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THERE is a house in Auckland Park, where time seems to have stood still. Here you can learn about life as a Victorian lady or gentleman.
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THE beautiful home built by Percival Tracey high on a hill above eastern Joburg is being sensitively and lovingly restored by its latest owner.
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FIRE destroyed the Rissik Street Post Office just days before a scheduled meeting to look into tenders for its redevelopment.
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ONE of several houses in which Mahatma Gandhi lived in Johannesburg, in Orchards, is on the market. Interest has come from around the world.
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HERITAGE stakeholders have called the neglect of the historic Barbican a "disgrace". But the owners have come up with another restoration plan.
* Jozi could learn from mother city
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SOPHIATOWN has re-emerged as a spirited arts and cultural hub of Johannesburg with the Trevor Huddleston Memorial Centre one of the driving forces behind this revival.
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JOBURG is losing another icon - the Top Star mine dump is being reclaimed, although the Provincial Heritage Resources Agency of Gauteng, backed by the City, is fighting for its preservation.
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THE stamp mills used by the Struben brothers in their search for gold at their Confidence Reef have been returned to the mine workings in the Kloofendal Nature Reserve.
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THE famous Newtown jazz club is being restored, although it will most likely become a "coffee shop and jazz museum" extension of the Market Theatre complex.
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SEVERAL Joburg museums and galleries will be celebrating International Museum Day with seminars, tours and exhibitions.
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A MOSAIC portrait of David Webster will be unveiled when a park in Troyeville is renamed in memory of the late anti-apartheid activist.
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THE tiny home Nelson Mandela shared with his first wife and then with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and his children, has been restored and opened to the public as part of a greater Vilakazi Street project.
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SLATE, concrete and steel sculptures
representing each of the 10 clauses in the Freedom Charter stand atop the
columns at the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication.
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THE ramparts of the Old Fort, high on Constitution Hill, have been restored and paved. People can now walk them, keeping an eye on the old gold rush town below.
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EMINENT Joburg scientists raise a glass to toast Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. Through his On the Origin of Species, Darwin changed the way people thought about themselves and the world.
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ART Bank Joburg has called for the submission of proposals for a large work of art to be placed in Braamfontein in tribute to Walter and Albertina Sisulu.
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INDIA'S Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award has been given to Joburg's own Prema Naidoo, for his role in the anti-apartheid struggle.
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NTHATO MOTLANA gave his life to helping others. He played an active role in the struggle against apartheid, and had several firsts for black business under his belt.
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MORE than four decades after Nelson Mandela stood in the dock at the Rivonia Trial, the trial records have been donated to the National Archives, helping to preserve the history of the nation.
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THOUSANDS of ancient manuscripts in Timbuktu speak of Africa's intellectual past. The race is now on to conserve these vital documents, some of which are on exhibition in Joburg.
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