Westrand Places of Interest

 

Westrand Cresches/Pre-primary Schools:

Northcliff Hill Nursery School

Krabbel & Babbel Kleuterskool

Huggy Bear

Goofy Nursery School

Future Kids

Wonderland Nursery School

Edu Tots

Child wise

Baby Moses

Westrand Primary Schools:

Victory House Primary School

Discovery Primary School

Boskop Laerskool

General de la Rey Laerskool

Esperanza Primary School

Arthur Mathews Primary School

Laerskool Horison

Horizon View Primary School

Jozua Naud‚ Primary School

Roodepark Special School

Crown Christian School

Gustav Preller Primary School

Dr. Havenga

Westrand High School

Die Burger Secondary School

Crown Christian School

Roodepark Special School

Kings Christian School

Florida Park High

Westrand Christian Center

Hoërskool Florida

Westridge High

Krugersdorp High

Noordheuwel Hoërskool

Westrand Shopping Malls:

Nandan Shopping Center

Honey Junction

Ridge Terrace Shopping Center

The Ridge Shopping Center

The Terrazza Centre

Berg Shopping Centre

Beacon Isle Shopping Centre

Northcliff Piazza Shopping Centre

Westgate

Clearwater Mall

Westrand Police Stations:

Police SAPS – Fairland

Police SAPS – Florida

Police SAPS – Roodepoort

Police SAPS – Maraisburg

Police SAPS – Meadowlands

Police SAPS – Sophiatown

Police SAPS – Kagiso

Police SAPS – Lewisham

Police SAPS – New Canada

Westrand Entertainment:

FLORIDA LAKE
Catering for a wide variety of recreational tastes, Florida Lake has understandably become Roodepoort’s most popular park. There are masses of waterfowl on the lake and the adjacent bird sanctuary ensures that bird watching in this area is good.

KLOOFENDAL NATURE RESERVE
This reserve in the North-Western Highveld is home to 120 bird species and indigenous trees like proteas, orchids and other flora, and includes an attractive rocky koppie. A stone amphitheatre on the western edge is used for open-air events, and two circular walking trails take visitors past the old Confidence Reef gold-mine shaft (now restored as a national monument), a small dam, and various sites of geological and botanical interest.
This reserve is an area of approximately 50 hectares situated north of Horizon and west of Christiaan De Wet Road in Roodepoort.

WALTER SISULU BOTANICAL GARDENS
The Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens consists of around 300 hectares of landscaped and natural veld areas, planted with only indigenous trees, 600 species of indigenous flowering plants and shrubs. Over 230 species of birds have been recorded in the Garden as well as a number of reptiles and small mammals.

The Botanical Garden is a people place. It has a busy programme of events throughout the year. These include a spring plant fair, with thousands of indigenous plants on sale; picnic concerts throughout winter, featuring a variety of light classical and jazz performances on alternate Sunday afternoons as well as stargazing in early September and October.

ROODEPOORT ATHLETICS STADIUM
The Roodepoort athletics Stadium is situated in the beautiful Ruimsig area and can accommodate 16,000 spectators. The Stadium is equipped with the most modern athletics facilities including a polyurethane track and is suited for local, National and International events. (Sport)

ROODEPOORT COUNTRY CLUB
Nestling in the tranquil countryside of Ruimsig, west of Johannesburg, lies one of South Africa’s most challenging championship golf courses, Roodepoort Country Club. It is well known and recognised that condition-wise the course is consistently among the top 10 in South Africa.

ROODEPOORT MUSEUM
The Museum, from an original collection started in 1963, is housed in the Roodepoort Civic Centre building in the centre of the city.

PICNIC AREAS & HIKING TRAILS
Roodekrans Picnic areas in Wilde Amandel Road is a very popular spot with high trees, a lapa and braai facilities, a big playground for the children, a small stream running through it and lots of lawn.

THE CRADLE OF HUMANKIND – WORLD HERITAGE SITE
The site lies mainly in the Gauteng province with a small extension into the neighboring North-West province, and covers 47 000 hectares of land mostly privately owned. The Cradle of Humankind Site comprises a strip of a dozen dolomitic limestone caves containing the fossilised remains of ancient forms of animals, plants and most importantly, hominids.

STERKFONTEIN CAVES
These caves have one of the richest and most productive anthropological sites in the world. The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Isaac Edwin Stegmann Reserve about 10km from Krugersdorp. These caves were donated to the University of Witwatersrand by the Stegmann family.

THE LION PARK
The Lion Park is home to over 80 lions including the rare white lions and many other carnivores such as cheetah, wild dog, brown and spotted hyena and black backed jackal and a wide variety of antelope which roam freely in the antelope area. The Lion Park is situated in Gauteng Province near Lanseria Airport and Fourways within easy reach of Johannesburg and Pretoria. The park offers terrific up close views and other exciting interactions with a large variety of predators and large herbivores indigenous to Africa.

KRUGERSDORP GAME RESERVE
The habitat is mainly grassveld with small dams and reedbeds at the northern-most end. The vast areas of open grassland in the reserve provide the visitor the opportunity to observe many of the grassland species of Gauteng.

RHINO AND LION RESERVE
The Reserve is an ongoing project for the construction of a viable & self-sustaining, to benefit the community, phasing in facilities for arts and crafts manufacturing, amongst other planned projects. Picnic & braai areas, children’s recreation facilities, restaurant and accommodation on premises. 

KROMDRAAI
In 1938, the first specimen of robust ape-man was discovered at Kromdraai.

HARTBEESPOORT DAM
Surrounded by the majesty of the Magaliesberg mountain range, Hartbeespoortdam is very popular for weekend getaways or day trips. There are a lot of activities and fun filled family adventures like paragliding, hang-gliding, windsurfing and jet skiing.

NELSON MANDELA MUSEUM
The Nelson Mandela National Museum opened its doors on the 11th of February 2000 and is visited by thousands of South African and international tourists every year. It is considered one of South Africa’s most significant heritage institutions.