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After that sobering experience, you can enjoy the lighter side of the new South Africa by lodging at the Grace Hotel (www .grace.co.za/the_grace) in the leafy Johannesburg suburb of Rosebank. The hotel, built in 1997, captures the romance of Africa's colonial past, with its country-style bedrooms and a menu featuring traditional favorites such as ostrich. For an edgier feel, you can head to the ultramodern Melrose Arch Hotel www.africanpridehotels.com...
...That's a sentiment shared by a retired power company worker, Maxwell Kerr, also a Rosebank Crescent resident in 1988. "We have problems here we need to solve for the future-drugs, keeping the young employed," he says. Lockerbie's motto happens to be "Forward," and that is where the town wants...
...another plaque stands in Rosebank Crescent, where part of the plane's fuselage landed along with more than 60 bodies. Tommy Rae, a decorator who lives here, will never forget the noise of the explosion that blew in his front door. "When we got out, we could see smoke and power lines lying across the road. I went to the car and put the lights on. There were bodies everywhere, some three deep, and an American passport and food from the plane all over our front garden," he says. Forever in his memory will be "the lass lying...
...plans to clean up Johannesburg and revive its commercial heart, the country's northern gateway remains economically distressed. The Carlton, the city's main hotel, closed down last year. To avoid the dangers of the former gold-mining center, many visitors begin their stay instead in the wealthy new Rosebank-Sandton area to the north, which offers luxury hotels, office blocks and shopping malls. From there they travel to the eastern game parks of Mpumalanga (formerly the eastern Transvaal), the casino resort of Sun City or the Indian Ocean beaches of Durban, which is host to the country's largest...
Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island...