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  2. Johannesburg - Wikipedia

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    Johannesburg (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ h æ n ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / joh-HAN-iss-burg, US also /-ˈ h ɑː n-/-⁠ HAHN-, Afrikaans: [jʊəˈɦanəsbœrχ]; Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli [ɛˈɡɔːli]) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

  3. History of Johannesburg - Wikipedia

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    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 population of the city grew rapidly, becoming a municipality in 1898. In 1928 it became a city making Johannesburg the ...

  4. Suburbs of Johannesburg - Wikipedia

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    The suburbs of Johannesburg are officially [citation needed] demarcated areas within the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa. As in other Commonwealth countries, the term suburb refers to a "neighbourhood", although in South Africa most (but not all) "suburbs" have legally recognised borders (see legal definition of ...

  5. Gauteng - Wikipedia

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    Gauteng is the wealthiest province in South Africa and is considered the financial hub of South Africa; the financial activity is mostly concentrated in Johannesburg. It also contains the administrative capital, Pretoria , and other large areas such as Midrand , Vanderbijlpark , Ekurhuleni and the affluent Sandton .

  6. Sandton - Wikipedia

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    Postal code (street) 2196. PO box. 2146. Sandton is a financial, commercial and residential area, located in the northern part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Formerly an independent municipality, Sandton's name came from the combination of two of its suburbs, Sandown and Bryanston.

  7. South Africa has failed its Black majority. Nelson Mandela’s ...

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    Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, seen in March 2022. Millions of South Africans still live in such informal settlements. - Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg/Getty Images

  8. Thirty years after end of apartheid, equality eludes South Africa

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    South Africa is one of the countries worst-hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with nearly 8 million people living with the virus, of whom about 5.7 million are receiving anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs ...

  9. South Africa's Steenhuisen wages mission to stop 'doomsday ...

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    By Joe Bavier. JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - On paper, South Africa's election this week should present a golden opportunity for the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) and its leader John Steenhuisen.

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