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Gold Reef City
Gold Reef City has one foot in the past, providing a light-hearted and reasonably rip-roaring take on gold-rush Jo'burg. Ninety per cent Disneyland clone, this theme park only offers a token nod to historical authenticity, but provides ample means for filling a spare afternoon, especially if you have kids in tow.
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Johannesburg Zoo
The Johannesburg Zoo has a reasonable array of the fierce and the furry. It seems rather bizarre going to a zoo in Africa but it has a particularly interesting wild-dog enclosure and kids love it. There are also night tours (around R60 ) three times a week (no children); book through the zoo.
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SAB Centenary Centre
The SAB Centenary Centre delves into that other great South African pursuit: beer drinking. It unlocks the secrets of the country's brewing industries and there is a re-creation of a 1965 Soweto shebeen (unlicensed bar), which is all heavenly for appreciators of liquid amber.
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Turbine Hall
Much of the area around Mary Fitzgerald Sq was once taken up by a giant power station - builders keep running into the foundations of the colossal cooling towers. The huge Turbine Hall, next to the SAB World of Beer, is one of the city's more impressive buildings - a kind of Battersea Power Station for Jo'burg. Although derelict, the fantastic interior was used to launch the New Mini and there are several, tentative plans to transform the space.
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