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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Johannesburg, in the Gauteng province in South Africa This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Jeppestown in 1888 Commissioner Street, circa. 1899 Johannesburg CBD in 2005. Johannesburg is a large city in Gauteng Province of South Africa.It was established as a small village controlled by a Health Committee in 1886 with the discovery of an outcrop of a gold reef on the farm Langlaagte.
The name Gauteng is derived from Sotho-Tswana gauta, meaning 'gold'. [10] There was a thriving gold industry in the province following the 1886 discovery of gold in Johannesburg. [11] In Sesotho, Setswana and Sepedi the name Gauteng was used for Johannesburg and surrounding areas long before it was adopted in 1994 as the official name of the ...
The following is a timeline of the history of Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng province, South Africa This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
It also conducts teacher training and is the only accredited service-provider for in-service training in Holocaust education in the country. It has trained over 5,000 teachers. [6] The centre explores the history of genocide in the 20th century, focusing on case studies from the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide. [4]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. Largest city in South Africa This article is about the city in South Africa. For other uses, see Johannesburg (disambiguation). "eGoli" redirects here. For other uses, see Goli (disambiguation) and Egoli (disambiguation). City in Gauteng, South Africa Johannesburg Zulu: eGoli Khoekhoe ...
The first diamond discoveries between 1866 and 1867 were alluvial, on the southern banks of the Orange River. By 1869, diamonds were found at some distance from any stream or river, in hard rock called blue ground, later called kimberlite, after the mining town of Kimberley where the diamond diggings were concentrated. The diggings were located ...
Zimbabwe Jewish Community history web site A comprehensive overview of the history of the community, from early settlement in Northern and Southern Rhodesia to life today. How the guard has changed since Rhodes stormed the SA economy, "Without the Jewish people, the country would have taken many more years to evolve", The Sunday Times