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Pro

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 60% of country's population and economy probably found here 


Con

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 unsafe at night, higher prices 


In a nutshell

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 The money of South Africa 

 

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Downtown

Downtown, Johannesburg

 42 Reviews  Diagonal Street - not to be confused with Diagon Alley (that's Harry Potter) - was for years the home of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the hub of commercial activity in sub Saharan... 

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Gold Reef City

Gold Reef City, Johannesburg

 20 Reviews  Gold Reef City is a Johannesburg institution and as my kids have been nagging me to go for months, I finally succumbed early in the New Year. I have to declare my bias: I hate theme parks, I dislike... 

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Lion Park

Lion Park, Johannesburg

 19 Reviews  The Lion Park is located in Lanseria, about 45 minutes drive north west of Johannesburg. It gives visitors the chance to drive through a rather small reserve in which you can see big carnivores (white... 

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Sun City

Sun City, Johannesburg

 14 Reviews  Hey guys Sun city the name which is almost known to most of the passionate tourists coming to South Africa the place where there is a heaven between the mountains far away from here when you approach... 

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MonteCasino

MonteCasino, Johannesburg

 11 Reviews  Bright and cheerful entertainment is ongoing at Montecasino Montecasino has buskers, street performers, wandering around and entertaining people. Busking dates back through the ages to earliest... 

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Apartheid Museum

Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg

 17 Reviews  Jo'burg is sadly not a city blessed with as many great museums as other large cities worldwide, but the Apartheid Museum is truly world class and a moving testament to South Africa's troubled history.... 

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Randburg Waterfront

Randburg Waterfront, Johannesburg

 5 Reviews  Well the Randburg Waterfront has been revamped and is now called the Bright Water Commons. There is alot less water but is a 100 times nicer than before. Its a very nice to do a little shopping ,... 

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Carlton Center

Carlton Center, Johannesburg

 9 Reviews  One of the saddest sights that you'll see from the Top of Africa viewpoint on the top floor of the Carlton Centre is the once vibrant inner city highrise suburb of Hillbrow: once THE suburb of choice... 

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Soweto

Soweto, Johannesburg

 16 Reviews  The below is a bad experience we had with a tour of Soweto+. We dealt with Lorrinda Timmins from Dumela events in JoBurg. The company was recommend to us by a 5* safari lodge, so we beleived we would... 

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Constitution Hill

Constitution Hill, Johannesburg

 13 Reviews  Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about South Africa's Constitutional Court - which is a pretty extraordinary place on all counts - is the degree of access that the public have to the building: in... 

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The Westcliff Hotel

 5 Reviews and 300 Opinions  Being a local, I have never stayed here (and probably couldn't afford to!) - having visited business... 

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Michelangelo Hotel

 7 Reviews and 218 Opinions  The best and most expensive hotel of the area. Directly in the Sandton shopping Mall. The smallest... 

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Pretoria  

Voortrekker Monument

Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria

 23 Reviews  Several other reviewers have provided excellent information on the Voortrekker monument, so I won't repeat what they have said. Suffice to say that I believe that this is an underrated tourist... 

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Sheraton Pretoria Hotel

 4 Reviews and 123 Opinions  Stayed twice, two weeks apart for 2 nights and one night respectively. Rooms are very nice, roomy... 

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The Union Building

The Union Building, Pretoria

 14 Reviews  The Union Buildings, offices of the State President and Minister of Foreign Affairs After the Boer wars, South Africa in 1910 united under British hegemony to become the Union of South Africa. (... 

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