It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is ...

sparking the Witwatersrand gold rush. The miners’ village, known as Ferreira’s Camp, boomed, and within just 10 years became the biggest town in South Africa: Johannesburg was born.

Johannesburg stands out as a raw ... transforming from a city founded on the fortunes of South Africa’s gold rush, through years of division and decay, to emerge as a metropolis that thrums ...

While the usual Johannesburg tourist spots like the Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City ... Not only does this activity give you a rush of adrenaline, but the location itself, with its bold urban ...

En route between Johannesburg and Kruger National Park ... Step back in time to the height of the Gold Rush in Pilgrim’s Rest, where characterful 19th-century buildings are preserved to this ...

Johannesburg earned its nickname as the “City of Gold” back in the 1880s, when the discovery of gold under the Witwatersrand hills suddenly put it on the map. The subsequent gold rush ...