Tag: South Africa

• Anti-Apartheid veteran Ahmed Kathrada visits the University of Johannesburg

  Kathrada spent 18 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island and another eight at Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison in Cape Town for his anti-apartheid activism. He was a very close friend of former President Nelson Mandela and upon his release, was elected to parliament.

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  28 March 2014

  History

  apartheid, johannesburg, nelson mandela, northcliff melville times, South Africa, university of johannesburg

• Art Deco in Johannesburg

  Rogers Cooke designed many theatres and cinemas in Gauteng and the creative crowd followed him to Auckland Park. Everyone who was anyone in the arts and entertainment industry seemed to have a connection with the spot.

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  3 March 2014

  Art, Environment, History

  art deco, cityscape, johannesburg, northcliff melville times, South Africa

• Environmental implication of Joburg’s mining history

  The epicentre of the tremor was said to be beneath UJ’s Auckland Park campus by the Council for Geoscience but Dr van Niekerk suspects that a more accurate analysis would find the tremor started at a nearby mine shaft. “It is very difficult to come up with an epicentre because it takes a lot of…

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  18 November 2013

  Environment, History

  cityscape, geography, johannesburg, mining, natural disaster, northcliff melville times, South Africa, university of johannesburg