The largest city in sub-Saharan Africa, Johannesburg is a modern, bustling metropolis that powers the country's economy. It is the center of a vast urban industrial complex that covers most of the province of Gauteng. Home to more than 6 million people, it sprawls across the featureless plains of …
1,402km (869 miles) NE of Cape Town, 58km (36 miles) S ofo Pretoria The bushveld plains that remained unchanged for millions of years were irrevocably transformed when a prospector named George Harrison stumbled onto the richest gold reef in the world in 1886. Within 3 years, a nondescript part of …