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Johannesburg in the news:

  1. South Africa’s future rests on a perpetually broken Eskom: Andre de Ruyter knew well the adversity he faced at South Africa’s power monopoly — a state-owned wreck hollowed out by corruption that struggles to keep the lights on, pay its bills and play ball … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Cops say teen confessed to murder of cousin, 14, whose body was found in pit toilet: A 19-year-old man has allegedly confessed to having been behind the murder of his 14-year-old Mpumalanga teenager whose decomposed body was found in a pit toilet. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. MTN transformation programme turns employees into store owners: Four MTN employees have become BBBEE owner-operators of 14 stores across Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal… Gaba Majola, one MTN’s four new store owner-operators. Initiated in 2019 as part of MTN’s … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Africa has defied the covid-19 nightmare scenarios. We shouldn’t be surprised.: After the novel coronavirus first appeared in Africa in late February, Ghana’s government decided it would take no chances. Ghanaian citizens were soon put under lockdown, and travel between major … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. #OrchidsandOnions: Making heroes possible: Game changer: Thumbs up for beast; Trump shoots himself in the foot… As someone who used to work for a Durban newspaper (albeit in its Johannesburg bureau), it always used to peeve me about how the … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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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.