| City Parks rewards industrious workers | By Lucille Davie
20 November 2003
CITY PARKS workers "who have gone the extra mile" were acknowledged around the city on Wednesday in the MD´s Achievers´ Tour.
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| Joburg´s nature reserves now have game | By Lucille Davie
21 November 2003
JOHANNESBURG´S four nature reserves will soon all contain game. Rietfontein already has game, while Klipriviersberg was stocked with game in September, and two more will have wildlife within six months.
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| Put your feet up in a Joburg park | By Lucky Sindane
16 January 2004
CITY PARKS spends R250 000 a year buying benches for the many parks around the city as part of an ongoing campaign to make Johannesburg´s open spaces people-friendly.
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| Celebrating Jozi´s green heritage | By Lucky Sindane
27 January 2004
IT has been 100 years since Johannesburg´s parks became the concern of the city´s administration. Now, as part of its centenary celebrations, City Parks intends to market their tourism sites and entice more people outdoors.
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| The social uses of parks in the city | By Thomas Thale
27 June 2003
SINCE it was upgraded and reopened to the public last year, Thokoza Park in Rockville, Soweto, has been bustling with activity, attracting hordes of revellers to its lush green grounds.
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| Mystery of unmarked graves in makeshift cemeteries | By Sheree Russouw
16 January 2003
THE identities of 140 people buried in two illegal cemeteries in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, are still a mystery, more than a year after their unmarked graves were discovered on state-owned, unused land.
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| Protection of the Glen Austin Bullfrog Pan in Midrand | JOHANNESBURG CITY PARKS and a residents group in Midrand, University of Pretoria, Gauteng Conservation and other interest groups/organisations took hands in facilitating some activities in order to protect the future of the vulnerable Glen Austin bullfrog pan in Midrand. | |
| Florida Lake to host dragon boat festival | By Chandrea Gerber
6 May 2004
THE Gauteng Dragon Boat Association (GDBA), and the Chinese communities of South Africa are all set to host Gauteng´s sixth annual dragon boat festival over the weekend of 15 May and 16 May at Florida Lake in Roodepoort.
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| There will be dragons in Wemmer Pan Lake | By Tammy O´Reilly
28 October 2003
FORTY colourful dragon boats will take to the waters of Wemmer Pan Lake, south of Johannesburg, on Sunday 2 November for the fifth Annual Dragon Boat Race. | |
| City agency looks into revival of parks | By Tammy O´Reilly
16 September 2003
EIGHT parks in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg have been identified for a much-needed facelift, with plans afoot to try to repair the famous musical fountains at Wemmer Pan.
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