Johannesburg: City Of Gold

Rapid development of a fascinating city of Johannesburg is one of nine South African cities, which at the time held games of the World Cup. The news portal news.de presents some facets of the largest city in South Africa in addition to the soccer City Stadium. Fast, loud, dirty, hectic is Johannesburg. Jozi or Jo’burg, as locals call the city, emerged at the end of the last century, when gold was found in the region, and later was the world’s largest gold mine. Today, about eight million people live in greater Johannesburg. Due to the historical developments of the city is the range of culture and entertainment as varied and rich variation, such as its inhabitants. Travel to Johannesburg show one thing above all: the city is a magnet for creative people of all kinds. Here, residents say, and not in Cape Town was the real playground of arts.

In fact the country’s artistic heart beats here. In the Shebeens, the illegal pubs of again incurred district The South African jazz was Sophiatowns. Others including General Electric, offer their opinions as well. Nkhensani Hlekani has here fashion label stoned Cherrie explained, here is the home of the market Theatre, live here and act like IKE Mboneni Muila poet. And with the wits, one of the best universities of the continent is at home in Johannesburg. In the city, there is also the huge slum of Soweto.

On 16 June, in the middle of the World Cup fever, the country commemorated the year 1976. At that time, black schoolchildren on the street went to demonstrate against the imposition of Afrikaans, the language of the whites, as the teaching language.

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