![]() More specifically, the stone-walled ruins of Sotho–Tswana towns and villages are scattered around the parts of the former Transvaal province in which Johannesburg is situated. īy the mid-18th century, the broader region was largely settled by various Sotho–Tswana communities (one linguistic branch of Bantu-speakers), whose villages, towns, chiefdoms and kingdoms stretched from the Bechuanaland Protectorate (what is now Botswana) in the west, to present day Lesotho in the south, to the present day Pedi areas of the Limpopo Province. Stone-walled ruins of Sotho–Tswana towns and villages are scattered around the parts of the former Transvaal in which Johannesburg is situated. ![]() There is evidence that they lived there up to ten centuries ago. The region surrounding Johannesburg was originally inhabited by San hunter-gatherers who used stone tools. Main articles: History of Johannesburg and Timeline of Johannesburg The City Hall is also located on Rissik Street. Joubert had a park in the city named after him, and Rissik has his name for one of the main streets in the city where the historically important albeit dilapidated Rissik Street Post Office is located. ![]() Johannes Rissik and Johannes Joubert were members of a delegation sent to England to obtain mining rights for the area. Precise records for the choice of name were lost. Johannes Meyer, the first government official in the area is another possibility. Another was Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (better known as Paul Kruger), president of the South African Republic (ZAR) from 1883 to 1900. Among them is the principal clerk attached to the office of the surveyor-general Hendrik Dercksen, Christiaan Johannes Joubert, who was a member of the Volksraad and was the Republic's chief of mining. There were quite a number of people with the name "Johannes" who were involved in the early history of the city. Land area of the municipal city (1,645 km 2 or 635 sq mi) is large in comparison with those of other major cities, resulting in a moderate population density of 2,364 per square kilometre (6,120/sq mi).Ĭontroversy surrounds the origin of the name. In the same year, the population of metro Johannesburg's urban agglomeration was put at 8 000 000. In 2019, the population of the city of Johannesburg was 5 635 127, making it the most populous city in South Africa. The metropolis is an alpha global city, as listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. It would go on to be one of the host cities of the official tournament of the 2010 FIFA World Cup-and it hosted the final. These areas were, in previous decades, designated as non-white areas, in accordance with the segregationist policies of the time-known as apartheid. Another region, Lenasia, is predominantly populated by English-speaking Indo-South Africans (people of Indian and South Asian descent). Soweto, although eventually incorporated into Johannesburg, had been explicitly separated as a residential area for blacks only-no whites allowed-who were not permitted to live in other “white-designated” areas of Johannesburg. ![]() An acronym for "South-Western Townships", Soweto was organised initially as a collection of nondescript settlements on the outskirts of the city, populated mostly by African labourers working in the gold mining industry. A separate city from the late 1970s until 1994, Soweto is now part of Johannesburg proper. Due to the extremely large gold deposits found along the Witwatersrand, within ten years, the population had grown to over 100,000 inhabitants. The city was established in 1886, following the discovery of gold, on what had been a farm. The city is located within the mineral-rich Witwatersrand hills, the epicentre of the international-scale mineral, gold and (specifically) diamond trade. Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg. Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa. ![]() According to Demographia, the Johannesburg– Pretoria urban area (combined because of strong transport links that make commuting feasible) is the 26th-largest in the world in terms of population, with 14,167,000 inhabitants. Johannesburg ( / dʒ oʊ ˈ h æ n ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ/ joh- HAN-iss-burg, US also /- ˈ h ɑː n-/ - HAHN-, Afrikaans: Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or " The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa, classified as a megacity it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. ![]()
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