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Rushwaya driver was found with 23 pieces of gold in SA, granted 100k bail

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Rushwaya driver was found with 23 pieces of gold in SA, granted 100k bail: A Zimbabwean gold smuggler Tashinga Nyasha Masinire who was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday with 23 prices of gold worth R11m (US$ 783 000 … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Pretoria warns of ‘vaccine apartheid’ if wealthy countries don’t share Covid jabs, as leaders mull patent waiver: South Africa’s president has warned that millions of people in poorer countries may die waiting to be inoculated against Covid-19 as rich countries hoard jabs, and reaffirmed his support for a global … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. WeThinkCode Durban calling on KZN applicants for its software programme: Selection bootcamps to recruit the maiden cohort for KwaZulu-Natal kicked off last week by WeThinkCode as it looks for more applicants. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. LIVESTREAM: Ramaphosa gives update on ANC NEC meeting outcomes: After a weekend of audio leaks and booting members out of the NEC meeting, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is due to give an update on the outcomes of that discussion. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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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.