Johannesburg

The businessmen who pour in on the thrice-weekly jumbo jet from Johannesburg drive out of the airport car park straight into a slum.

One might have thought this would serve as a lesson to other public officials dealing with the poor in the misery of Johannesburg's winter.

We have seen a year in which the commitments reached at Doha, Monterrey, and Johannesburg have laid a new basis for a global deal.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A century ago, it was the explorers and infantrymen of Europe's great powers slugging it out for slices of Africa.

Then usually we follow it up by going to Capetown and Johannesburg and visiting the projects that we fund. And we did that this year.

Among those to have survived to tell the tale is a 28-year-old from Tembisa, a township near Johannesburg, who does not wish to be named.

The party said the decision would allow the MDC to hold its rally in the capital Horary tomorrow. Peter Burns reports from Johannesburg .

However, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg.

If you think your drive to work is bad then spare a thought for commuters in the cities of Beijing , Mexico City and Johannesburg .

THE receptionist at the office of Chancellor House Holdings in one of Johannesburg's poshest suburbs is smilingly polite but discreet.

In downtown Johannesburg, those who have lost their homes often move to the next derelict building to stay close to their livelihood.

Mandela's favourite undercover base was a small hut among the outbuildings at Lilliesleaf Farm in the Rivonia suburb of Johannesburg.

Our products have had no problems and have been distributed to several boutique stores on sale in Pretoria and Johannesburg.

The city of Durban has already made a pitch; Cape Town may follow; Johannesburg for the moment is keeping mum.

The Afriqiyah Airways plane was arriving from Johannesburg, South Africa, and is believed to have crashed just short of the runway.

Aging infrastructure and cable theft often leave swathes of Johannesburg in the dark.

The UK and China must work together and with our international partners to implement all the ambitious commitments made at Johannesburg.

And recently I had an opportunity to spend a year (2008-2009) working in Johannesburg with the Rea Vaya BRT project team.

But the day that she walked into my Johannesburg hotel she was vibrant and enthusiastic.

Twelve women in central Johannesburg were allegedly lured to a hotel room and raped by a man due to appear in court next week.

Oh, the North Koreans took the field Tuesday night, and kicked the ball around in suddenly frigid Johannesburg.

Ugly aliens invade South Africa and are herded into a slum near Johannesburg, to the disgust of local residents.

That he was gunned down on the streets of Johannesburg re-echoes those years when Jo'burg was the most dangerous city to live in.

Argentina's Gabriel Heinze (left) and Mexico's Ricardo Osorio fight for the ball during their match at Soccer City in Johannesburg June 27.

The main stadiums in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban will most likely be used for local sports and cultural events.

There, that's magic, said Cherry Hochfelden of Johannesburg, South Africa, as the sky turned dark.

At the other end of the scale, Johannesburg replaced Blantyre, Malawi as the cheapest city on the planet.

President Jacob Zuma launched the testing campaign on Sunday in Johannesburg. He announced the results of his latest blood test for H. I. V.

To finish in time, staff in Johannesburg camped out on the floor of World Cup broadcast centre.

Meanwhile the company set up many bedding, curtain and timbering shopping malls in emporium of Johannesburg.

Thursday's win in Johannesburg gave Slovakia four points in the opening round and propelled the team to a second-place finish in Group F.

Keen amateur and professional astronomers had a perfect opportunity to view the phenomenon with clear skies in Johannesburg and Tripoli.

A youngster enjoys the sun as she sits in the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg June 9, 2010.

Well, I'm literally in the thick of it, in the central business district of Johannesburg.

Early testing of this text messaging campaign helped triple the average daily call volume to the National AIDS Helpline in Johannesburg.

The BBC Sports news correspondent Alex Capstick described the scene outside Soccer City in Johannesburg as the game finished.

In 2002, the Earth Summit was held in Johannesburg, South Africa. One of the main themes was "sustainable development" .

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. What I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

In my life I've found myself the only pedestrian in Los Angeles, and the only white pedestrian in Johannesburg.

Johannesburg is also known as the economic engine of Southern Africa and the trendsetter of South Africa.

The Mai Mai Market is the oldest market in Johannesburg and is a great place to discover traditional remedies.

But by the early 1960s the country boy was in his Johannesburg bunker urging all black African workers to down tools for three days.

In 1954, thousands of black African residents of Johannesburg were relocated to a new suburb called South West Township.

The Discovery group, based in Johannesburg, has crafted a programme called Vitality that applies the "air miles" model to health care.

Cleanliness Is Saintliness Fellow practitioners clean the streets and parks near the Johannesburg Center .

They trek halfway across the galaxy, run out of gas and end up living off cat food in, of all places, 1980s Johannesburg.

The money will be paid over 12 months to Johannesburg-based Stanton Woodrush, who registered the name almost 20 years ago.

Johannesburg's new 94, 000-seat stadium, inspired by the shape of a traditional African pot, sparkles against the city's skyline.

Gail took advantage of the coverage to raise money and found a house in Johannesburg for some women and their kids.

Thus, the same kick in Johannesburg compared with one at sea level would cause a soccer ball to travel faster and on a less curved path.

His search took him to the Sterkfontein Cave near Johannesburg in the Transvaal region in 1936, where he found skulls of adult apemen.

True, Johannesburg's creaky transport links would improve a bit, but "it wasn't as much as we had thought" .

While I was in Johannesburg, violence against foreigners broke out in the townships.

Mexico City topped the list with Shenzhen, Beijing, Nairobi and Johannesburg rounding out the top five.

At a two-day retreat in Johannesburg in the middle of last month, the assembled MDC leadership reached the same conclusion.

UN refugee spokesman, Ron Redmond, says UNHCR field teams have been sent to areas around Johannesburg and Cape Town.

One place I go often now is South Africa. And I'm not talking about Johannesburg or Cape Town.

The first link, between Johannesburg's financial center, Sandton, and the airport is to be open in time for the World Cup.

Two European teams -- the Netherlands and Spain -- will play for the trophy in Sunday's final at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium.

A huge alien ship has hovered, motionless, over the skies of Johannesburg, South Africa, for two decades.

A woman begs at a Johannesburg traffic light on Monday.

The drama began when a gang of about twenty men robbed a supermarket on the western outskirts of Johannesburg.

Johannesburg's residential areas and nightlife were set aside for whites during the apartheid years.

A 12-month-old baby is beaten to a pulp by house burglars in an upmarket Johannesburg suburb.

The administrative capital of South Africa, in the northeast part of the country north of Johannesburg .

A mini-van decorated with Portuguese flags speeds away after the arrival of Portugal's national football team in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Aid workers report rapes and sexual exploitation are occurring and add hock shouters at ad hoc shelters in Johannesburg and Durban.

Argentina's players celebrate after Gonzalo Higuain's goal against South Korea at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Police fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in Johannesburg, the Western Cape and the northeastern region of Mpumalanga.

A yellow-billed hornbill rests its beak on the camera hood at the Johannesburg Zoological Gardens, South Africa.

From free-kick takers to WAGs, blasts from the past to the youngsters, we'll have it all covered before things kick-off in Johannesburg.

The incident came just hours before the former South African president was due to attend the opening of the World Cup in Johannesburg.

On Saturday I was at Johannesburg City Hall for the seventh Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.

It may well have sleeper cells in Nairobi, in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and even as far afield as South Africa's Johannesburg.

As soon as I arrived in Johannesburg I caught a connecting flight to Durban. On the plane I was struck by the diversity of the passengers.

The main stadium, Soccer City in Johannesburg, is at 1701 metres.

Honduras' Roger Espinoza kicks the ball in front of Spain's Joan Capdevila during their match at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg June 21.

Dabba offers free local calls to the people of Orange Farm, a township near Johannesburg where it has built its first network.

a large collection of African townships southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa; inhabited solely by Black Africans.

Wolfowitz also attended a round-table discussion with private sector leaders in Johannesburg.

After his release from prison, Nelson Mandela gave his first speech in Johannesburg in the stadium now named Soccer City.

But outside the stadiums in Johannesburg, the vuvuzelas can sell for up to $8.

Aid workers report rapes and sexual exploitation are occurring at ad hoc shelters in Johannesburg and Durban.

Beijing and Mexico City scored 99 out of 100 in IBM's commuter pain index, trailed closely by Johannesburg, Moscow and New Delhi.

Argentina head coach Diego Maradona reacts during the match against Nigeria at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg June 12.

Turkish Airlines now has regular flights to Addis Ababa, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi.

Swimming on the roof in Monaco, some past December swims came back to me: in my grandparents' pool in white Johannesburg in the 1980s.

The opening ceremony kicks off on Friday afternoon at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg.

The Johannesburg summit set the goal of restoring depleted fish stocks to a sustainable level by 2015.

Undulating over Soweto's hills in southern Johannesburg are oceans of corrugated metal shacks.

The Hope Center project on the outskirts of Johannesburg provides services to those with non-communicable diseases.

Johannesburg, South Africa's business capital, is facing similar problems.

And in Johannesburg, people gathered at the Witwatersrand Planetarium to enjoy the clear view.

A Johannesburg clinic warned that fans sharing the plastic horns risked spreading germs.

vuvuzela: The South African plastic trumpet that invaded, like locusts, the World Cup matches in Johannesburg.

She had little time, she jokes, to enjoy the view of Johannesburg and the surrounding highveld.

Soccer City, also known as the FNB Stadium, seen in Johannesburg on May 11, 2010.

Nowadays, Johannesburg has become the biggest city in South Africa, the economic capital of the country.

Johannesburg's Chinatown employs many South African Black workers.

shown here is a metal bike made from a soda can found on John's trip to South Africa at a Johannesburg flea market.

In mid-February 1975, an acutely ill Australian man, aged 20 years, was admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.

World Cup Fever has taken over the city of Johannesburg.

This week, bones from Australopithecus Sediba are unveiled at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

The Libyan plane was flying from the South African city of Johannesburg to Tripoli when the accident happened.

In Johannesburg , experts discussed the three biggest killers in the world: contaminated drinking water, poor sanitation and air pollution.

10 p. m. Head to the Radium Beerhall (theradium. co. za), Johannesburg's oldest surviving bar and grill and an authentic jazz venue.

According to reports from the US, the pair will marry in a small village just outside Johannesburg.

Perry, according to the Johannesburg -based Sunday Times newspaper, faces extradition.

Nicky Oppenheimer insists that the family will stay connected with South Africa: they are still based in Johannesburg.

She's a senior official for Gauteng, the province that includes Johannesburg.

Johannesburg's smart set flocks to new dance clubs like Inc. , launched in 2009 in the city's central business district.

Argentina's Jonas Gutierrez has issued a warning to Mexico ahead of Sunday's crunch last 16 clash. at Johannesburg's Soccer City.

A victory in the opening game meant a celebration for Argentine fans in Johannesburg.

A fan kisses her ticket prior to a Group F first round World Cup match on June 24, 2010 at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg.

A lioness has attacked and killed a 65-year-old South African zoo keeper at a farm owned by Johannesburg Zoo.

In mid-February 1975, an Australian, aged 20 years, was admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Local children play soccer on a dirt pitch in a Soweto township on June 7, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sefu, a refugee displaced by xenophobic violence who was turned away for care at Johannesburg General Hospital.

Mr Tsvangirai's expectations rose after he met Mr Zuma in Johannesburg last month.

Paraguay's Nelson Valdez jumps over Spain's Gerard Pique during their match July 3 at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg.

Portugal's supporters cheer during a warm-up match against Mozambique at the Wanderers stadium in Johannesburg, Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

Auckland, Sydney, Johannesburg and Jakarta also rose through the ranks because of their rising currency.

The capital of Gauteng, Johannesburg, will be front-and-center during the World Cup.

The Airbus 330 crashed on landing at Tripoli airport after a flight from Johannesburg, Afriqiyah Airways said.

The 34-year-old animal behaviourist runs a conservation park near Johannesburg in South Africa where he also keeps cheetahs and hyenas.

He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about my future.

Baloyi works at his home in a shanty town outside Johannesburg.

The final showdown between these two, staged in Johannesburg's Ellis Park Stadium, takes almost 20 minutes.

A city of northeast South Africa southwest of Johannesburg.

MobileActive hopes to hold its next meeting in July in Johannesburg.

The site of the June 11 opening game for the 2010 World Cup, Soccer City sits in Johannesburg's Soweto Township.

Johannesburg is sub-Saharan Africa's wealthiest city.

Spain move on to face Paraguay in the quarter-finals in Johannesburg on Saturday.

In South Africa, about 80 people gathered at the Johannesburg Securities Exchange, Talk Radio 702 reported.

Very soon after gold was discovered in Johannesburg in 1886, my ancestors pitched up there.

South African gold output peaked at more than 1 million kilograms in 1970, the Johannesburg-based Chamber of Mines says.

In Harare a 10% drop in rainfall over Johannesburg and Bloemfontein will lead to a 70% drop in river levers.

University of Johannesburg political analyst Adam Habib tells VOA that Mr. Mugabe needs to halt the collapse in Zimbabwe's economy.

Some 2400 miners were on the day shift last Tuesday morning at the Kinross gold mine, 65 miles from Johannesburg.

Primary school children perform a play celebrating the soccer World Cup on June 8, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

We played one game in Johannesburg in that tournament.

Johannesburg, South Africa. A man shot his 49-year-old friend in the face while the two practiced shooting beer cans off each other's head.

In 1952 , Mandela set up law office to help poor black people in Johannesburg.

Tokyo scores 143. 7 points and is nearly three times as costly as the cheapest city, Johannesburg, which has an index score of 49. 6.

IT IS hard to imagine that a shooting in Johannesburg could spell instability in the distant heart of Africa.

Birds sit on a tree at the sunset in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, June 23, 2010.

More than 90, 000 fans are expected to attend the opening game at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium.

Over 2. 5 million-pond worth of South Africa shirts were seized in Johannesburg. One from Swaziland was arrested.

Municipal workers paint the 2010 structure at the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday June 8, 2010.

A news conference will be held at 12. 30pm, Thursday, 7 September, at the conference venue: Sunnyside Park Hotel, Parktown, Johannesburg.

The distance from Cape Town to Johannesburg is 880 miles, the same as London to Warsaw, and it would take about 17 hours to drive.

In central Johannesburg the Methodist church has become a refuge for about 1, 000 people, most of them Zimbabweans.

But more than that, Johannesburg has become a truly African city, melding disparate people from across the continent.

In Alexandra, a dense township of 500, 000 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with 65 percent unemployment, Coca-Cola is sidling right up.

The team hail from a rural township near Tzaneen, 600 km (373 miles) north of Johannesburg.

In the lobby I ran into Ernie Christie, a cameraman working for the BBC, who lived in Johannesburg.

In addition, a nurse who cared for the index case in South Africa died on 5 October in Johannesburg.

In2002, the Earth Summit was held in Johannesburg in South Africa.

Tomlinson, "From Exclusion to Inclusion: Rethinking Johannesburg's Central City. " Environment and Planning A, 31 (1999): 1665-1678.

A seminar in Johannesburg for businessmen considering investing in China was packed out.

JOHANNESBURG - Germany nipped Ghana 1-0 in their last World Cup Group D game, a result which sent both teams into the last 16.

Johannesburg A lovely child curiously have a touch with red lantern on Feb. 3, 2008 in Johannesburg, the largest city of South Africa.

Johannesburg is 5, 500 feet above sea level, even higher than Denver.

This is Kabul; this is Dresden; this is Johannesburg.

This group was organized last year during the World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

TEBOGO, aged 25, is a security guard in Johannesburg, earning just 11. 38 rand an hour.

Mr Glasenberg, however, was told a job was available back home in Johannesburg.

We bought a house in Johannesburg, South Africa.

How long will you be staying in Johannesburg?

Roundtrip Economy class air ticket for Hong Kong and Johannesburg on TG (E-Ticket).

Other things being equal, Johannesburg has an atmospheric pressure around 81 per cent that of Cape Town

People walk past graffiti on a wall in Yeoville, a Johannesburg suburb with a huge population of immigrants from across Africa

Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation of Johannesburg;

In 1989 a giant flying saucer stalled in the sky over Johannesburg and has been hanging there ever since;

Johannesburg, South Africa -- IBM Commuter Pain Rating:

PARK Yoon Jung Dr. , Senior Researcher , Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

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a rough township east of Johannesburg

I will live in a small town near Johannesburg

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