So about 40 min from where I stay (Johannesburg, South Africa)

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So about 40 min from where I stay (Johannesburg, South Africa) there's an abandoned hospital - The Kempton Park/Kyalami hospital. It closed in 1996 without any reason whatsoever - literally everyone just left and the majority of the equipment was left as is(obviously most of the good stuff is gone by now except for patient files and some beds). What's even weirder is that Johannesburg has a shortage of hospitals really, so why close it (wtf?). I also heard stories about some doctor that lost 9 babies in his care in the last year of operation or some shit. Right, so it's been a popular spot for people to fuck around and go exploring - you bribe the four security guards and they let you in. Recently the shitty chainlink fence from the 90's was replaced by a fucking massive monster of a fence (the kind you can't cut) with brutal barbewire at the top. My friends and I drove out there last week and the guards weren't at the gate - we flashed my car's lights and shouted until two of them approached the fence. They were super pissed off and wouldn't let us in. We told them to name their price (since we were six people it could've been like R800 and that's a fuck ton for a bribe to trespass on some shitty abandoned building). They just said that the previous week something bad happened and things had changed. Then we pestered them some more until they threatened to phone the cops, so we decided to get high and go to an casino instead. So why would a hospital just close /x/? Apparently it's been under the radar for redevelopment for years - the government wants to demolish and rebuild the whole thing though.