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Associate General Accountant designation now available to Wits students and alumni

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Associate General Accountant designation now available to Wits students and alumni: Exciting new prospects for those who studied BCom Accounting at the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) after 2015. Saica has accredited this degree for admission into its mid-tier Associate General … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Pfizer vaccine will be made at South African firm, a first for Africa: This is the first time Pfizer’s vaccine will be produced in Africa, in a move to help address the continent’s desperate need for more doses amid a recent surge of cases. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Phase 1 digital service delivery platform launched in Johannesburg, Cape Town: The first phase of the free-to-use My Smart City service delivery platform, which allows citizens to report potholes, monitor power or water outages and communicate with local municipal officials, … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. South African firm to make Pfizer vaccine, first in Africa: South Africa is relying upon the Pfizer vaccine in its mass inoculation drive. It has purchased 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine which are arriving in weekly deliveries. The Johnson & Johnson … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. ActionSA ready to bring change to Gauteng’s metros – Michael Beaumont: ActionSA ready to bring change to Gauteng’s metros. 21 July 2021. ActionSA is proud to announce that Herman Mashaba, Abel Tau, and Letlhogonolo Moseki are ActionSA’s mayoral c … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? It takes one-minute longer to boil an egg in Johannesburg than it does in the coastal cities of Cape Town and Durban. This is because Joburg is 2000m above sea level, and the air is not as dense.

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The Geological Miracle of the Witwatersrand

The very existence of Johannesburg is a geological fluke. Unlike most major global cities, Johannesburg was not built near a river, a coast, or a natural harbor. It sits 1,753 meters above sea level on a rocky ridge called the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters). This ridge is the edge of the world’s largest known gold deposit, formed over 2 billion years ago when an ancient inland sea began to evaporate, leaving behind layers of gold-bearing conglomerate.

When George Harrison, an Australian prospector, stumbled upon an outcrop of gold on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, he triggered a “gold rush” that changed the course of African history. Within a decade, a dusty collection of tents and wagons transformed into a permanent city of brick and mortar. The “Main Reef” proved so vast that it eventually produced nearly 40% of all the gold ever mined in human history. This geological wealth dictated the city’s layout: the mining belt runs east-to-west across the city’s center, creating a physical divide between the wealthy northern suburbs and the industrial, working-class south. Today, while most mines within the city limits have closed due to the extreme depth and cost of extraction (some mines reached over 3.9 kilometers underground), the physical legacy remains in the form of “mine dumps”—massive yellow-white hills of crushed rock and sand that define the Joburg skyline.