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In the 1990s many of South Africa’s biggest businesses left the crime-ridden centre of Johannesburg and headed to the suburbs, leaving the central business district deserted. But a new sense of urban pride is emerging in the city’s downtown, where entrepreneur Jonathan Liebmann is wooing suburbanites with a clutch of ambitious arts, culture and hotel developments.
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