesburg in 1893. Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms that make up Johannesburg, called ''Syferfontein''. It was called the Melrose Estate of 713 acres and at the time was 9.7km north of the central business district. He built his home there and planted trees on the land. The suburb was laid out in 1902. Melrose Arch The Melrose Arch mixed-use development is located in Melrose. The development, which cost ZAR 800 million to build, began construction in 2007, with Phase One completed in November 2009. It contains 170,000 m2 of office and retail space, in addition to residential space and 2 hotels. The area is characterised b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riviera, Gauteng
Riviera is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. History The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand The Witwatersrand () (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a , 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 ... farm called ''Braamfontein''. It would be proclaimed as a suburb on 31 July 1903 as is named after the French or Italian Riviera. References Johannesburg Region E {{Johannesburg-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R25 (South Africa)
The R25 is a provincial route in South Africa that connects Johannesburg with Groblersdal via Kempton Park, Bapsfontein and Bronkhorstspruit. Route The R25 begins in the suburb of Saxonwold, just north of the Johannesburg Zoo, at an intersection with Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg's M27 Road. It heads eastwards, meeting Johannesburg's M9 Road (Oxford Road) and meeting Johannesburg's M1 freeway (De Villiers Graaff Motorway; southbound access only), up to the junction with Louis Botha Avenue, Johannesburg's M11 Road, where it joins the road northwards up to the next junction, where it continues by a right turn. It makes its way north-east through the suburb of Sandringham, crossing the Jukskei River, bypassing Edenvale Hospital, before crossing the N3 Highway ( Johannesburg Eastern Bypass; Johannesburg Ring Road) as a dual carriageway and passing by Greenstone Hill, where Greenstone Shopping Mall is located. It continues north-east as Modderfontein Road, with Greenstone Shoppi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killarney, Gauteng
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. Neighbouring suburbs include Houghton Estate, Riviera, and Parktown. It is home to the first shopping mall in Johannesburg. It was formerly known as the Hollywood of Johannesburg, due it being the location of one of the first film studios in South Africa. Killarney currently is home to consulates, tall residential building (including some of Johannesburg's best examples of Art Deco architecture) and a golf course. There is a large Jewish and Muslim community in Killarney. Killarney is very cosmopolitan and also has a large gay community. History In the early 1930s, the land in Killarney, an outlying northern suburb, belonged to I.W. Schlesinger Isidore Williem Schlesinger (Bowery, New York City, 15 September 1871 – Johannesburg, 1 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M1 (Johannesburg)
The M1 De Villiers Graaff motorway is a metropolitan route and major freeway in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. The highway connects the southern areas (including Booysens, Eldorado Park and Soweto) with the city centre and extends further north through Sandton into the Ben Schoeman Highway towards Pretoria. Construction began in 1962 and resulted in the demolition of many properties and houses including numerous historical Parktown Mansions. Route The M1 officially starts at the M68 (Columbine Avenue) Interchange in Southgate, Johannesburg South, just east of the Southgate Shopping Centre. South of this interchange, it is designated as the R82 towards Walkerville. The M1 begins by heading northwards from the M68 off-ramp to reach the Uncle Charlie's Interchange with the N12 Highway ( Southern Bypass) in Ridgeway (west southbound interchange only). It continues north-east towards the city centre as a freeway, passing Ormonde and Booysens, and meets the M2 hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital
Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, named after Nelson Mandela is a children's hospital A children's hospital is a hospital that offers its services exclusively to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In certain special cases, they may also treat adults. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th ... constructed since 2014 and opened in 2017. References Hospitals in Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand Teaching hospitals in South Africa Children's hospitals in South Africa {{SouthAfrica-hospital-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of The Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (), is a multi-campus South African Public university, public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University or Wits ( or ). The university has its roots in the mining industry, as do Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand in general. Founded in 1896 as the South African School of Mines in Kimberley, South Africa, Kimberley, it is the third oldest South African university in continuous operation. The university has an enrolment of 40,259 students as of 2018, of which approximately 20 percent live on campus in the university's 17 residences. 63 percent of the university's total enrolment is for Undergraduate education, undergraduate study, with 35 percent being Postgraduate education, postgraduate and the remaining 2 percent being Occasional Students. The 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) places Wits University, with its overall score, as the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transvaal Memorial Hospital For Children
The Transvaal Memorial Hospital for Children, based in Johannesburg, was the first dedicated children's hospital in South Africa when it opened in 1923. The hospital would remain open until 1978 when its functions were moved to the then newly opened Johannesburg General Hospital. The building is a heritage listed monument and parts of the building are currently used by community groups dedicated to the service of children. History Origin The concept for a dedicated hospital for children in the Transvaal began in October 1919 when members of the Johannesburg Branch of the National Council of Women (NCW) discussed the need at a gathering., Two months later on 8 December 1919, the NCW met in Johannesburg and a resolution was passed to build a Children's Hospital which commemorates the deaths of Transvaal men during the First World War. A committee consisting of members of the Transvaal community was formed under Viscountess Buxton to help realise the idea of a 100-bed hospital with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
