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Architecture of Johannesburg. Panorama of the central business district of Johannesburg, South Africa. Johannesburg is the capital of the Gauteng province and the financial hub of South Africa. Founded in 1886, the city is located in the Witwatersrand region, which has vast gold deposits. The town experienced rapid growth as the gold deposits ...
Johannesburg (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ h æ n ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / joh-HAN-iss-burg, US also /-ˈ h ɑː n-/- HAHN-, Afrikaans: [jʊəˈɦanəsbœrχ]; Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli [ɛˈɡɔːli]) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") [12] [13] is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, [7] and is classified as a megacity; [14] it is one of the 100 largest ...
The Johannesburg City Library is situated in the central business district of the City of Johannesburg. [2] The Library is located in an Italianate building [3] designed by John Perry which first opened in 1935. It has over 1.5-million books and items in its collection and more than 250 000 members.
Brenthurst Library. / -26.171307278804512; 28.043967605489623. The Brenthurst Library is a private repository of Africana in Parktown, Johannesburg built by Harry Oppenheimer in 1984 as he started to disengage from the family's mining interests. [ 1] It houses a collection of some 20,000 volumes, [ 2] including rare manuscripts and documents.
Centred on the CBD, the region includes the suburbs of Yeoville, Bellevue, Troyeville, Jeppestown, and Berea to the east. To the west it spreads to Pageview and Fordsburg. There are small industrial areas to the south, such as City West-Denver and Benrose.
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The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseGoli) is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. It is divided into several branches and departments in order to expedite services for the city.
The term Greater Johannesburg may refer to: The area governed by the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (GJMC) from 1995 to 2000. [1][2][3][4] The current City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, which superseded the GJMC in 2000 with the incorporation of much of Midrand and some of Modderfontein. [5][6][7] The place itemised in ...