Central Sandton

Sandton is a town in the northern part of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area, South Africa in the Gauteng Province. The name comes from the combination of two suburbs, Sandown and Bryanston, both of which were named after places in the United Kingdom. Photo of Sandton File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Photo of Sandton File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area is the official name of the area surrounding the city of Johannesburg, in South Africa. ... The Republic of South Africa is a large republic located at the southern tip of the continent. ... Categories: South Africa stubs | Provinces of South Africa | Gauteng Province ... Bryanston is an upper class residential suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent...

The municipality was established as an extension of the city in 1969, after Johannesburg began to expand northwards. After the demise of Apartheid and the manifestation of the new political dispensation, Sandton became part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municiplaity following new demarcations put forward by the government, and it no longer has a seperate municipal government. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Apartheid ( International Phonetic Alphabet in English and in Afrikaans) is the policy and the system of laws implemented and enforced by White minority governments in South Africa from 1948 till 1990; and by extension any legally sanctioned system of racial segregation. ... Johannesburgs skyline as seen from the observation deck of the Carlton Centre. ...

It has become the new financial centre of South Africa and Johannesburg's premier business centre. Much of the financial focus of Johannesburg has shifted from the Central Business District to Sandton, especially in the last 15 years. Only South Africa's four largest banks have kept their head offices in downtown Johannesburg, as well as Transnet, the transport parastatal.

But much of the "new money" has moved north to Sandton, including investment banks, financial consultants and the like. A considerable amount of the city's A-grade office space is to be found in Sandton. The JSE Securities Exchange, Johannesburg's stock exchange, relocated its offices to Sandton from the Central Business District in the late 1990s. Sandton's gain was the central business district's loss: it resulted in urban blight and "white flight" of the downtown Johannesburg area. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange or the JSE Securities Exchange is largest stock exchange in Africa. ... A stock exchange is an organization of which the members are stock brokers. ... White flight is a colloquial term for the demographic trend of whites moving away from areas with large non-white populations. ...

Sandton is home to the Sandton Convention Centre, one of the largest convention centres on the continent and primary site of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (also known as "Rio + 10"), which Johannesburg hosted. The convention centre also hosted the African National Congress' victory celebrations after the party won the 2004 elections. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The World Summit on Sustainable Development (or Earth Summit 2002) was held in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002. ... The African National Congress (ANC), originally (until 1923) South African Native National Congress, has been South Africas governing party since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

One of the main attractions in Sandton is Sandton City, which ranks among the largest shopping centres in Africa. Together with Nelson Mandela Square, the centre, with some 144,000m² of shopping space, is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, larger than Sydney's Westfield Parramatta or Melbourne's Westfield Southland centres. Much of Johannesburg's business tourism is centred on Sandton, which has a string of 5-star hotels. Sandton City is South Africas most prestigious shopping centre. ... Statue at Nelson Mandela Square. ...

Nelson Mandela Square, formerly known as Sandton Square, was renamed in March 2004, after the unveiling of a 6-metre bronze statue of the former president, arguably South Africa's greatest statesman. Perhaps ironically, Liliesleaf Farm, where Mandela and other political activists were arrested in the 1960s and tried as part of the now infamous Rivonia Trial, is north of Nelson Mandela Square, close to the N1 freeway, off Rivonia Road. The area is now home to massive office parks and other developments, and little remains of the farm. Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born 18 July 1918) a former President of South Africa, was one of its chief anti-apartheid activists, and was also an anti-apartheid saboteur. ... The Rivonia Trial was an infamous trial which took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to ferment violent revolution. It was named after Rivonia, the suburb of Johannesburg where 19 ANC... Route map of the N1 The N1 is a South African National Road, running from Cape Town to Beit Bridge on the border with Zimbabwe. ...

The Sandton area is one of the most opulent and wealthy in Johannesburg and South Africa, but not far away from Alexandra, one of the poorest former black townships. This is evidenced by the new 140-metre tall Michelangelo Towers, which will offer Manhattan-style living in Johannesburg. The new apartment block will be the fourth-tallest building in Johannesburg and local newspaper the Sunday Times reports that the top-selling penthouse apartment was sold for R28 million (around $5 million). Alexandra (sometimes nicknamed Alex) is a township located in Gauteng province, South Africa. ... In South Africa, the term township applies to many types of urban areas, however, under Apartheid, the term township commonly came to mean a single-race residential development which confined non-whites (Africans, coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in white-only communities. ...

Concerns have been raised as to whether Sandton has the necessary road and water infrastructure to sustain the massive development that is characteristic of Johannesburg.