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English: Map of municipal boundaries in Gauteng, as they will be after the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, with the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality highlighted in red. Based on File:Map of Gauteng with municipalities blank (2011).svg.
English: Map of district boundaries in South Africa, as they will be after the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, with the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality highlighted in red within Gauteng in yellow.
The collection consists of art, books & pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, and photographs. [5] One of the oldest items in the collection was published in approximately 1488. The book, an incunabulum, records exploration routes down the West African coast discovered by Portuguese explorers. [6]
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The suburbs of Johannesburg are officially [citation needed] demarcated areas within the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa. As in other Commonwealth countries, the term suburb refers to a "neighbourhood", although in South Africa most (but not all) "suburbs" have legally recognised borders (see legal definition of ...
The Johannesburg City Library is situated in the central business district of the City of Johannesburg. [2] The Library is located in an Italianate building [3] designed by John Perry which first opened in 1935. It has over 1.5-million books and items in its collection and more than 250 000 members. [4]
Johannesburg also has one of several film schools in the country, one of which has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Student Film in 2006. [97] The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance, or AFDA for short, is situated in Auckland Park. Johannesburg also has three teacher-training colleges and a technical college.
This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef was discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of Johannesburg.As part of the restructuring of municipalities in South Africa at the time, the local governments of the East Rand (excluding Modderfontein and Linksfield) were merged into a single municipality in 1999, called the City of ...