The Battle of Elands River took place near the Elands River Poort mountain pass on 17 September 1901 during the Second Boer War. During the battle a Boer raiding force under Jan Smuts destroyed a British cavalry squadron led by Captain Sandeman, a cousin of Winston Churchill, on the Modderfontein farm.
Population: 3,000
Latitude: -26° 05' 20.72" S
Longitude: 28° 09' 55.22" E
Northcliff is an affluent residential suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is located on Northcliff Ridge which offers vistas of the Central Business District on one side, and the leafy northern suburbs on the other. Northcliff's huge ho…
Brixton is a predominantly working class suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Johannesburg Botanical Garden is located in the suburb of Emmarentia in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Jeppe High School for Boys is a public secondary school is located in Kensington, a suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, one of the 23 Milner Schools.
Trust Bank Building is a skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1970 to a height of 140 metres. The building is the former head office of Trust Bank of South Africa, and as such has one of the larg…
Fordsburg is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Cornwall Hill College is a private school in Irene, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
Bidvest Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in the Braampark suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa.
Willowmoore Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Benoni, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Sandhurst is a suburb of Sandton in Region B of Johannesburg. It is one of the wealthiest suburbs in South Africa with some of the most expensive real estate in the country. It is featured frequently in the media for staggering home sale prices reac…
Rosettenville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Meadowlands is a suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa.
Marshalltown is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Germiston Stadium (formerly the Herman Immelman Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Germiston, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Moroka Swallows FC. It is also used for inter-school athletic…
Dobsonville Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is mostly used for football matches, but is also equipped with an athletics track. It is the home ground of Moroka Swallows, a football club which p…
The Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden (previously known as the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden) is a 300 hectares (3.0 km2) botanical reserve in Roodepoort near Johannesburg. Formally established in 1982, it is one of the youngest of S…
Parkview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It borders the suburb of Greenside and overlooks Zoo Lake, a park which lies on the opposite side of Jan Smuts Avenue from the Johannesburg Zoo. All of its streets are named after Irish counties. P…
Norwood is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 3 . It borders the suburbs of Orange Grove and Houghton. It is a garden suburb, with many of its homes dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. It is also one of the more popular …