🇿🇦What happened to the Johannesburg Sun&Towers Hotel? - Complete Story -✔
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What happened to the Johannesburg Sun&Towers Hotel? - Complete Story -
The Johannesburg Sun Hotel is an abandoned twin-tower skyscraper hotel in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. Watch this fantastic video about this famous landmark.
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Spent a honeymoon there at The Towers in 1986. Sad to see what became of it.
It is heartbreaking to see this building stands vacant. I worked for the company who were responsible for implementing the computer system. Spent about 5 months training staff before the grand opening. It was an incredible hotel, what Southern Sun offered guests was innovative and extremely exciting. I was so proud to be so involved in this flagship. Like the Carlton i have some wonderful memories, of my stays and eating in the restaurants. So very sad...
OMG! I worked at this hotel back in 1990. I was telling a friend about Archi, the Greek who spoke many languages. An then, there he is at the end of the video! You put a smile on my face, thank you!
Thanks Sandro. Archie is still very active. He still works at the Michael Angelo in Sandton. I spoke to him and showed him this video. Thanks for your comment.
This is an awesome video. The CBD has so much potential and hopefully one day it'll be restored to it's former glory
Thanks for your comment. You right! Still has a lot of potential. Lots of projects are happening at the moment. I will speak about all of them when the time comes.
It is our duty!💯 I am prepared to pick up JHB from its knees. Trust me in a few years to come (1-3 from now) we will clean up the CBD. A new wave is coming. And I will be part of the movement. South Africa’s economy is reliant on JHB, and until the CBD is clean and thriving economically then South Africa’s economy will continue to suffer. We have to change the current situation. It will take unpopular action but it has to be done.💯
@@shisuiuchiha480 not going to happen under the ANC
@@charliecharlton9782 then vote ActionSA in the upcoming elections
This Hotel NEVER replaced the Majestic Carlton..... It was like a Wimpy Bar compared to The Carlton.....VERY good presentation besides the Carlton mention
You are doing such important work chronicling the history of Joburg in a video format. To last for years to come! Thank you for teaching me so much too.
Hi Alex. It is only a pleasure. I am learning a lot myself. I had a lot of questions that is why I started to do these videos to satisfy my curiosity. I am a firm believer that knowledge must be shared to create a better understanding of the world around us.
I feel depressed I hope one day these Iconic buildings can be repurposed and used again such infrastructure cant be left like this to waste!
Tshepo thank you so much for your comment. The only way to bring these buildings back to life is by informing everyone about their old glory.
Nope. Destroyed forever....
You have more chance winning the lottery without a ticket
Perhaps stop voting ANC & the rot will be restored simple really.
@@leonardolupini3484 anything destroyed can be restored....look at Europe after ww2 , Singapore, Dubai just because it's in Africa doesn't mean it cant be done Ethiopia and Egypt are building entirely new Cities. Kenya is building new cities anything destroyed can be repaired.
I used to work in standard bank across the street small street I was pregnant and used to go there in March April 1989.. every day lunch time to go eat in that restaurant.. There was a church running also inside the hotel.. Bring back all memories... I loved that hotel... Thank you for the video
Given the size of the complex it would have been interesting to see if they could have accommodated budget, tourist, and luxury hotel accommodations split up into different areas, with separate entrances to attract multiple consumer markets instead of relying on just one. I'm sure their simulations looked into this, but hopefully one day the Sun & Towers will be salvaged and repurposed in some form.
I wish I could reply you regarding this. I am still trying to find out how to explore the building.😂
Thank you so much for making this video, I often go for city walks in CBD when I have the chance and every time I would pass this building I would get so fascinated by it and although I’ve researched on it multiple times, your video was highly informative.From what I know the building is still in tact and is currently occupied by a security company at the moment which to me is a clear indication that this building definitely has a future!
Great comment. Thank you. May you tell me which is the security company on site? 😃
Good to see a fellow lover of the jhb cbd history Phindokuhle! How are things now there by the cbd? I moved out from there a few *months after covid hit, and also used to take walks around. I hope you keep safe.
@LivinginSAtv please keep adding more content, I'm loving your channel! Thank you so much for the history of these iconic places. So many of us rarely stop and appreciate what has been built, and the effort it took to make it.
Channels such as yours, make some of us love these cities even more and become change agents that want to see them thrive yet again. Please continue, you have our support. These will be invaluable to many more generations to come!
Fantastic video
For those of us who resided in Johannesburg and patronised the citys hotels and restaurants the Sun hotel was only 2nd rate to the prestigious and most luxurious Carlton Hotel
So everyone is saying what happened ? Well 1994 happened and Johannesburg quickly turned into a slum , yes welcome to South Africa !
Wow. That was so well-researched
My dad and brother worked late 80s to early 90s there is pics of them in this hotel. So sad to see the end of this hotel.
Then The cancerous ANC took over & now & now it's mothballed like most of Joburgs buildings.
And they ate the golden goose to swell their waistlines.
I worked in the black and white tower opposite. I will never forget the gun battles in 93 and 94 between anc and Inkatha. Watching armed men with ak47s running through the streets using the trees around the hotel as cover. Also the gun battle that resulted in the tower being raked with bullet holes
Since i was working as a Chef for the CARLTON,not much therefore that i know of the hotel...
Very interesting ! Did'nt know many of these facts before ! I remember those stretched vehicles at JanSmuts airport in the 80's picking up guests at the terminal (BMW or Mercedes Benz, can't remember the make anymore) not sure they belonged to the Sun Hotel anyway.
Johannesburg CBD pity, rich people leave it, too much crime.
haha,they even had a stock markets ticker machine that told u stock prices like a telegram,thought they had teletext in the 80's. Neverless a real luxury 80's joint that is up there with the Nakatomi towers as one of the 80's most luxurious, coolest highrises!
Judge bar used to have a guest singer in every week . None that was famous. Used to drink in there . Walking out of judges bar you went into the foyer/lounge where some half dead old dude used to play songs on the piano . Good old days
Thanks for sharing your memories.
LOL. "Population demographics".
Another way of saying mass illegal immigration from north of the border. Especially in Hillbrow.
Mass Illegal immigration started from the north started in early 2000s not 80s or 90s the economy was still good there. Apartheid ended mid 90s black people moved in the city then white people and their business es ran away to the suburbs
@@sidalumuzindlovu9338 You know little. By the 80s there were an estimated 1 million illegal immigrants from independent African states in Apartheid South Africa.
Several million flooded in 93/94 with the demise of Apartheid.
And I don't know in what dreamworld you believe that African economies were doing well in the 90s.
Hi David,
Do you know if anyone has done some urban exploring through these buildings in their current state?
Are they being used by homeless people?
I just find it surreal that they look so well preserved from the outside.
I remember when I was about 6 years old being taken here by my parents. We didn't go inside, only walked passed roughly just after the construction was complete but it wasn't open yet.
It's really a crying shame that it turned out to be a failure.
Hi. Thanks for your comment. That is a subject I will do a video on it. Building by building, but dont worry they are not hijacked. They are just "abandoned" and well locked. Only with special permissions you will go in. I dont see them as a failure I see them having huge potential for the inner city's present and future. Check my latest video to see what I mean. Old is gold.
@@FC3Concepts thanks for your comment. I want to do a part 2 on this building but I need to find a way to go inside to document the place properly. I do have photos of the inside from 3 months ago and it is correct looks like a time capsule and untouched almost inside. I will reveal everything when the time comes.
Not safe at all to travel into jhb cbd these days. Did you notice David uses Google maps for his images. Last year I ended up near Fox street and drove past Carlton. Its sad. I was happy to get to Rosebank without my windows being smashed and I being robbed. Jhb cbd looks like something out of a deteriorated unkept true African city.
@@AndriesduPlessis Even way back when I was living in SA and that's around 15 years ago, it wasn't safe. You could still drive through there though. I guess these days it resembles something like the Cape Flats?
Future Sandton Sun Towers? Hope not. Nice video and please share the current state of these buildings...
Still the same status as per the video, nothing changed as far as I know.
Current status of the building is depressing.
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It appears that the underground parking is still in use, looking at the Google images in the video and on my own, with an entrance in Pritchard Street and an exit in Von Weiligh. Is this correct?
Yes it works as an underground parking, but the rest is not accessible. They closed off everything.
Can someone explain to me the reason the big glass skyscraper thing has such a small base
How does it still stay up while mothballed and ready to be used?
Hey man can you do a video for hijacked buildings i want to buy them and revamp and turn them to apartments
Hi Katlego. Thanks for your comment. There 84 buildings in joburg CBD, who need to be refurbished or revamped, please be more specific.
It's probably many more. Johannesburg is a ruined city. Never invest there.
The anc government destroyed our beautiful country😭😭😭
The murder inside that caused it to close was not so 6 star
what murder and when?
Damn you ANC for destroying this once beautiful city that could of been today The Most Beautiful City in ALL OF Africa
Shut up at least people have houses im sure you are an apartheid sympathizer
Cool Story Bru is stealing all your content 😂😂😂
OMG his accent is strange - hard to listen to
People would probably think the same thing about you if you tried to speak Portuguese.
@@endeavourist5287 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am English speaking and I understand him perfectly well . But I do have a problem understanding Afrikaans speaking people speaking English.