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FTER a few hours at the Apartheid Museum you will feel that you were in the townships in the 70s and 80s, dodging police bullets or teargas canisters, or marching and toy-toying with thousands of school children, or carrying the body of a comrade into a nearby house.
This extraordinarily powerful museum has already become the city s leading tourist attraction, an obligatory stop for visitors and residents alike. The Museum, with its large blown-up photographs, metal cages and numerous monitors recording continuous replays of apartheid scenes set in a double volume ceiling, concrete and red brick walls and grey concrete floor, is next to the Gold Reef City Casino, five kilometres south of the city centre.
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Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec
Southwest of Johannesburg - near the Gold Reef City Casino, the Apartheid Museum and Soweto - is Johannesburg Expo Centre.
The massive exhibition facilities offer 42 000 square metres of undercover space. The centre is also quite self-sufficient: it has its own banks, post office, telecommunication services and secure parking for up to 20 000 vehicles.
The main arena can accommodate an impressive 20 000 people. Another venue, the Black Eagle, can be divided into three sections. The Bateleur, which is slightly larger, easily divides into two. It can seat 1 000 delegates cinema-style. The centre is within easy reach of restaurants and fast-food outlets.
Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec
Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec
Southwest of Johannesburg - near the Gold Reef City Casino, the Apartheid Museum and Soweto - is Johannesburg Expo Centre.
The massive exhibition facilities offer 42 000 square metres of undercover space. The centre is also quite self-sufficient: it has its own banks, post office, telecommunication services and secure parking for up to 20 000 vehicles.
The main arena can accommodate an impressive 20 000 people. Another venue, the Black Eagle, can be divided into three sections. The Bateleur, which is slightly larger, easily divides into two. It can seat 1 000 delegates cinema-style. The centre is within easy reach of restaurants and fast-food outlets.
Nair says the laws regarding the discharge of fireworks vary according to the different municipalities.
While some may have a complete ban on fireworks, others have only placed a time frame at which members can discharge fireworks.
“The SPCA has no jurisdiction over these laws,” she notes.
“Each local SPCA, however, works with the SAPS where possible where cruelty has or is likely to be involved in relation to the discharge of fireworks.
She says the NSPCA is thinly stretched over the festive season and not just due to fireworks being set off.
“A number of stray, surrender, sick and injured animals are brought in as a result of drunken drivers, irresponsible pet owners, and all the other issues that come along with the festive season which affects animals and their welfare,” says Nair.