Johannesburg Features

Johannesburg Features

• Top Reasons to Go to Johannesburg
  

  Cradle of Humankind. Visit the Sterkfontein Caves and Maropeng Visitor Centre at this World Heritage Site, about an hour from Johannesburg, to... Read more

• Posing on a Gold Mine
  

  In 1952, Dolly Rathebe, a young black woman who was to become a jazz-singing legend, and a white German photographer, Jürgen Schadeberg... Read more

• Other Northern Suburbs Neighborhoods
  

  While Saxonwold, Parkview, and Parktown are where you'll find most of the sights in the northern suburbs, the nearby suburbs of Rosebank, Greenside... Read more

• Hector Pieterson and the Soweto Uprising
  

  On June 16, 1976, hundreds of schoolchildren in Soweto marched to protest the use of Afrikaans as the primary language of education in the overcrowded... Read more

• Victorian Parktown
  

  Parktown was once a gated community for the area's mining magnates, but most of its Victorian mansions fell victim to the wrecking ball long... Read more

• Kwaito
  

  Kwaito is a uniquely South African music genre, rooted in house, raga (a subgenre of reggae), hip-hop, and local rhythms. It emerged from the... Read more

• Johannesburg and the World Cup
  

  After years or preparation and planning, South Africa is ready to host the largest sporting event in the world, the World Cup, in 2010. The month-long... Read more

• Mining Diamonds
  

  Anyone can go to a jewelry store and bring home South African diamonds, but how many people can say they got their sparkler from an actual mine?... Read more