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Don Sandton I

23 Smits Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng 2196 Sandton, Gauteng, 2198, South Africa

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A walk through the shadow of the valley of death

A travel blog entry by kingo

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... affected him) had died in a suspicious car crash on the way to finally visit his father. Only one daughter of the 4 is still alive today and she lives in Soweto and has nothing to do with politics. His first wife left him. She became a Jehovas witness while he was imprisoned and she was not to mix relegation and politics and was forced to chose between her new religion of him. He came home to an empty house. After our visit there we drove down the street and saw the ...

Africa Round Up

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... and deaths and brutality were the day to day norm. The shock factor? This was taking place up to the 1990's. Each "non-European" had to carry their race card on them at all times- the punishment for being without it on any of the numerous random checks was incarceration for an unknown period of time. This faction gave rise to civil rights movements and activists which included major names like Ghandi and Mandela, and even though the end result is a good one (Mandela ...

Johannesburg and Landrovers

A travel blog entry by marinafaycal

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... areas are very bad and basically all areas at night, but tourist that don't walk around with a new shining watch or camera are seldom victim for violent robbery or such. It didn't fail to mention though that Johannesburg has the highest crime rate in the world and 52 people are murdered every day and so on. So yes, it is not a city where one wants to push ones luck and stroll around at 2 am. We have no urge to see the city at night, for except maybe Melville that is suppose to be ...

A week with a con artist...

A travel blog entry by s.l.taylor

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... I don't know what the hell that boy would have done if Paddy and I hadn't been there. I hear now that he'd done a runner from the hostel and has attempted to use a fake credit card somewhere else... I just pray he doesn't take advantage of anyone else. I mean, he's got the act down to a t.. giving it the generous charming act firstly, then a 'I've hit a bump, do you mind helping until I get sorted out' after. I can't believe I ever trusted a single word ...

A reflection of Jo’burg

A travel blog entry by reneshn

... so its fairly well stocked. I met with Professor Jacques Goosen, the head of the unit and a world-renowned trauma surgeon. This guy is pretty much worshipped in South Africa; he sits as the right hand man to Nelson Mandela in this country. He showed me around the place and within an hour or so of being there, we got the heads up that there was a two taxi head on collision with multiple casualties. Now in many parts of ...

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