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The Ponte City Apartments is 173 m (567.6 ft) high, which makes it the tallest residential skyscraper in South Africa. The skyscraper was built in 1975 in the once cosmopolitan Hillbrow neighborhood of Johannesburg.
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Hillbrow had been considered a fancy place until the criminal activity gradually turned the area into a gangland. By the end of the 90s many gangs moved into the Ponte City, devastating it and leaving a 5 stories high pile of debris in the “core.”
See the images below to get a feel for just how disgusting the waste is…
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Presently the building belongs to a private company and several projects of the renovation are slow to implement because of the lack of money. That is why Ponte City remains a giant symbol of the urban decay.
