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  2. Houghton Estate - Wikipedia

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    Houghton Estate, often simply called Houghton, is an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, north-east of the city centre. The area was designated for white residents as part of the Group Areas Act during the apartheid era and became known as one of the city's upper-class neighbourhoods.

  3. McGregor, South Africa - Wikipedia

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    McGregor is a small village in the mountains of the Western Cape, South Africa. It is roughly 150 km east of Cape Town. It is located in Ward 5 of the Langeberg Municipality. According to the Census 2001, this Ward has a population of 10,254 people (Stats SA, 2001). The village was established in 1861 and was originally called Lady Grey.

  4. History of South African wine - Wikipedia

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    The Cape wine estate of Constantia brought world wine to South Africa for their Muscat wines. In 1679 Simon van der Stel was appointed to succeed van Riebeeck as governor of the Cape Colony. Against Dutch East India Company regulations he orchestrated a deal for a land grant near Table Mountain for a 750-hectare (1,900-acre) estate – a grant ...

  5. Real economy - Wikipedia

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    The real economy concerns the production, purchase and flow of goods and services (like oil, bread and labour) within an economy.It is contrasted with the financial economy, which concerns the aspects of the economy that deal purely in transactions of money and other financial assets, which represent ownership or claims to ownership of real sector goods and services.

  6. Category:Real estate in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Real estate in Uganda (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Real estate in Africa" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. S.

  7. Gupta family - Wikipedia

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    The family migrated from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to South Africa in 1993 to establish Sahara Computers. [19] [20] The family was based at the Sahara Estate in Saxonwold, Johannesburg, a compound comprising at least four mansions, [6] until 2016 when they left South Africa for Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

  8. State-owned enterprises of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    In South Africa the Department of Public Enterprises is the shareholder representative of the South African Government [1] with oversight responsibility for state-owned enterprises in key sectors. Some companies are not directly controlled by the Department of Public Enterprises, but by various other departments.

  9. Blockbusting - Wikipedia

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    Real estate companies used deceitful tactics to make white homeowners think that their neighborhoods were being "invaded" by non-white residents, [6] which in turn would encourage them to quickly sell their houses at below-market prices. The companies then sold that property to blacks who were desperate to escape inner-city ghettos at higher ...