Rand Show
| Rand Show | |
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| Status | Active |
| Genre | Consumer exhibition show |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Venue | Expo Centre |
| Location(s) | Nasrec, Johannesburg |
| Coordinates | 26°14′40″S 27°58′55″E / 26.244582°S 27.981810°ECoordinates: 26°14′40″S 27°58′55″E / 26.244582°S 27.981810°E |
| Country | South Africa |
| Inaugurated | 13 March 1895 |
| Previous event | Friday 14 - Sunday 23 April 2017 |
| Next event | Friday 30 March - Sunday 8 April 2018 |
| Organised by | Dogan Exhibitions & Events (Pty) Ltd |
| Website | |
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The Rand Show, also called the Rand Easter Show is an annual show held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the largest consumer exhibition in Southern Africa. It has been an important event in the city for many years, attracting in excess of 400 000 visitors in 2007. It was also called the Grand Rand Show, when it was held a few weeks outside of Easter in the late 1980s.
The show was first held at the Old Wanderers cricket ground in November 1894 by the Witwatersrand Agricultural Society, a society that had formed in March of the same year. The second show was opened by Paul Kruger on 13 March 1895, at a venue called Milner Park, which is today the site of the University of the Witwatersrand's West Campus. It was held again in 1896 and reestablished subsequent to the end of the Anglo Boer War, in 1907. In 1936, the Rand Show was called the Empire Exhibition.
The eleven-day show was historically an agricultural exhibition for all South Africans where livestock, poultry, yearlings, farm products and equipment were shown and judged with prizes awarded in the form of Gold and Silver medals. In later years it also featured industrial and commercial exhibitions and would eventually attract foreign participants who would exhibit country pavilions. Other annual exhibitors included Military Tattoos, the South African Defence Force,the South African Police as well as show-jumping competitions. The 1960 show was the site of a failed assassination attempt on Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, by white farmer David Pratt[1].
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