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About megaplex.co.za

"The Most Helpful Website in the Universe for Shopping in Sandton"

When our computer hardware business went under as a result of cheque fraud in which we lost two new laptops, we started letting rooms so that the house could pay its way.  Rick started this website to advertise those rooms.

We then wanted somewhere to put useful information about local amenities for tenants, and the web site was the obvious place.  We listed the shops in the local shopping centre (which had no web page of its own, and still doesn't): That page rapidly became the most popular one on the site.  So we added the centre on the other side.  Since then we have kept adding pages for other shopping centres until we have listings for pretty much every mall in Sandton (except for that one at the corner of Rivonia Road and Sandton Drive that I can never remember the name of).

In setting up the site we have tried to be as helpful as possible, giving you the contact details and description of every shop that will give them to us.  This information is often more detailed than that on a mall's own site –if it has one at all!  Consequently we rank well on Google.

The site still runs largely as a public service: None of the shopping centres to which we send hundreds of new shoppers every month has been willing to pay a cent towards the work we do, even as some of them spend thousands on glitzy websites with moving pictures and maybe –if you are lucky– the names of the shops and their phone numbers!  We do make a small income from advertising on this site and in the monthly e-newsletter, but it continues to be largely a labour of love towards increasing the prosperity of our area.  If, however, you would like to help by paying for some adverts, please go here.

About Megaplex cc.

Furnished Rooms and a furnished apartment in a family home with all amenities in Morningside, next to Morningside Manor, Sandton

Your host and hostess are a married couple, Rick Raubenheimer and Judith Taylor, who live on the property at 126 Kelvin Drive, and take a personal interest in their guests.  Below you can read more about the house, the property, and the surroundings.

Other Pages:  Home ~ All rooms (some not available at present)  ~ Apartment details and Photo Gallery ~ Best Way to eat a Mango ~ PAIA Section 51 Manual

Local Facilities

Ideal Student Accommodation: We are conveniently situated for students of the International Hotel School, one block to the east at 140 Kelvin Drive (but apparently moving to Sunninghill on 15 Dec 2014).  The Hotel School is a 5- to 10-minute walk away along a main road with a paved sidewalk and street lights.  Students at Varsity College in Waterstone Drive are only about 3.1 km away by minibus taxi or occasional bus along Rivonia Road (cost about R7 per trip) plus a 1.5 km walk (Map from Megaplex to Varsity College).  The Health and Fitness Academy at Planet Fitness in Rivonia is about 3 km away –a quick jog if you are fit (which you must be to study there!), or by minibus taxi along Rivonia Road.

We are within a short walk of two shopping centres, Morning Glen and "90º on Rivonia" (formerly called the Pavilion), both on Kelvin Drive.  Facilities include a Post Office, Postnet, Pick 'n Pay, Spar, stationers, Nando's, Steers, Wimpy, various other restaurants and take-aways, several hairdressers, two bottle stores, two pharmacies, Medical Rooms (Manor Medical Centre), optician, Video Hire, ATMs (ABSA, FNB, Nedbank, and Standard), hardware shop, Zenex and BP Garages, and tyre repair/replacement.  The "Mr Delivery" service operates in the area, and many take-away food places do their own deliveries as well..

About a 15-minute walk (or a 5-minute drive) away is The The Wedge, Morningside shopping centre on Rivonia Road, containing several other restaurants, a Woolworths food store, pharmacy/dispensary, Food Lovers' Market, a Woolworths Food, Nedbank, Clicks, etc.

Slightly further, but still in walking distance, is central Rivonia with its wide array of restaurants (read Restaurant Reviews here), supermarkets, shops, banks, and clubs.

The nearest cinemas are at Sandton City, a 15-minute drive away in central Sandton (half an hour in rush hour).

For fitness fanatics, the Morningside Country Club is close by, as is a private gym on Rivonia Road corner North.  The Morningside Virgin Active Club is about 3 km south on Rivonia Road corner Centre Rd.

We do regular walks almost every Sunday along the nearby Sandspruit Hiking Trail, and have keys to the gates both for access downstream, and upstream through Ernest Ullmann Park.  The Ernest Ullmann Park Recreation Centre once had a tea garden on Sundays and a monthly craft market.  The trail itself is good for walks of up to four hours in peaceful and natural surroundings with running water, spectacular rock formations, lawns, indigenous vegetation, willows, wattles, kakiebos and black-jacks.  There are geese, ducks, plover, guinea fowl, various ibis, other birds, and occasionally a rare sighting such as a leguan.  Dogs are allowed under control or on leads.  The Braamfontein Spruit Hiking Trail, where walks of a whole day are possible, is in the next valley.

For our tenants, it helps if you like dogs and cats: We have one cat and two adult Labradors. We sometimes have a puppy we are puppy-training for the SA Guide Dogs Association for the Blind.  We breed Labrador pups for the Guide Dogs Association, who would welcome a donation from you!

Advert: Accommodation Available Immediately: Owl Box, Bat Box, and Barbet Logs.

Comfortable Southwest-facing gravel-lined Owl Box suitable for a pair of spotted eagle-owls.  Tremendous view!  Self-catering, rent negotiable.  Installed October 2006, Cypress tree blew down on 4 December 2007, re-installed 7 February 2008 (<< Pictures on left).  Apply using contact details below, or view at 126 Kelvin Drive (that's the slate-roofed house on Kelvin Drive four houses west of the Sandspruit).

North-facing Bat Box suitable for an extended family of small bats.  Three rooms, unfurnished.  Self-catering: Plenty of insects on hand as we do not use pesticides.  Rent negotiable.  Available now.  Apply using contact details below, or view under the eaves on the north side of 126 Kelvin Drive.  Picture on right >>.

Great news if you are a Barbet: We have three nesting logs.  Apply now to avoid disappointment!  The ability to get on with other birds, such as sparrows, weavers, doves, African hoopoos, redbilled woodhoopoos, crested barbets, red-collared barbets, hadeda ibis and, we hope one day, spotted eagle-owls, will be a recommendation.

Note: If you would like an owl box, bat box, or nesting log, e-mail EcoSolutions or phone Jonathan or Stephanie at 072-365-9777.