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How EFF-DA marriage collapsed

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. How EFF-DA marriage collapsed: He said at the time that targeting Trollip did not mean the EFF would not target Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba and then Tshwane Mayor Solly … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. Stowaway who fell from plane and landed next to Exeter man 'may be South African', says latest …: One line of inquiry police in Nairobi are pursuing is that the stowaway could have hidden himself underneath the aircraft in Johannesburg, reports the … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. 15 injured in Gauteng road accidents in one weekend: Johannesburg – Fifteen people sustained various injuries in several road accidents in and around Westonaria, west of Johannesburg over the … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. Ramaphosa: Africa's Free Trade Agreement is a game changer for the continent: JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa says the establishment of the Africa's Free Trade Agreement will be a game changer for the continent … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. Fifteen people injured in various road accidents in Westonaria in Gauteng: Fifteen people sustained various injuries in several road accidents in and around Westonaria, west of Johannesburg over the weekend, paramedics … – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? The region surrounding Johannesburg was originally inhabited by San people. They were hunter-gatherers who used stone tools. There is evidence that they lived there up to ten centuries ago. By the 13th century, groups of Bantu-speaking people started moving southwards from central Africa and encroached on the indigenous San population.

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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.