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Johannesburg’s historic old fort stands in Kotzi Street on Hospital Hill, to the north of the city centre. In 1896 the Government of the South African Republic decided to build a fort round the existing prison. The prison was built already in 1892 and enlarged in 1894. The fort was completed in 1899 and handed over to the State Artillery.
The Old Fort was declared a National Monument in 1964 although it continued as a functioning prison until 1987, after which the buildings and the site as a whole suffered from neglect and vandalism. [3] Constitution Hill opened as a museum in 2004, with tours taking the visitors to three prison museums: Number Four, the Women's Gaol and the Old ...
Fort Armstrong: Kat River: 1836 Fort Beaufort: Fort Beaufort: 1839 Cock's Castle Port Alfred: About 1840 Fort Cox: Middledrift: 1835 Fort Frederick: Gqeberha: 1799 Fort Glamorgan East London: 1848 Fort Hare: Alice: 1835 Fort Murray King Williams Town: 1835 Fort Peddie Peddie: 1835 Fort Selwyn Grahamstown: 1836 Soffiantini's Castle East London ...
Fort Daspoortrand, Gauteng(1896–1898) Fort Durnford, Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal (1847) Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape (19th century) Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria, Gauteng (1890s) Fort Mistake, Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal; Fort Nongqayi, KwaZulu-Natal (1883) Fort Schanskop, Gauteng (1890s) Fort Wonderboompoort, Gauteng (1897) Greylingstad, Mpumalanga (c ...
Fur trading companies that operated trading forts in Canada includes the Hudson's Bay Company, and the North West Company. Many of these were simply stockades, log enclosures for trading posts, although a few were former military installations which was later used by fur trading companies.
At 223 metres (730 ft), it was the tallest building in Africa for 46 years and stands at about half the height of the Willis Tower (the former Sears Tower) in Chicago. It was the tallest building in the southern hemisphere when originally completed, and remains the fifth-tallest building in Africa and the second-tallest in sub-Saharan Africa.
Benoni is situated towards the centre of the East Rand and lies on the urban fringe where the urban area dissolves into the smallholdings and farmland to the north. It borders on Kempton Park to the north-west, Boksburg to the west, Brakpan to the south and Daveyton to the east.
The forts around Pretoria were systematically disarmed long before the British forces occupied Pretoria, as both men and artillery were needed in the field. Both Fort Klapperkop and Fort Schanskop were fired upon on 3 June 1900 by British artillery, but the fire wasn't returned and Pretoria was occupied without resistance on 5 June 1900.