Sandton
Glass-and-steel financial district built on former farmland and fox-hunting estates, now Africa's wealthiest square mile.
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This guide to Sandton in Johannesburg starts beneath a six-metre bronze Nelson Mandela, unveiled above a shopping mall's escalators in March 2004, and asks why his name ended up on the city's most expensive real estate. It goes back to the plaza's 1994 opening and the argument its 2004 renaming stirred among critics and the square's own manager. Further back still, a 1969 town planner described this district by its residents and its horses, and locals nicknamed themselves the mink and manure set.
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