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    Hillbrow ( /ˈhɪlbroʊ/) is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is known for its high levels of population...
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    The Hillbrow Tower (officially the Telkom Joburg Tower, and formerly JG Strijdom Tower) is a tall tower located in the suburb of Hillbrow in Johannesburg...
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  • Highpoint Hillbrow is a skyscraper in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1972 to a height of 105 metres. The building is mostly apartments...
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  • Lucky creates the "Hillbrow People’s Housing Trust". The trust allows Kunene to build an empire of apartment buildings in Hillbrow. He promises residents...
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    skyscraper in the Berea suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, just next to Hillbrow. It was built in 1975 to a height of 173 m (567.6 ft), and was the tallest...
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    identifiable landmark in the city, alongside its "architectural cousin", the Hillbrow Tower. Although always intended for both radio and television transmission...
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  • Welcome to Our Hillbrow, is a novel by South African novelist Phaswane Mpe which deals with issues of xenophobia, AIDS, tradition, and inner city status...
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  • in the deprived inner city area of Hillbrow, a place where he later set his first novel. Welcome to Our Hillbrow was an important work as it was the...
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  • Hillbrow School was an English boys' preparatory school established in 1859 in the Midland town of Rugby. The founder was John William Joseph Vecquerary...
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    the centre of German cultural life. With the change in the population in Hillbrow beginning in the 1980s the congregation saw a decline in German speaking...
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    the gold standard.[citation needed] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the apartheid government...
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    This is not only true of previously established residential areas such as Hillbrow on the periphery of the CBD but also of former office blocks in the heart...
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    also has a business district called Strijdompark named after him. The Hillbrow Tower in Johannesburg was officially named the J.G. Strijdom Tower until...
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    debut album. The song was accompanied by a music video which was filmed in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, and Kliptown, Soweto. In February 2022, Gunna teamed up...
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  • mother's house while she was studying Grade 11 in 2020. She got a job at Hillbrow Radio Station as a radio presenter prior working at a club situated at...
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    inner city. The suburbs close to the CBD, in particular Joubert Park, Hillbrow, and Berea, have a large number of high-rise apartment blocks. These areas...
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    Tbilisi TV Broadcasting Tower 274.5 m (901 ft) 1972  Georgia Tbilisi 57 Hillbrow Tower 269 m (883 ft) 1971 Concrete  South Africa Johannesburg Tallest in...
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  • number of night clubs and galleries opened in Yeoville, or relocated from Hillbrow. This led to the neighbourhood becoming the leading nightspot in the city...
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  • video, directed by Nabil, was mainly filmed in the Johannesburg areas of Hillbrow and Soweto, and was regarded by local media as an authentic representation...
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  • author Phaswane Mpe's 2001 novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow, the protagonist Refentse moves to Hillbrow, a place devoid of a history and shared values or...
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  • west of the north–south section of Houghton Drive (bordering Parktown and Hillbrow). Houghton is surrounded by wealthy suburbs in all directions, except south...
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    of apartheid. The Gay Association of South Africa (GASA), based in the Hillbrow district in central Johannesburg, was a predominantly white organisation...
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  • advance gay rights in the South African political arena and to reinstate Hillbrow as a whites-only area. De Beer ultimately won the election and ousted the...
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  • illicit activity. In South Africa, the most prominent urban decay case is Hillbrow, an inner-city neighborhood of Johannesburg which was formerly affluent...
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  • architect Hermann Kallenbach. It is located in the Johannesburg suburb of Hillbrow. It is an affiliate of the South African Union for Progressive Judaism...
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  • Hillside suburb in Johannesburg. 99 Caroline Street English 1979 13 episodes SABC A local comedy series featuring two girls who live in a flat in Hillbrow....
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  • for 35 years from 1988 until 2023. Watts was born on 24 November 1948 in Hillbrow, in the heart of Johannesburg, Transvaal. He later moved to the second...
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  • second novel, Droomwa, is based on the time he spent with his family in Hillbrow as a child. He attended Voorbrand Primary School and later matriculated...
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    and Official Secrets. Hood was born in Johannesburg and grew up in the Hillbrow area. He is the son of the English-born South African retailer Gordon Hood...
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    mostly migrated to more middle-class Jewish areas such as Doornfontein, Hillbrow and Yeoville. The suburb has its origin as farmland owned by Frederick...
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