LAKESIDE MALL
Management in Benoni

Vibrant and lively, Lakeside Mall Benoni attracts today's shopper from all walks of life with its convenient shopping, superb range of merchandise and competitive prices. A quality regional shopping centre, Lakeside Mall is well loved for its strong roots in the community in which it is located and its celebration of all things South African. And, over 130 tenants means a wide range of shopping and leisure options. Together with the Lakeside Mall's fun and stylish image it offers the best of everything to the whole family. A central feature of Lakeside Mall is the 160 metre-long riverboat, which has been constructed as part of the main centre. These buildings are based on real structures in New Orleans, right down to the colour of the paint. They give the feeling that you are in the middle of a real town square. The mall areas are linked via atria and light-wells, which give a sense of space and light, and create stunning views across the lake, so that the atmosphere in the complex is one of water and open-air spaces. The attractive city of Benoni is situated beside the N12 Highway. This pleasant environment is home to many parks, lakes, nature sanctuaries and first class sporting facilities. The commercial centre of Benoni is renowned for its Lakeside Mall, Charlize Theron, the Bunny Park and the Benoni Lane of Fame. Johan Rissik who was the surveyor-general in the days of Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic, had great difficulty in surveying a very irregularly-shaped piece of land. During the 1910 elections and the mining strikes of the early 1900s, the wild behaviour of Benonians gave the town such a bad reputation that people seriously suggested its name be changed! Fabulous wealth was contained in the reefs around the farm Benoni, and by the early 1900s it was surrounded by seven of the richest gold mines in the world. The gold-bearing Witwatersrand rocks, consisting of quartzites, conglomerates and shales, show at the surface largely along the bottom of the valley in which our line of lakes lies, and it was here that our first mines were worked at very shallow levels along inclined shafts. This mine was unique in the area, in that it also produced diamonds.