Joburg residents gathered at Museum Africa with the Joburg Heritage Foundation in celebration of Johannesburg's 130 year birthday on 4 October.
|||Johannesburg - Joburg residents gathered at Museum Africa with the Joburg Heritage Foundation in celebration of Johannesburg's 130 year birthday on 4 October 2016.
Mayor Herman Mashaba addressed the attendees at the launch event, and was given a special tour of the museum together with the public as he took pictures with the community members.
“With some of the children arriving on a genuine London Bus dating back to 1952 and kindly provided by the James Hall Transport Museum, the morning was full of distinctively Johannesburg fun,” said Flo Bird of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation. “Apart from the cake and candles, there were 'mining games' like pebble sorting, sifting of mine sand, and singing of 'Shosholoza.”
The Mayor was given a splendid gold sash to make up for not having a chain, said Bird. We know these are but the trappings of power, but people want to be able to identify him easily and we don't want to ask him to wear a silly hat.
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