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Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, 1944, just four years before the National Party (South Africa) came to power in South Africa. His early education took place in the poverty-stricken township of Alexandra and later at Morris Isaacson High School – the school in Jabavu , Soweto , and Sacred Heart Commercial High School ...
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
Mike Alfred is a South African poet, journalist, and historian who lives in Muizenberg Cape Town. His poems have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals. . He has produced six collections of poetry and three books and many articles and papers about the city and people of Johannesbu
A collection of short stories and poems, Brooding Clouds, was published posthumously in 2008. Mpe was born in the northern city of Polokwane in Tiragalong, [ 2 ] and moved to Johannesburg at the age of 19 to attend university, [ 1 ] and ended up living in the deprived inner city area of Hillbrow , a place where he later set his first novel.
Johannesburg (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ h æ n ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / joh-HAN-iss-burg, US also /-ˈ h ɑː n-/- HAHN-, Afrikaans: [jʊəˈɦanəsbœrχ]; Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli [ɛˈɡɔːli]) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") [12] [13] is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people in the City of Johannesburg alone. [7]
This is a list of cities and towns in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Most towns are no longer separate municipalities, their local governments having been merged into larger structures . In the case of settlements that have had their official names changed the traditional name is listed first followed by the new name.
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The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseGoli) is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. It is divided into several branches and departments in order to expedite services for the city.