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In the spirit of the festive season and demonstrating to their passion for the marine life and the environment, @ Communications Green Public Relations has adopted a wild penguin in support of SANCCOB’s ‘Adopt a Christmas Chick’ campaign. The adorable penguin chick, which the @ Communications Green Public Relations team has aptly named ‘Joey’ (Johannesburg), is currently being hand-reared at SANCCOB.
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The Breakfast Xpress launches on 94.7 Highveld Stereo on Monday August 2 and promises Joburg a breakfast show that’s as dynamic as the city itself.
Featuring the same personalities who have been part of listeners’ lives for years, the team is taking the show to new levels with an urban, fast-paced, edgy energy, and a host of great new features.
.thumbnail.JPG "Fans out in the thousands dressed in soccer gear with flags and vuvuzelas lining the streets of Sandton for Bafana Bafana!")
Fans from all over Joburg were out in the thousands dressed in soccer gear with flags and vuvuzelas lining the street of Sandton to show their support for Bafana Bafana and to see them for the last time before the take on Mexico in the first match of the World Cup on Friday.
Situated on Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkview, the Johannesburg Zoo is one of the city’s most popular haunts. The huge 54 hectare green lung is the place where the two tributaries of the Braamfontein Spruit meet, set in almost park-like surrounds in the heart of the northern suburbs.
Set on the western shores of the Emmarentia Dam, Johannesburg Botanic Garden is one of the city’s parks - a green space in the middle of Jo'burgs northern suburbs about 6 kilometres from the city centre - with over 30 000 trees, a large rose garden, the site of over 4 500 varieties, and a space through which Jo’burgers can stroll and meet to relax for picnics and play with children.
Reputed to be the best dog walk in Johannesburg, Emmarentia Dam lies next to the Botanic Garden in Emmarentia, north Johannesburg. Tranquil lawns in which families can meet and play, walkways peppered with wooden benches placed strategically to afford moments of stillness and reflection, make this a sprawling and popular park for escapes from city living.
The Parkview Residents Association has joined hands with the Parktown and Westcliff Heritage Trust in a last-ditch appeal to Gauteng’s Arts and Culture MEC Barbara Creecy in an attempt to save the suburb’s most significant heritage building from further vandalisation.
This picture of Zoo Lake circa 1928 is available as a postcard at the Information Kiosk (near the Moyo parking lot) at Zoo Lake.
