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The mural does not depict one event, but represents the fractured nature of the human condition and society of the time in South Africa. [10] In 2023, the Oppenheimer family moved their collection from the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) to the Brenthurst Library. [11] The collection had been on permanent loan to the JAG since the mid-1980s.
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Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa, producing 16% of South Africa's gross domestic product, and accounts for 40% of Gauteng's economic activity. [ citation needed ] In a 2008 survey conducted by Mastercard , Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top cities in the world as a worldwide centre of commerce (the only city in ...
As of the 2011 census, Parkview had a population of 3,869 people with a population density of 2,300 people per square kilometer. The majority of people spoke English as a first language (68.7%), with others speaking Afrikaans (11.1%), Zulu (4.6%), Tswana (3.2%), or another language (12.4%) as their first language.
The Johannesburg Review of Books (or JRB) is a South African online magazine based on other literary magazines such as The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. Its bi-monthly issues include reviews, essays, poetry, photographs, and short fiction focused predominantly but not exclusively on South Africa and other African ...
The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal. New York: Walker Publishing. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8027-1641-5. Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1880-1899. Cape Town: Zebra Press. 2010. ISBN 9781770220805. Showdown at the Red Lion: The Life and Times of Jack McLoughlin, 1859-1910. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball ...
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In 1951, Pam Joseph, in partnership with Philip Joseph's mother, Pauline, purchased a small second-hand bookshop in the centre of Johannesburg and renamed it Exclusive Books. Philip Joseph expanded the business by setting up a further branch in 1954 in Hillbrow, then one of the most densely populated areas in the world.