6-401: Forest Town may refer to: Forest Town, Gauteng , South Africa Forest Town, Nottinghamshire , England Forest Town Hall , Belgium [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-569: The centre explores the history of genocide in the 20th century, focusing on case studies from the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The site was previously occupied by the Bernberg Fashion Museum , started by two Jewish sisters, Anna and Theresa Bernberg, to house their fashion collections. The sisters bequeathed the property to the City of Johannesburg on the condition that it be used as
18-402: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forest_Town&oldid=1010135287 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Forest Town, Gauteng Forest Town , as
24-514: The name implies, is a leafy suburb of Johannesburg , South Africa . It lies between the busy thoroughfares of Jan Smuts Avenue and Oxford Road , and is bordered to one side by the Johannesburg Zoo . The suburb was first surveyed on land called Sachsenwald, now known as Saxonwold , in 1908. The name of the suburb is derived from the Sachsenwald plantation. Forest Town is well known as
30-585: The scene of a high-profile police raid, the Forest Town raid , on a gay party in 1966, which triggered a moral panic and led to the Apartheid government passing the Immorality Amendment Bill of 1967. The Bill criminalised all sexual activity between men, as well as extending the legislation to include lesbians. Following South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, all discriminatory legislation
36-615: Was repealed. In 2005, the Forest Town home of Jacob Zuma , at that time deputy president of South Africa, was raided by the Scorpions in order to obtain documents for his corruption trial. Jacob Zuma, now a former president of South Africa , is currently under investigation for fraud, money laundering, racketeering, and a host of other criminal charges. In 2019, the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre opened in Forest Town,
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