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Glenanda

Glenanda is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

The place

Glenanda is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F. Glenanda borders the suburbs of Glenvista, Suideroord and Winchester Hills. Glenanda has its own public library, service station and local shopping centre. Glenanda Primary School was established there in 1976 and services Glenanda as well as the surrounding areas. Glenanda is in close proximity to The Glen Shopping Centre with an average travelling time of five minutes.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Glenanda

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Turffontein Racecourse

    Turffontein Racecourse is a race track in South Africa for Thoroughbred horse racing founded in 1887 at Turffontein, Gauteng by the Johannesburg Turf Club. The facility has both an inner and outer grass track.

    3.9 km · racecourse in South Africa · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Glenanda

Airports
O.R. Tambo (JNB), 25 km · Lanseria (HLA), 39 km · Sir Seretse Khama (GBE), 286 km
  • Polokwane → Glenanda
    300 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · R300–400
  • Mbombela → Glenanda
    306 km · quickest by road, 4h 56m · R315–420
  • Bloemfontein → Glenanda
    364 km · quickest by road, 5h 20m · R350–465
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Glenanda

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Glenanda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} The airport is mainly for smaller charter, cargo and classic airline flights; it is in fact busier than Johannesburg International and sees more air traffic.
  • Get aroundGenerally, it is a bad idea to make use of minibus taxis unless accompanied by locals.
  • Get aroundTraffic can be aggressive, and minibus taxis in particular often defy the rules of the road.
  • Get aroundPublic transport in Johannesburg is provided by city buses and informal minibus services.
  • Get aroundForeigners are advised to use only normal sedan taxis (metered or fixed-price taxes that transport only you and your travel partners), as minibus taxis have a reputation for being rather unsafe.

From Wikivoyage: Johannesburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    SossusvleiNA

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

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If you know how people move in Glenanda – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Glenanda

Glenanda is 8 km from Johannesburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.