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51 unusual facts about Gauteng


Aerolift

Aerolift was a South African airline based in Bryanston, Gauteng, Johannesburg, operating chartered passenger and cargo flights within Africa using Soviet-built aircraft.

Airlink

Airlink has its head office in the 11th office block of the Greenstone Office Park in the Modderfontein suburb of Johannesburg.

Ancylobothrys capensis

The species is common and occurs in rocky areas, particularly on quartzites throughout KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo Province, North West Province and Botswana.

Apartheid

The residents were taken to a large tract of land, 13 miles (19 km) from the city centre, known as Meadowlands, which the government had purchased in 1953.

Arthur Riley

Born in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Riley played for Boksburg F.C. He won the first of two caps for South Africa in a 2–1 win against Ireland in Belfast on 24 September 1924.

Ashley Callie

On 8 February 2008, Callie was on her way home from the Pirelli Calendar launch in Hyde Park, when her Smart Car collided with a red Renault on the corner of 4th Avenue and Tana road (in Linden), at around 22:30 SAST.

Aspen Hills, Gauteng

There are urbanizations next to Aspen Hills, those close by are Glenvista, Mulbarton, Bassonia, Meyersdal and Alberton.

Barend du Plessis

He also ran as the NP candidate in Florida in the same year and snatched the seat from the United Party.

Bennett Mnguni

Thabo Bennett Mnguni (born 18 March 1974 in Pretoria, Gauteng) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder for Okktha United FC.

Bernard Parker

Bernard Parker (born 16 March 1986 in Boksburg, Gauteng) is a South African professional association football midfielder/striker playing for Kaizer Chiefs.

He was quite good in a variety of sports and excelled in short and long distance running as well as achieving Eastern Gauteng colours in swimming.

Boston City Campus and Business College

In 1997 Boston City Campus opened a new division called Boston Business College and, after opening 11 colleges in Gauteng, started franchising the concept nationwide.

Bruce Wilkinson

Believing that Africa should be the next focal point for evangelical efforts, Wilkinson moved to Bryanston, Johannesburg, in 2002, and started an organization called Dream for Africa, which included the launch of the Never Ending Gardens.

Clement Mazibuko

Clement Sibusiso Mazibuko (born September 16, 1977 in Benoni, Gauteng) is a South African football midfielder who is currently playing for Batau F.C..

Cornwall Hill College

Cornwall Hill College is a private school in Irene, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

Daine Klate

At age 15, he moved to Gauteng to play for the Transnet School of Excellence, an institution that has produced a host of Bafana Bafana stars including Steven Pienaar and Dillon Sheppard.

Dark City Sisters

The group was named after Alexandra Township, known at the time as 'Dark City' due to its lack of street lighting.

David Koloane

The artist David Nthubu Koloane was born on 5 June 1938 in the township of Alexandra, a suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa.

Douglasdale

Douglasdale, Gauteng, a residential suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa

Eastgate shopping centre, Johannesburg

The Eastgate Shopping Centre is an shopping center based in Bedfordview, in the near of the Bedford Gardens in the state Gauteng.

Fordsburg Square

The workers did not just withdraw their labour but the a portion of the 20,000 white woprkers and the 180,000 black miners took over areas of Johannesburg and they were in control of Benoni, Brakpan suburbs of Fordsburg and Jeppe.

Godfrey Sapula

Godfrey Zolile Sapula (born 17 November 1973 in Soweto, Gauteng) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder for Premier Soccer League club Platinum Stars and South Africa.

Greenstone Hill

It has only recently been developed although much of the surrounding areas such as Edenvale and Modderfontein have been developed and established for quite some time.

Hans Coverdale Road

Hans Coverdale Road is the longest most popular street(s) found in Eersterust, Gauteng, South Africa.

It is the most popular and most driven route in the township of Eersterust, Gauteng.

Ice hockey in Africa

In South Africa, the sport is governed by the South African Ice Hockey Association, which organized the first African Nations Cup at the ice rink in the Festival Shopping Centre in Kempton Park, which has been postponed indefinitely.

Impi Linux

In February 2005, the fledgling company set up shop in Rosebank, Johannesburg, at which point Ross Addis joined Impi Linux full-time (although on the Cubit Accounting payroll).

Jacob Matlala

Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala (1 August 1962 – 7 December 2013) was a South African boxer and junior flyweight champion from Meadowlands, Johannesburg.

Jacob Zuma rape trial

In November 2005, an investigation began into charges that he had raped a 31-year-old family friend at his home in Forest Town, Johannesburg.

Jan Smuts Avenue

It begins in Randburg, and passes through important business areas like Rosebank.

Jeff Cooper

In 1995, Cooper, commenting on the naming of the newly formed Gauteng province in South Africa, said someone suggested they should be referred to as ""Orang-gautengs".

Johannesburg Muslim School

The school combines secular and Islamic education in its curriculum and has a separate preschool located in Mayfair that caters for Nursery, Intermediate and Grade R pupils.

Kandurata cricket team

The stadium was built by the State Engineering Corporation of Sri Lanka and is designed along the lines of SuperSport Park in Centurion, South Africa.

Labour brokering

COSATU called for a national one day general strike against labour brokering and the proposed Gauteng e-toll system for 7 March 2012.

Laerskool en Hoërskool Raslouw

From 2014 the schools are located on its own premises in Raslouw,Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa.

Lauren Liebenberg

She attended Brescia House School, an independent Catholic day school for girls situated in Bryanston.

Lebohang Mokoena

Lebohang Mokoena (born 29 September 1986 in Soweto, Gauteng) is a South African football (soccer) player for South African Premier Soccer League side Mamelodi Sundowns and South Africa.

Marais Viljoen

Viljoen was elected to the House of Assembly as MP for Alberton, near Johannesburg, as President of the Senate, and as acting State President from 21 August 1978 to 10 October 1978, after which B.J. Vorster was briefly elected to the position.

Never Ending Gardens

Never Ending Gardens is a division of Dream for Africa, a faith-based non-profit organization based in Gainesville, Georgia, USA, and in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa that seeks to alleviate hunger in Africa by building sustainable vegetable gardens in communities to improve their diet.

Pitika Ntuli

Pitika Ntuli (born 1942, Springs, Gauteng) is a South African sculptor, poet, writer, and academic who spent 32 years of his life in exile in Swaziland and the UK.

River Club

River Club, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa

SA Waste Holdings

On 12 May 2005, Gauteng environment minister Khabisi Mosunkutu paid a surprise visit to their recycling plant in Marlboro, near Alexandra (North of Johannesburg).

Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

The Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa (formally the Constitution Sixteenth Amendment Act of 2009) transferred Merafong City Local Municipality from North West to Gauteng, altering the boundary between the two provinces.

Sonja Herholdt

Herholdt subsequently decided to start a school for hearing and linguistically impaired Afrikaans children, this was housed in the pre-primary section of Bryanston Primary School.

Sri Lankan cricket team in South Africa in 2011–12

South Africa won the first Test in Centurion and Sri Lanka won the second in Durban, before South Africa won the third and deciding Test at Newlands, Cape Town, played from 3 to 6 January 2012.

Stanton Fredericks

Stanton "Stiga" Fredericks (born 13 June 1978 in Johannesburg, Gauteng) is a South African football (soccer) player who plays as midfielder for Bidvest Wits in the Premier Soccer League and has previously represented South Africa.

Sydney Mufamadi

He grew up in Meadowlands, Gauteng, and Tshisahulu, Venda (today Limpopo Province), where he first looked after his grandfather's cattle before attending school.

Teboho Mokoena

Teboho Patrick Mokoena (born 10 July 1974 in Thokoza, Gauteng) is a South African football (soccer) player.

Tete veld aethomys

However, the current best estimate suggests that Tete veld rats are found in Swaziland and northeastern South Africa, where they are found in the North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, and the northern part of Free State province.

Trans-Kalahari Corridor

The Trans-Kalahari Corridor is a paved highway corridor that provides a direct route from Walvis Bay and Windhoek in central Namibia, through Botswana, to Johannesburg and Pretoria in Gauteng province in South Africa.

Wally Grout

Downplayed the injury, he picked up 95 in an innings at Benoni and was given the nod.


Andrew Feinstein

A member of the African National Congress, his political life began when he served as an advisor to Gauteng's then-MEC of Finance, Jabu Moleketi, from 1994 to 1996.

Bhongolwethu Jayiya

Bhongolwethu Jayiya (born March 21, 1990 in Soweto, Gauteng) is a South African football (soccer) player who plays as a striker for Bidvest Wits in the Premier Soccer League.

Cyril Nzama

Cyril "Skhokho" Nzama (born June 26, 1974 in Soweto, Gauteng) is a retired South African football (soccer) defender who last played for Batau FC.

Driefontein, Gauteng

The place is situated in Merafong City local municipality, West Rand district, Gauteng province, South Africa.

Ertuğrul Osman

He was married twice, first in New York City, New York, on 20 January 1947 to Gulda Twerskoy (Johannesburg, Gauteng, 20 March 1915 – New York City, 16 September 1985), without issue.

Hoërskool Wonderboom

Hoërskool Wonderboom also known as Wonnies, is an Afrikaans-medium public high school situated in the city of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, on the southern slopes of the Magaliesberg.

Joel Díaz

On October 19, 1996, Joel lost a twelve round decision to undefeated IBF Lightweight champion Philip Holiday in Wembley Indoor Arena, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

Karoo Thrush

It occurs in South Africa (Little Namaqualand, Karoo and Northern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and part of the North West Province).

Limpopo Division

Until 1994, the area that is now Limpopo was part of the Transvaal Province and was within the jurisdiction of the Transvaal Provincial Division (now the Gauteng Division).

Nomvula Mokonyane

Nomvula Paula Mokonyane MPL (born 28 June 1963, Kagiso, Gauteng) is the Premier of Gauteng province, South Africa following the 2009 South African general election.

Pholosong Hospital

Pholosong Hospital is located in Tsakane, Gauteng, South Africa.

Sacred Heart College, Johannesburg

Sacred Heart College is a private Catholic school in Observatory, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

Sonja Herholdt

Herholdt was born in the small Gauteng mining village of Nigel, Gauteng and at the age of three made her first singing performance at the local community recreation hall, singing the Afrikaans lullaby Slaap, my Kindjie.

South African Archaeological Society

Branches of the Society were established and currently exist in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban/Pietermaritzburg and Bloemfontein/Kimberley.

South African municipal election, 2006

In the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, the ANC retained its majority in the metropolitan government, with former Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgope elected to succeed Smangaliso Mkhatshwa as mayor of Tshwane; Ramokgope also became the first female mayor of the municipality.

South African National Blood Service

The head office is in Weltevredenpark, Gauteng, near Johannesburg, but there are blood collection operations in eight of the nine provinces.

St. Andrew's School for Girls

St Andrew's School for Girls is a top independent Christian girls-only private day and boarding school and co-educational preschool situated in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

Thulani Hlatshwayo

Thulani Hlatswayo (born 18 December 1989 in Soweto, Gauteng) is a South African professional footballer, who currently plays as a defender for Ajax Cape Town.

Tsitana tsita

It is found from Winterberg and Amatolas in the eastern Cape along the Drakensberg into Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal down to sea level from Durban across the midlands to the Tugela, the Orange Free State, the eastern part of the North West Province and Gauteng into the Limpopo Province.

Van der Westhuizen

The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).

West Rand District Municipality

The West Rand District Municipality is one of the districts of Gauteng province of South Africa, that covers the West Rand area, with the exception of Roodepoort.