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Downtown Architecture and Tours: Carlton Panarama
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  • cokes
  • Updated By cokes on February 12, 2005
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  • Picture from the Top of the Carlton Centre - Johannesburg
    Picture from the Top of the
    Carlton Centre
    by cokes
    You can get a view of the city of JNB. Its 50 stories high , not tall enough for some but it is the tallest building in Africa.

    You can see the newly built Nelson Mandela Bridge , The Brixton Tower "TV and Radio" , The Hillbrow Tower and you can see all the Gold Mines which surrounds the City.

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  • Phone: +27 11 331-2629
  • Website: 130 Main Street
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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: Interesting Info on the Nelson Mandela Bridge
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  • By cokes on May 4, 2005
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  • On the Bridge - Johannesburg
    On the Bridge
    by cokes
    Two years and R38-million in the making, the spectacular Nelson Mandela Bridge has emerged as a new landmark for Gauteng province, and holds out the promise of a rejuvenated Johannesburg inner city.

    The 284 metre long bridge crosses over 42 operational railway lines in linking Braamfontein and the north of Johannesburg to Newtown in the heart of the city’s central business district.

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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: The Neslon Mandela Bridge
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  • By cokes on May 4, 2005
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  • The Bridge Ahead from Braamfontein - Johannesburg
    The Bridge Ahead from
    Braamfontein
    by cokes
    Paris has its Eiffel Tower, New York its Statue of Liberty, Sydney its Harbour Bridge. On 20 July, Johannesburg opened the largest cable-stayed bridge in southern Africa. Who else to name it after but Nelson Mandela, the man who led South Africa across the apartheid divide?

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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: Downtown Architecture
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  • queensgirl
  • Updated By queensgirl on October 19, 2004
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  • I took a tour down here very informative it is not as bad as people say it was, but If you are tourist just do not come down here at night or by yourself (use common sense and should be okay) Even though all businesses, shopping and jobs moved out of downtown Johannesburg. The buildings and skyline are great to look at.

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  • Address: Downtown
  • Directions: Just follow the sign on the expressway. Very easy to find.
  • Website: www.joburg.co.za
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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: Top of Africa
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  • Updated By ATLC on March 25, 2003
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  • JOHANNESBURG TOP OF AFRICA - Johannesburg
    JOHANNESBURG TOP OF
    AFRICA
    by ATLC
    The highest point in Africa.

    One of the big skyscrapers is open to public for a magnificent view over the city. It's called Carlon Center. It's a shopping center and you follow signs to the panorama. Buy a ticket (don't know how much, but it isn't very much) and go up the elevator to the 50th floor.

    I found the ticket, 2 1/2 yrs after having been there. It's 7,50 ZAR and nowadays that's about € 0,75 !

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  • Address: Carlton Center, Commissioner street, Jo'burg
  • Phone: 331 2629
  • Directions: Parking underneath Carlton Center
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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: Check out modern architecture...
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  • By cosmopolit on August 26, 2002
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  • Downtown Architecture and Tours - Johannesburg
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    Check out modern architecture buildings, malls and design of public space.

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  • Address: Down town.
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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: Join a local tour where you'd...
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  • Krystynn
  • By Krystynn on August 24, 2002
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  • Downtown Architecture and Tours - Johannesburg
    by Krystynn
    Join a local tour where you'd be taken for a delightful tour of the city of Jo'burg. But DON'T travel alone! This is Jo'burg - a VERY dangerous city if you're walking along the streets ON YOUR OWN. Believe me, they can sniff you out and guess that you're just an innocent tourist. My dear sister was actually robbed of US$700 in cash right here in Sandton City, I think. Let me go check with her again. So, please be careful O.K.?

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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: Mary Fitzgerald Square
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  • By cybernation on October 4, 2003
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  • MuseuMAfricA in Newtown is located in Mary Fitzger - Johannesburg
    MuseuMAfricA in Newtown is
    located in Mary Fitzger
    by cybernation
    Mary "Pickhandle" Fitzgerald made her name in Johannesburg for her trade union activities and a number of firsts - first woman trade unionist, first woman printer and first woman city councillor.

    She was born in Ireland in 1885 and after immigrating with her father to Cape Town in 1900, she got a job at The Castle as a typist.

    She moved to Johannesburg in 1902 with her husband, John Fitzgerald, with whom she was to have five children. She soon found a job as a shorthand-typist with the Mine Workers' Union, where she became involved in collecting money for burials of phthisis victims.

    Many miners were dying from phthisis - a disease in which the fine underground sand coated the lungs and made them as hard as a rock and thereby considerably shortened a miner's life - with no compensation for their dependants. The workers were disorganised and working under appalling conditions, with mine accidents accumulating.

    Before long she was making rousing speeches to union members and became the country's first woman trade union organiser. She became more and more vocal and was involved in the miners' strikes of 1913 and 1914.

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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: Downtown Johannesburg
    Airpunk
  • By Airpunk on August 19, 2009
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  • Downtown Johannesburg - Johannesburg
    Downtown Johannesburg
    by Airpunk, 3 more photos
    Everybody knowns that Johannesburg is not the safest place on earth, but this counts especially for downtown Johannesburg. As a normal tourist, you’ll probably like to see the center of the town expecting that a big part of the city life is going on there. Not in Johannesburg – the city center is ruled by poverty and criminality with authorities only slowly ganing back control in some areas. Immigrants from neighbouring african countries come to this place, establishing crime, drugs and prostituation. Nothing for a tourist to see here… If you are looking for historical buildings, you won’t find any. The only places of interest here may be the trains and bus terminals as well as the new Nelson Mandela bridge. The rest is a place you will surely not like.
    If you want to get an impression, take an organized tour or go there with a local. You’ll see what I am talking about, but you’ll see also one thing which is typical for post-Apartheid South Africa: Slow progress. In the center, you’ll find some spots where life is not looking that bad. The city of Johannesburg is doing a lot to make the city center a better place, not only by reducing crime, but also by refurbishing the buildings. It gives hope that in a couple of years, the center will be again a place safe for locals and tourists. I would like to recommend a tour with Annekie or Henry which offer a half-day tour through downtown Johannesburg and Soweto and will serve you as your private guide.

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    Downtown Architecture and Tours: Johannesburg Street Scene.
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  • By euzkadi on November 8, 2006
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  • Downtown Architecture and Tours - Johannesburg
    by euzkadi, 3 more photos
    I dind´t walk through the downtown (i was highly recommended to don´t do it), but i saw some of the active life of the city from the bus.

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