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Johannesburg

February 11, 2023

This article is about the city in South Africa. For other uses, see Johannesburg (disambiguation).
"eGoli" redirects here. For other uses, see Goli (disambiguation) and Egoli (disambiguation).

Johannesburg (/dʒoʊˈhænɪsbɜːrɡ/ joh-HAN-iss-burg, US also /-ˈhɑːn-/ -⁠HAHN-, Afrikaans: [juəˈɦanəsbœrχ]; Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli [ɛˈɡɔːli]), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold",[11][12] is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity,[13] and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.[14] 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.[15] It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa.[16] Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa.[17] Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg. The city is located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade.

Johannesburg
eGoli  (Zulu)
City
City of Johannesburg
Panoramic view of Johannesburg during sunset
Johannesburg CBD with Nelson Mandela Bridge
Ponte City and Hillbrow Tower at night
FNB Stadium
Johannesburg Art Gallery
University of the Witwatersrand
Brixton Tower
Flag
Coat of arms
Nickname(s): 
Jo'burg; Jozi; Muḓi Mulila Ngoma (Venda version), Joni (Tsonga version); Jobhag (Bhojpuri version);[1] Egoli ("Place of Gold");[2] Gauteng ("Place of Gold")
Motto: 
"Unity in development"[3]
OpenStreetMap
Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Coordinates: 26°12′16″S 28°2′44″E / 26.20444°S 28.04556°E / -26.20444; 28.04556
Country South Africa
ProvinceGauteng
MunicipalityCity of Johannesburg
Established1886[4]
Government
 • TypeMetropolitan municipality
 • MayorThapelo Amad[5] (Al Jama-ah)
Area
[6]
 • City164,498 km2 (63,513 sq mi)
 • Urban
[7]
3,357 km2 (1,296 sq mi)
Elevation
1,753 m (5,751 ft)
Population
 (2019)[8]
 • City5 635 127
 • Urban
[7]
8,000,000
 • Urban density2,400/km2 (6,200/sq mi)
 • Metro
10,500,000
Racial makeup (2019)
[8]
 • Black African76,4%
 • White13,7%
 • Coloured5,3%
 • Indian/Asian4,9%
 • Other0,8%
First languages (2011)
[6]
 • Zulu23,41%
 • English20,10%
 • Xhosa18,10%
 • Sesotho9,61%
 • Setswana7,68%
 • Afrikaans7,28%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
2001
PO box
2000
Area code010 and 011
HDI 0.75 High (2012)[9]
GDPUS$76 billion (2014)[10]
GDP per capita (PPP)US$16 370 (2014)[10]
Websitewww.joburg.org.za

The city was established in 1886 following the discovery of gold on what had been a farm. Due to the extremely large gold deposit found along the Witwatersrand,[18] within ten years, the population had grown to 100,000 inhabitants. A separate city from the late 1970s until 1994, Soweto is now part of Johannesburg. Originally an acronym for "South-Western Townships", Soweto originated as a collection of settlements on the outskirts of Johannesburg, populated mostly by native African workers from the gold mining industry. Soweto, although eventually incorporated into Johannesburg, had been separated as a residential area for blacks only (no whites allowed), who were not permitted to live in other White designated suburbs of Johannesburg. Lenasia is predominantly populated by English-speaking South Africans of Indian descent. These areas were designated as non-white areas in accordance with the segregationist policies of the South African government known as apartheid. It was one of the host cities of the official tournament of the 2010 FIFA World Cup—and it hosted the final.

The metropolis is an alpha global city as listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. In 2019, the population of the city of Johannesburg was 5 635 127, making it the most populous city in South Africa.[8] In the same year, the population of Johannesburg's urban agglomeration was put at 8 000 000.[8] Land area of the municipal city (1,645 km2 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).

Etymology

Controversy surrounds the origin of the name. There were quite a number of people with the name "Johannes" who were involved in the early history of the city. 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. Another was Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (better known as Paul Kruger), president of the South African Republic (ZAR) from 1883 to 1900. Johannes Meyer, the first government official in the area is another possibility.[19]

Precise records for the choice of name were lost. Johannes Rissik and Johannes Joubert were members of a delegation sent to England to obtain mining rights for the area. 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.[20][21] The City Hall is also located on Rissik Street.

History

Main articles: History of Johannesburg and Timeline of Johannesburg

The region surrounding Johannesburg was originally inhabited by San hunter-gatherers who used stone tools. There is evidence that they lived there up to ten centuries ago.[22] Stone-walled ruins of Sotho–Tswana towns and villages are scattered around the parts of the former Transvaal in which Johannesburg is situated.[23]

By 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,[24] to present day Lesotho in the south,[25] to the present day Pedi areas of the Limpopo Province. 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.

Many Sotho–Tswana towns and villages in the areas around Johannesburg were destroyed and their people driven away during the wars emanating from Zululand during the late 18th and early 19th centuries (the mfecane or difaqane wars),[citation needed] and as a result, an offshoot of the Zulu kingdom, the Ndebele (often referred to as the Matabele, the name given them by the local Sotho–Tswana), set up a kingdom to the northwest of Johannesburg around modern-day Rustenburg.

Gold rush and naming of the city

Main article: Witwatersrand Gold Rush
 
The Langlaagte farm near Paarlshoop, on the Witwatersrand – site of the first discovery of gold in 1886.
 
Ferreirasdorp gold mine in 1886, the oldest part of Johannesburg[26][27] and where the first gold diggers initially settled.[28]

The main Witwatersrand gold reef was discovered in June 1884 on the farm Vogelstruisfontein by Jan Gerritse Bantjes, son of Jan Bantjes, this triggered the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the founding of Johannesburg in 1886. The discovery of gold rapidly attracted people to the area, making necessary a name and governmental organisation for the area. Jan, Johan and Johannes were common male names among the Dutch of that time; two men involved in surveying the area for the best location of the city, Christian Johannes Joubert and Johann Rissik, are considered the source of the name by some. Johannes Meyer, the first government official in the area is another possibility. Precise records for the choice of name were lost.[29] Within ten years, the city of Johannesburg included 100,000 people.[30]

In September 1884, the Struben brothers discovered the Confidence Reef on the farm Wilgespruit near present-day Roodepoort, which further boosted excitement over gold prospects.[31]: 254  The first gold to be crushed on the Witwatersrand was the gold-bearing rock from the Bantjes mine crushed using the Struben brothers stamp machine. News of the discovery soon reached Kimberley and directors Cecil Rhodes and Sir Joseph Robinson rode up to investigate the rumours for themselves. They were guided to the Bantjes camp with its tents strung out over several kilometres and stayed with Bantjes for two nights.[citation needed]

In 1884, they purchased the first pure refined gold from Bantjes for £3,000. Incidentally, Bantjes had from 1881 been operating the Kromdraai Gold Mine in the Cradle of Humankind together with his partner Johannes Stephanus Minnaar where they first discovered gold in 1881, and which also offered another kind of discovery—the early ancestors of all mankind.[citation needed] Some report Australian George Harrison as the first to make a claim for gold in the area that became Johannesburg, as he found gold on a farm in July 1886. He did not remain in the area.[32]

Gold was earlier discovered some 400 kilometres (249 miles) to the east of present-day Johannesburg in Barberton. Gold prospectors soon discovered the richer gold reefs of the Witwatersrand offered by Bantjes. The original miners' camp, under the informal leadership of Col Ignatius Ferreira, was located in the Fordsburg dip, possibly because water was available there, and because of the site's proximity to the diggings. Following the establishment of Johannesburg, the area was taken over by the Transvaal government who had it surveyed and named it Ferreira's Township, today the suburb of Ferreirasdorp. The first settlement at Ferreira's Camp was established as a tented camp and which soon reached a population of 3,000 by 1887.[30] The government took over the camp, surveyed it and named it Ferreira's Township.[33] By 1896, Johannesburg was established as a city of over 100,000 inhabitants, one of the fastest growth cities ever.[30]

Mines near Johannesburg are among the deepest in the world, with some as deep as 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).[34]

Rapid growth, Jameson Raid and the Second Boer War

 
Johannesburg in 1889

Like many late 19th-century mining towns, Johannesburg was a rough and disorganised place, populated by white miners from all continents, African tribesmen were recruited to perform unskilled mine work, African women beer brewers cooked for and sold beer to the black migrant workers, a very large number of European prostitutes, gangsters, impoverished Afrikaners, tradesmen, and the "AmaWasha", Zulu men who surprisingly dominated laundry work.[35] As the value of control of the land increased, tensions developed between the Boer–dominated Transvaal government in Pretoria and the British, culminating in the Jameson Raid that ended in fiasco at Doornkop in January 1896. The Second Boer War (1899–1902) saw British forces under Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, occupy the city on 30 May 1900 after a series of battles to the south-west of its then-limits, near present-day Krugersdorp.[citation needed]

Fighting took place at the Gatsrand Pass (near Zakariyya Park) on 27 May, north of Vanwyksrust—today's Nancefield, Eldorado Park and Naturena—the next day, culminating in a mass infantry attack on what is now the waterworks ridge in Chiawelo and Senaoane on 29 May.[36][37]

During the Boer war, many African mineworkers left Johannesburg creating a labour shortage, which the mines ameliorated by bringing in labourers from China, especially southern China. After the war, they were replaced by black workers, but many Chinese stayed on, creating Johannesburg's Chinese community, which during the apartheid era, was not legally classified as "Asian", but as "Coloured". The population in 1904 was 155,642, of whom 83,363 were whites.[38]

Post-Union history

 
Pritchard Street c. 1910

In 1917, Johannesburg became the headquarters of the Anglo-American Corporation founded by Ernest Oppenheimer which ultimately became one of the world's largest corporations, dominating both gold-mining and diamond-mining in South Africa. Major building developments took place in the 1930s, after South Africa went off the gold standard.[citation needed] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the apartheid government constructed the massive agglomeration of townships that became known as Soweto. New freeways encouraged massive suburban sprawl to the north of the city.[citation needed] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, tower blocks (including the Carlton Centre and the Southern Life Centre) filled the skyline of the central business district.

Under the system of apartheid (Afrikaans for "apartness", or "separate development" although the system was founded by the British), a comprehensive system of racial separation was imposed upon South Africa starting in 1948. For its growth, the economy of Johannesburg depended upon hundreds of thousands of skilled white workers imported from Europe and semi- and un-skilled black workers imported from other parts of Southern Africa. Though they worked together they were forced by the government to live separately. Work was considered to be an exception to apartheid in order to keep Johannesburg functioning as South Africa's economic capital.[39]

 
Stuttafords department stores in Johannesburg in 1957

In the 1950s, the government began a policy of building townships for black families (prior to this unskilled workers were asked to work on "single status" in male-only hostels at the mines and had to commute to see their families in whatever province they originated) outside of Johannesburg to provide workers for Johannesburg.[39] Soweto, a township founded for black workers coming to work in the gold mines of Johannesburg, was intended to house 50,000 people, but soon was the home of ten times that number as thousands of unemployed rural blacks came to Johannesburg for employment and an income to send back to their villages.[40] It was estimated that in 1989, the population of Soweto was equal to that of Johannesburg, if not greater.[40]

In March 1960, Johannesburg witnessed widespread demonstrations against apartheid in response to the Sharpeville massacre.[41] On 11 July 1963, the South African Police raided a house in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia where nine members of the banned African National Congress (ANC) were arrested on charges of planning sabotage. Their arrest led to the famous Rivonia Trial.[40] The nine arrested included one Indo-South African, one coloured, two whites and five blacks, one of whom was the future president Nelson Mandela.[42] At their trial, the accused freely admitted that they were guilty of what they were charged with, namely of planning to blow up the hydro-electric system of Johannesburg to shut down the gold mines, but Mandela argued to the court that the ANC had tried non-violent resistance to apartheid and failed, leaving him with no other choice.[42] The trial made Mandela into a national figure and a symbol of resistance to apartheid.[42]

 
Street scene in Johannesburg in 1970

On 16 June 1976, demonstrations broke out in Soweto over a government decree that black school-children be educated in Afrikaans instead of English, and after the police fired on the demonstrations, rioting against apartheid began in Soweto and spread into the greater Johannesburg area.[43] About 575 people, the majority of whom were black, were killed in the Soweto uprising of 1976.[41] Between 1984 and 1986, South Africa was in turmoil as a series of nationwide protests, strikes and riots took place against apartheid, and the black townships around Johannesburg were scenes of some of the fiercest struggles between the police and anti-apartheid demonstrators.[44]

The central area of the city underwent something of a decline in the 1980s and 1990s, due to the high crime rate and when property speculators directed large amounts of capital into suburban shopping malls, decentralised office parks, and entertainment centres. Sandton City was opened in 1973, followed by Rosebank Mall in 1976, and Eastgate in 1979.[45]

During the 1990s, the city faced rapid growth of crime throughout large parts of the city. Some areas of skyscrapers were abandoned, many residents left their homes, and businesses moved out. Some historical buildings in central areas were destroyed by fires that spread relentlessly.[46]

21st century

Like many cities around the world, there is an increasing focus on the rejuvenation of the inner city of Johannesburg. One of these initiatives is the Maboneng District located on the south-eastern side of the CBD. Originally a hub for art, it has expanded to include restaurants, entertainment venues and retail stores as well as accommodation and hotels. Maboneng calls itself "a place of inspiration—a creative hub, a place to do business, a destination for visitors and a safe, integrated community for residents. A beacon of strength in Africa's most economically prosperous city".[47]

After being destroyed in 2008 to make way for a motor showroom by Imperial Holdings, the iconic Rand Steam Laundries are now being redeveloped as an exact replica, by the order of the Johannesburg Heritage Council. Apart from one filtration shed, there is nothing left on the site after being destroyed. The site will consist of a 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft) precinct.[48][49]

On 12 May 2008, a series of riots started in the township of Alexandra, in the north-eastern part of Johannesburg, when locals attacked migrants from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, killing two people and injuring 40 others. These riots sparked the xenophobic attacks of 2008.[50] The 2019 Johannesburg riots were similar in nature and origin to the 2008 xenophobic riots.[51]

A completely refurbished Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup final.

Geography

Topography

 
Satellite image of Johannesburg
 
January 2008 Johannesburg aerial view looking towards the south-east

Johannesburg is located in the eastern plateau area of South Africa known as the Highveld, at an elevation of 1,753 metres (5,751 ft). The former Central Business District is located on the southern side of the prominent ridge called the Witwatersrand (English: White Water's Ridge) and the terrain falls to the north and south. By and large the Witwatersrand marks the watershed between the Limpopo and Vaal rivers as the northern part of the city is drained by the Jukskei River while the southern part of the city, including most of the Central Business District, is drained by the Klip River. The north and west of the city has undulating hills while the eastern parts are flatter.

Johannesburg may not be built on a river or harbour, but its streams contribute to two of southern Africa's mightiest rivers, the Limpopo and the Orange. Most of the springs from which many of these streams emanate are now covered in concrete and canalised, accounting for the fact that the names of early farms in the area often end with "fontein", meaning "spring" in Afrikaans. Braamfontein, Rietfontein, Zevenfontein, Doornfontein, Zandfontein and Randjesfontein are some examples. When the first white settlers reached the area that is now Johannesburg, they noticed the glistening rocks on the ridges, running with trickles of water, fed by the streams—giving the area its name, the Witwatersrand, "the ridge of white waters". Another explanation is that the whiteness comes from the quartzite rock, which has a particular sheen to it after rain.[52]

The site was not chosen for its streams, however. The main reasons the city was founded where it stands today was because of the gold. Indeed, the city once sat near massive amounts of gold, given that at one point the Witwatersrand gold industry produced forty per cent of the planet's gold.[53]

Parks and gardens

Main article: Johannesburg City Parks

Parks and gardens in Johannesburg are maintained by Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo.[54] City Parks is also responsible for planting the city's many green trees, making Johannesburg one of the 'greenest' cities in the world. It has been estimated that there are six million trees in the city with the number growing every year—1.2 million on pavements and sidewalks, and a further 4.8 million in private gardens.[55] City Parks continues to invest in planting trees, particularly those previously disadvantaged areas of Johannesburg which were not positive beneficiaries of apartheid Johannesburg's urban planning. Johannesburg Botanical Garden, located in the suburb of Emmarentia, is a popular recreational park.

Johannesburg and environs also offer various options to visitors wishing to view wildlife, in addition to the Johannesburg Zoo, one of the largest in South Africa. The Lion Park nature reserve, next to Lesedi Cultural Village, is home to over 80 lions and various other game, while the Krugersdorp Nature Reserve, a 1500 ha game reserve, is a forty-minute drive from the city centre. The De Wildt Cheetah Centre[56] in the Magaliesberg runs a successful breeding program for cheetah, wild dog and other endangered species. The Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve,[57] situated in the "Cradle of Humankind" on 1200 ha of "the typical highveld of Gauteng" also runs a breeding programme for endangered species including Bengal tigers, Siberian tigers and the extremely rare white lion.[citation needed] To the south, 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) from the city centre, is the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve home to large mammals and hiking trails.

Climate

 
An aerial photograph of summer rain clouds over Johannesburg. The city's climate experiences regular daily thunderstorms from November to March in the afternoons.

Johannesburg is situated on the highveld plateau, and has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb). The city enjoys a sunny climate, with the summer months (October to April) characterised by hot days followed by afternoon thundershowers and cool evenings, and the winter months (May to September) by dry, sunny days followed by cold nights.[58] Temperatures in Johannesburg are usually fairly mild due to the city's high elevation, with an average maximum daytime temperature in January of 25.6 °C (78.1 °F), dropping to an average maximum of around 16 °C (61 °F) in June. The UV index for Johannesburg in summers is extreme, often reaching 14–16 due to the high elevation and its location in the subtropics.[59]

Winter is the sunniest time of the year, with mild days and cool nights, dropping to 4.1 °C (39.4 °F) in June and July. The temperature occasionally drops to below freezing at night, causing frost. Snow is a rare occurrence, with snowfall having been experienced in the twentieth century during May 1956, August 1962, June 1964 and September 1981. In the 21st century, there was light sleet in 2006, as well as snow proper on 27 June 2007 (accumulating up to 10 centimetres or 4 inches in the southern suburbs)[60] and 7 August 2012.[61]

Regular cold fronts pass over in winter bringing very cold southerly winds but usually clear skies. The annual average rainfall is 713 millimetres (28.1 in), which is mostly concentrated in the summer months. Infrequent showers occur through the course of the winter months. The lowest nighttime minimum temperature ever recorded in Johannesburg is −8.2 °C (17.2 °F), on 13 June 1979. The lowest daytime maximum temperature recorded is 1.5 °C (34.7 °F), on 19 June 1964.[62]

Climate data for Johannesburg (Averages: 1961–1990 – extremes: 1951–1990)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 41.4
(106.5) 		33.5
(92.3) 		31.9
(89.4) 		29.3
(84.7) 		26.4
(79.5) 		23.1
(73.6) 		24.4
(75.9) 		26.2
(79.2) 		30.0
(86.0) 		32.2
(90.0) 		38.5
(101.3) 		39.4
(102.9) 		41.4
(106.5)
Mean maximum °C (°F) 30.2
(86.4) 		29.1
(84.4) 		28.0
(82.4) 		25.5
(77.9) 		23.0
(73.4) 		20.4
(68.7) 		21.1
(70.0) 		24.4
(75.9) 		28.4
(83.1) 		29.4
(84.9) 		29.5
(85.1) 		29.8
(85.6) 		31.4
(88.5)
Average high °C (°F) 25.6
(78.1) 		25.1
(77.2) 		24.0
(75.2) 		21.1
(70.0) 		18.9
(66.0) 		16.0
(60.8) 		16.7
(62.1) 		19.4
(66.9) 		22.8
(73.0) 		23.8
(74.8) 		24.2
(75.6) 		25.2
(77.4) 		21.9
(71.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) 19.5
(67.1) 		19.0
(66.2) 		18.0
(64.4) 		15.3
(59.5) 		12.6
(54.7) 		9.6
(49.3) 		10.0
(50.0) 		12.5
(54.5) 		15.9
(60.6) 		17.1
(62.8) 		17.9
(64.2) 		19.0
(66.2) 		15.5
(59.9)
Average low °C (°F) 14.7
(58.5) 		14.1
(57.4) 		13.1
(55.6) 		10.3
(50.5) 		7.2
(45.0) 		4.1
(39.4) 		4.1
(39.4) 		6.2
(43.2) 		9.3
(48.7) 		11.2
(52.2) 		12.7
(54.9) 		13.9
(57.0) 		10.1
(50.2)
Mean minimum °C (°F) 11.0
(51.8) 		10.3
(50.5) 		8.5
(47.3) 		4.7
(40.5) 		1.6
(34.9) 		−1.9
(28.6) 		−1.9
(28.6) 		−0.6
(30.9) 		1.8
(35.2) 		4.7
(40.5) 		7.3
(45.1) 		9.5
(49.1) 		−3.1
(26.4)
Record low °C (°F) 7.2
(45.0) 		6.0
(42.8) 		2.1
(35.8) 		0.5
(32.9) 		−2.5
(27.5) 		−8.2
(17.2) 		−5.1
(22.8) 		−5.0
(23.0) 		−3.3
(26.1) 		0.2
(32.4) 		1.5
(34.7) 		3.5
(38.3) 		−8.2
(17.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 125
(4.9) 		90
(3.5) 		91
(3.6) 		54
(2.1) 		13
(0.5) 		9
(0.4) 		4
(0.2) 		6
(0.2) 		27
(1.1) 		72
(2.8) 		117
(4.6) 		105
(4.1) 		713
(28.1)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 15.9 11.2 11.9 8.6 2.9 2.0 1.0 2.1 3.8 9.8 15.2 14.9 99.3
Average relative humidity (%) 69 70 68 65 56 53 49 46 47 56 65 66 59
Mean monthly sunshine hours 250.1 224.8 238.8 236.9 276.0 266.9 283.9 284.1 280.8 269.5 248.7 263.9 3,124.4
Mean daily daylight hours 13.6 13.0 12.2 11.5 10.8 10.5 10.7 11.2 12.0 12.7 13.4 13.8 12.1
Average ultraviolet index 14 14 12 9 6 5 5 7 9 12 14 14 10
Source 1: World Meteorological Organization,[63] NOAA[64]
Source 2: South African Weather Service[65] Weather Atlas[66]

Demographics

Johannesburg population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1886 3,000—    
1904 99,052+21.44%
1908 180,687+16.22%
1985 1,783,000+3.02%
1990 1,898,000+1.26%
2000 2,745,000+3.76%
2001 3,326,055+21.17%
2005 3,272,600−0.40%
2011 4,474,829+5.35%
Source: [67][38][68][69]

According to the 2011 South African National Census, the population of Johannesburg is 4,434,827 people,[69] making it the most populous city in South Africa (it has been the most populous city in South Africa since at least the 1950s).[70][71] From the 2001 census, the people live in 1,006,930 formal households, of which 86% have a flush or chemical toilet, and 91% have refuse removed by the municipality at least once a week. 81% of households have access to running water, and 80% use electricity as the main source of energy. 29% of Johannesburg residents stay in informal dwellings.[72] 66% of households are headed by one person.

Johannesburg's urban agglomeration spreads well beyond the administrative boundary of the municipality. The population of the whole area has been estimated to be variously at 7,860,781 in 2011 by "citypopulation.de",[7] or 9,115,000 in 2018 by Demographia (for "Johannesburg-East Rand", 41st highest in the world).[73] The area of this urban agglomeration was put by Demographia to be 2,590 km2, 31st largest in the world.[73] Johannesburg's suburbs are the product of urban sprawl and are regionalised into north, south, east and west, and they generally have different personalities.[74] Greater Johannesburg consists of more than five hundred suburbs in an area covering more than two hundred square miles (520 square kilometres).[53] Although black Africans can be found throughout Johannesburg and its surrounding area, greater Johannesburg remains highly racially segregated.[53]

Within the Metropolitan Municipality, the old centre, established in 1886 and given city status in 1928, has been listed in recent censuses as a "main place". As of 2011, this main place had a population of 957,441 and an area of 334.81 km2.[75][76][77] Some authors consider the metropolitan area to include most of Gauteng province.[78] The UN's Population Division in 2016 estimated the metropolitan area population to be 9,616,000.[79]

Blacks account for 73% of the population, followed by whites at 18%, coloureds at 6% and Asians at 4%. 42% of the population is under the age of 24, while 6% of the population is over 60 years of age. 37% of city residents are unemployed. 91% of the unemployed are Black African. Women comprise 43% of the working population. 19% of economically active adults work in wholesale and retail sectors, 18% in financial, real estate and business services, 17% in the community, social and personal services and 12% are in manufacturing. Only 0.7% work in mining.

Religion

 
Dutch Reformed Church in Jeppestown

53% belong to mainstream Christian churches, 24% are not affiliated with any organised religion, 14% are members of African Independent Churches, 3% are Muslim, 1% are Jewish and 1% are Hindu.

Among the places of worship, they are predominantly Christian churches and temples: Serbian Orthodox church, Zion Christian Church, Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, Assemblies of God, Baptist Union of Southern Africa (Baptist World Alliance), Methodist Church of Southern Africa (World Methodist Council), Anglican Church of Southern Africa (Anglican Communion), Presbyterian Church of Africa (World Communion of Reformed Churches), Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg (Catholic Church) and the Johannesburg South Africa Temple (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).[80] There are also Muslim mosques, Hindu temples, A Sikh Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) in Sandton and a large number of synagogues.

Languages

 
Geographical distribution of home languages in Johannesburg
  Afrikaans
  English
  Ndebele
  Xhosa
  Zulu
  Northern Sotho
  Sotho
  Tswana
  Venda
  Tsonga
  No language dominant

32% of Johannesburg residents speak Nguni languages at home, 24% speak Sotho languages, 18% speak English, 7% speak Afrikaans and 6% speak Tshivenda. 29% of adults have graduated from high school. 14% have higher education (University or Technical school). 7% of residents are completely illiterate. 15% have primary education.

Gender Population %
Female 473,148 49.42
Male 484,293 50.58
Race Population %
Black African 614,793 64.21
White 133,379 13.93
Coloured 133,029 13.89
Asian 63,918 6.68
Other 12,320 1.29
First language Population[6][81] %
Zulu 1,022,747 23.41
Sotho 420,117 9.61
Xhosa 298,523 6.83
Afrikaans 318,063 7.28
Tswana 335,713 7.68
Sepedi 317,277 7.26
English 878,230 20.10
Tsonga 287,625 6.58
Swazi 35,926 0.82
Venda 141,435 3.24
Ndebele 126,587 2.90
Other 168,566 3.86
Sign language 18,793 0.43

Education

Johannesburg has a well-developed higher education system of both private and public universities. Johannesburg is served by the public universities University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg.

University of Johannesburg was formed on 1 January 2005, when three separate universities and campuses—Rand Afrikaans University, Technikon Witwatersrand, and the Johannesburg campuses of Vista University—were merged. The new university offers education primarily in English and Afrikaans, although courses may be taken in any of South Africa's official languages.

The University of the Witwatersrand is one of the leading universities in Africa,[82] and is famous as a centre of resistance to apartheid. It is attached to the world's third largest hospital, the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, located in Soweto.

The University of Pretoria's business school the Gordon Institute of Business Science is located in Illovo, Johannesburg.

Many private colleges are also situated in Johannesburg, such as Damelin,[83] CTI,[84] Lyceum College[85] and the South African campus[86] of Monash University (six of the other campuses are in Australia, while the eighth is in Malaysia), as well as the Midrand Graduate Institute[87] which is located in Midrand.

Johannesburg also has one of several film schools in the country, one of which has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Student Film in 2006.[88] The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance, or AFDA for short, is situated in Auckland Park.

Johannesburg also has three teacher-training colleges and a technical college. There are numerous kindergartens, primary schools and high schools in the region.

Economy

Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa, producing 16% of South Africa's gross domestic product, and accounts for 40% of Gauteng's economic activity.[citation needed] In a 2008 survey conducted by Mastercard, Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top cities in the world as a worldwide centre of commerce (the only city in Africa).[89]

Mining was the foundation of the Witwatersrand's economy, but its importance is gradually declining due to dwindling reserves and service and manufacturing industries have become more significant to the city's economy. While gold mining no longer takes place within the city limits, most mining companies still have their headquarters in Johannesburg. The city's manufacturing industries extend across a range of areas and there is still a reliance on heavy industries including steel and cement plants. The service and other industries include banking, IT, real estate, transport, broadcast and print media, private health care, transport and a vibrant leisure and consumer retail market.[citation needed] Johannesburg has Africa's largest stock exchange, the JSE although it has moved out of the central business district. Due to its commercial role, the city is the seat of the provincial government and the site of a number of government branch offices, as well as consular offices and other institutions.

The Witwatersrand urban complex is a major consumer of water in a dry region. Its continued economic and population growth has depended on schemes to divert water from other regions of South Africa and from the highlands of Lesotho, the biggest of which is the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, but additional sources will be needed early in the 21st century.

The container terminal at City Deep is known to be the largest "dry port" in the world,[citation needed] with some 50% of cargo that arrives through the ports of Durban and Cape Town arriving in Johannesburg. The City Deep area has been declared an IDZ (industrial development zone) by the Gauteng government.[citation needed]

Retail

See also: Category: Shopping centres in Johannesburg
 
Sandton City shopping mall in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Johannesburg's largest shopping centres, measured by gross leasable area (GLA, the uniform measure of centre size as determined by the International Council of Shopping Centers) are Sandton City, Eastgate, Mall of Africa, Westgate and Cresta. Melrose Arch is one of its most prestigious.[citation needed] Other centres include Hyde Park Corner, Rosebank, Southgate, The Glen Shopping Centre, Johannesburg South, and Clearwater Mall. There were also plans to build a large shopping centre, known as the Zonk'Izizwe Shopping Resort, in Midrand, but these have been indefinitely delayed due to the opening of Mall of Africa. "Zonk'Izizwe" means "All Nations" in Zulu language, indicating that the centre will cater to the city's diverse mix of peoples and races. Also a complex named Greenstone in Modderfontein has been opened.[90] Cradlestone Mall is a new mall named for its location which is close to the Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site.

Law and government

Government

Main article: City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
 
The seven regions of the city

Upon the creation of the Metropolitan Municipality in 2000 the city was subdivided into eleven regions, simply named Region 1 to Region 11. These were reorganized in 2006 into the current seven regions named alphabetically Region A to Region G, as shown on the nearby map.[91]

As of 2006 the seven regions are:

  • Region A: Diepsloot, Kya Sand;
  • Region B: Randburg, Rosebank, Emmarentia, Greenside, Melville, Northcliff, Rosebank, Parktown, Parktown North;
  • Region C: Roodepoort, Constantia Kloof, Northgate;
  • Region D: Doornkop, Soweto, Dobsonville, Protea Glen;
  • Region E: Alexandra, Wynberg, Sandton;
  • Region F: Inner City;
  • Region G: Orange Farm, Ennerdale, Lenasia.

In the 2016 municipal elections, the ruling party, the ANC, lost their majority in Johannesburg for the first time since taking power in 1994, claiming only 44.12% of the vote. The Economic Freedom Fighters and Democratic Alliance both agreed to vote for the DA mayoral candidate, Herman Mashaba, who was sworn into power as the first Democratic Alliance mayor of Johannesburg on 22 August 2016.[92] The ANC returned to the city's executive on 4 December 2019 following the election of its regional chair, Geoff Makhubo, to the mayoralty.[93] Makhubo died on 9 July 2021 and Eunice Mgcina was appointed acting mayor.[94] A new mayor, Jolidee Matongo, was elected unopposed on 10 August 2021.[95] Matongo died in a car accident in September 2021 and Mpho Moerane was elected to succeed him.[96]

Crime

 
Officers of the South African Police Service with Vektor R5 rifles on parade in Johannesburg, 2010

After the Group Areas Act was scrapped in 1991, Johannesburg was affected by urban blight. Thousands of poor black people, who had been forbidden to live in the city proper, moved into the city from surrounding black townships like Soweto and many immigrants from economically beleaguered and war torn African nations flooded into South Africa. Many buildings were abandoned by landlords, especially in high-density areas, such as Hillbrow. Many corporations and institutions, including the stock exchange, moved their headquarters away from the city centre, to suburbs like Sandton.[97]

Reviving the city centre is one of the main aims of the municipal government of Johannesburg. Drastic measures have been taken to reduce crime in the city. These measures include closed-circuit television on street corners. As of 11 December 2008, every street corner in Johannesburg central is under high-tech CCTV surveillance.[98] The CCTV system, operated by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD), is also able to detect stolen or hijacked vehicles by scanning the number plates of every vehicle travelling through the central business district (CBD), then comparing them to the eNaTIS database. The JMPD claims that the average response time by police for crimes committed in the CBD is 60 seconds.[98]

Crime levels in Johannesburg have dropped as the economy has stabilised and begun to grow.[99] Between 2001 and 2006, R9-billion (US$1.2 billion) has been invested in the city centre. Further investment of around R10-billion (US$1.5 billion) is expected in the city centre alone by 2010. This excludes development directly associated with the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[100] In an effort to prepare Johannesburg for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, local government enlisted the help of Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, to help bring down the crime rate, as the opening and closing matches of the tournament were played in the city.[101]

Murders in the Johannesburg municipality amounted to 1,697 in 2007 according to the South African Medical Research Council, a rate of 43 per 100,000 inhabitants.[102] In 2016 that number had sharply declined to 29.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, placing the murder rate at more than half of that of Cape Town and even below the national average.[103]

Culture

Johannesburg is a cultural hub in South Africa[104] and has a wide variety of cultural venues, making it a prominent area for many creative and cultural industries.[104]

Johannesburg is home to the National School of Arts, The University of Witwatersrand's School of the Arts and the South African Ballet Theatre,[104][105] as well as the Johannesburg Art Gallery[106] and other prominent cultural landmarks, such as the Mary Fitzgerald Square[104] and numerous other museums, theatres, galleries and libraries.[104]

The Johannesburg City Library is located in the Central Business District of Johannesburg.[107]

Museums and galleries

Specialist museums cover subjects such as Africana, costume, design, fossils, geology, military history, medical, pharmacy, photography and transportation networks such as railways. Gold Reef City, a living museum, was originally part of the Crown Mines Complex, where gold was mined to a depth of 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). The Market Theatre stages plays, comedy shows, and musical performances.

The following is a list of some of the museums and galleries that can be found in Johannesburg.[108]

  • AECI Dynamite Factory Museum
The AECI Dynamite Factory Museum, housed in the 1895 residence of a mining official, records the history of explosives, with particular emphasis on their use in the mining industry.
  • Adler Museum of Medicine
History of Medicine, brainchild of Dr Cyril Adler, was formally inaugurated 1962. The museum's role was to collect and preserve for posterity all material that would illustrate the history of medicine in general and of South Africa in particular.
Named after the former President Mandela's clan, the museum's theme is Mzabalazo and charts South Africa's journey to democracy.
  • Origins Centre Museum
Located on the campus of the University of the Witwatersrand in Braamfontein,[109] this museum contains some excellent examples of southern African rock art and the origins of humankind.
  • Bernberg Fashion Museum
Bernberg Fashion Museum is primarily a museum collection, consisting of objects, and explains why and how clothing has changed and how the fashions of the past influence those of today.
The Zoology Museum is the only natural history museum in Johannesburg which is unusual because all the other major cities in South Africa have large public natural history museums. It has retained a unique character as the display specimens are exhibited in finely crafted teak cabinets which allow the viewer to engage directly with scores of objects at close range.

Entertainment and performing arts

 
Rise Against live in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of RAMFest 2013

Johannesburg hosts many of South Africa's premier music events, such as RAMFest's Johannesburg leg,[110][111][112][113] In The City[114] and many international tours from bands and artists around the world.[115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122] Several critically acclaimed musical acts come from Johannesburg, such as Kongos, Johnny Clegg, Zebra & Giraffe, Man As Machine, The Parlotones, and ShortStraw. The Joburg Theatre complex hosts drama, opera and ballet.

Public art

Public art ranges from sculptures to murals to pieces by artists like William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx's Fire Walker. Many pieces are developed through community workshops, such as the Vilakazi Street sculptures. Others are functional, such as street furniture found in Hillbrow and the city centre.[citation needed]

As part of the Johannesburg Development Agency's (JDA) policy to make city areas desirable to potential investors, the organisation has identified public art as a way to improve the urban experience of the city.[123] The JDA spends 1 percent of all projects of over R10-million on public art.[124]

Architecture and urbanism

Main articles: Architecture of Johannesburg and Suburbs of Johannesburg
 
Johannesburg Central Business District

Johannesburg is home to some of Africa's tallest structures, such as the Sentech Tower, Hillbrow Tower, the Carlton Centre and Ponte City Apartments. The Johannesburg city skyline has most of the tallest buildings on the continent and contains most international organisations such as IBM, Absa, BHP, Willis Group, First National Bank, Nedbank and Standard Bank. Many of the city's older buildings have been demolished and more modern ones built in their place. North of the CBD is Hillbrow, the most densely populated residential area in southern Africa. Northwest of the CBD is Braamfontein, a secondary CBD housing many offices and business premises. The CBD is predominated by four styles of architecture, being Victorian Colonial, Edwardian Baroque, Art Deco and Modernism.

The city is often described as Africa's economic powerhouse, and contentiously as a modern and prosperous African city.[125] Johannesburg, like many metropolises, has more than one central business district (CBD), including, but not limited to, Sandton, Rosebank and Roodepoort in addition to the original CBD. Some tend to include Benoni and Germiston as well.

Due to its many different central districts, Johannesburg would fall under the multiple nuclei model in human geography terms. It is the hub of South Africa's commercial, financial, industrial, and mining undertakings. Johannesburg is part of a larger urban region. It is closely linked with several other satellite towns. Randburg and Sandton form part of the northern area. The east and west ridges spread out from central Johannesburg. The Central Business District covers an area of 6 square kilometres (2 sq mi). It consists of closely packed skyscrapers such as the Carlton Centre, Marble Towers, Trust Bank Building, Ponte City Apartments, Southern Life Centre and 11 Diagonal Street.

Johannesburg's city centre retains its elements of a rectangular grid pattern that was first officially recorded in 1886.[53] Streets are narrow and filled with high rises built in the mid- to late 1900s. Old Victorian–era buildings first built in the late 1800s have been torn down long ago.[53] The 1900s brought along with it the introduction of many different architectural styles and structures. The Johannesburg Art Gallery and Supreme Court Building being two examples. These were important Beaux-Arts structures, with the style put in place by (at the time) colonial parent, the British Empire.[53] South Africa didn't borrow architectural techniques exclusively from Britain, however. They were also inspired by American models and styles, having built several structures like the ESKOM Building and the Corner House to emulate the prowess of New York City, located in the United States.[53]

 
Panoramic view of the Johannesburg Central Business District

Sports

 
Uruguay vs. Ghana at the FNB Stadium, during the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Johannesburg's most popular sports by participation are association football, cricket, rugby union, and running. Early each Sunday morning, tens of thousands of runners gather to take part in informal runs organised by several athletic clubs.

The city has several football clubs in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) and the National First Division. In the PSL, the top Johannesburg teams are all fierce rivals and include Kaizer Chiefs (nicknamed Amakhosi), Orlando Pirates (nicknamed the Buccaneers), Moroka Swallows and Wits University (nicknamed the Clever Boys). They are based at the city's FNB, Orlando, Dobsonville and Bidvest stadiums. Several large-scale league and cup games are played at Soccer City the venue of the 2010 FIFA World Cup final. First Division teams are Jomo Cosmos and FC AK. Katlehong City and Alexandra United, play at Alexandra and Reiger Park stadium respectively.

Cricket is one of the more popular sports. In cricket, the Highveld Lions represent Johannesburg, the rest of Gauteng as well as the North West at the Wanderers Stadium which was the venue for the 2003 Cricket World Cup Final in which Australia successfully defended their title against India. Wanderers Stadium hosted what many cricket fans consider the greatest ever ODI match in which South Africa successfully chased down 434 runs. They take part in the first class SuperSport Series, the one-day MTN Domestic Championship and the Twenty20 Ram Slam T20 Challenge. Johannesburg also hosted matches from and the final of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, in which India beat Pakistan in the final.

The Lions, formerly the Cats, represent Johannesburg, North West and Mpumalanga in the United Rugby Championship competition, which includes teams from South Africa, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The Golden Lions compete in the Currie Cup, which they have won on ten occasions. They are housed at Ellis Park Stadium, which also hosted the IRB 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, in which the South African Springboks defeated the New Zealand All Blacks.

The city's Ticketpro Dome and the Ellis Park Arena hosted two of the three NBA Africa Games.[126]

Infrastructure

Transportation

Johannesburg is a young and sprawling city, with its public transportation built in its infancy, geared towards private motorists, and lacks a convenient public transportation system. The City though has invested a large percentage of its budget toward an effective integrated public transportation system. A significant number of the city's residents are dependent on the city's informal minibus taxis.[citation needed]

Roads

Main article: Johannesburg freeways
 
The M1 is a major freeway in Johannesburg

Johannesburg shares a network of metropolitan routes with Krugersdorp and Ekurhuleni. The fact that Johannesburg is not near a large navigable body of water has meant that ground transportation has been the most important method of transporting people and goods in and out of the city. One of Africa's most famous "beltways" or ring roads/orbitals is the Johannesburg Ring Road. The road is composed of three freeways that converge on the city, forming an 80-kilometre (50 mi) loop around it: the N3 Eastern Bypass, which links Johannesburg with Durban; the N1 Western Bypass, which links Johannesburg with Pretoria and Cape Town; and the N12 Southern Bypass, which links Johannesburg with eMalahleni and Kimberley. The N3 was built exclusively with asphalt, while the N12 and N1 sections were made with concrete, hence the nickname given to the N1 Western Bypass, "The Concrete Highway". In spite of being up to 12 lanes wide in some areas, the Johannesburg Ring Road is frequently clogged with traffic. The Gillooly's Interchange, built on an old farm and the point at which the N3 Eastern Bypass and the R24 Airport Freeway intersect, is the busiest interchange in the Southern Hemisphere.[127] It is claimed[127][128] that the N1 is the busiest road in South Africa.

Johannesburg has the most freeways connected to it.[clarification needed] It has the N1, N3, N12, N14, N17, R21, R24 and the R59, all leading to Johannesburg. The M1 and M2 freeways were built to direct traffic towards the city centre. These two freeways are congested due to mass urbanisation.

Bus and taxi transit

 
Rea Vaya bus stop in Johannesburg CBD in Commissioner Street at Ntemi Piliso Street

Johannesburg is served by a bus fleet operated by Metrobus 11 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine, a corporate unit of the City of Johannesburg. It has a fleet consisting of approximately 550 single and double-decker buses, plying 84 different routes in the city. This total includes 200 modern buses (150 double-deckers and 50 single-deckers), made by Volvo, Scania AB and Marcopolo/Brasa in 2002. Metrobus' fleet carries approximately 20 million passengers per annum. In addition, there are a number of private bus operators, though most focus on the inter-city routes, or on bus charters for touring groups. The city's main bus terminus is situated in Gandhi Square, where passengers can also obtain information regarding the Metrobus service from the walk-in customer information desk.

In 2010, in order to create an efficient public transport system the Rea Vaya bus rapid system was developed/built. The buses run on their own dedicated bus lanes on the main trunk and complementary routes. The buses also have large feeder routes that run on ordinary roads. The Rea Vaya works on a smartcard payment system, on entering the station or bus the passenger taps his/her smartcard onto the validator/scanner and taps out at the next station with the calculated amount. The routes cover both the southern and northern suburbs with the main trunk route running from Soweto to Sandton and Rosebank, and the feeder and complementary routes covering most of Johannesburg, with the notable exceptions of Midrand and Centurion. A subsequent expansion (phase 1-C;1-D) will cover these areas. In 2017, the Rea Vaya bus rapid transit was recorded to be making huge losses recovering only about 40 per cent of the operating costs and relying heavily on government subsidies.[129]

Johannesburg has two kinds of taxis, metered taxis and minibus taxis. Unlike many cities, metered taxis are not allowed to drive around the city looking for passengers and instead must be called and ordered to a destination. The Gauteng Provincial Government has launched a new metered taxi programme in an attempt to increase the use of metered taxis in the city.[citation needed]

The minibus "taxis" are the de facto standard and essential form of transport for the majority of the population. Since the 1980s, the minibus taxi industry has been severely affected by turf wars.[130][131]

Airports

Johannesburg is served principally by O. R. Tambo International Airport (formerly Johannesburg International Airport and before that Jan Smuts Airport) for both domestic and international flights. Lanseria Airport, located to the north-west of the city and closer to the business hub of Sandton, is used for commercial flights to Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Botswana, and Sun City. Other airports include Rand Airport and Grand Central Airport. Rand Airport, located in Germiston, is a small airfield used mostly for private aircraft and the home of South African Airways' first Boeing 747-200 ZS-SAN and also 747SP ZS-SPC and now serves as an aviation museum. Grand Central is located in Midrand and also caters to small, private aircraft.

Rail

 
Metrorail Gauteng at Braamfontein, Johannesburg

The Metrorail Gauteng commuter rail system connects central Johannesburg to Soweto, Pretoria, and most of the satellite towns along the Witwatersrand. The railways transport huge numbers of commuters every day. However, the Metrorail infrastructure was built in Johannesburg's infancy and covers only the older areas in the city's south. The northern areas, including the business districts of Sandton, Midrand, Randburg, and Rosebank, are served by the rapid rail link Gautrain.

 
Gautrain station at OR Tambo Airport

A part of the Gauteng Provincial Government's Blue IQ Project, Gautrain has made provision for a rapid rail link, running north to south, between Johannesburg and Pretoria, and west to east between Sandton and the OR Tambo International Airport. Construction of the Gautrain Rapid Rail started in October 2006 and was completed in June 2012. It consists of a number of underground stations, as well as above-ground stations. Stations on the north–south line include Johannesburg's Park Station (underground), Rosebank (underground), Sandton (underground), Marlboro (above-ground and raised), Midrand, Pretoria Station and Hatfield. There is also a line from the O.R. Tambo International Airport (above-ground and raised) travelling to Sandton via Rhodesfield (raised) and Marlboro. A 200-kilometre expansion is underway and will consist of 3 new lines and 18 new stations, and is expected to cost R18 billion and one-lines (Soweto Mamalodi) could take 4 years to build, most of the new stations will be in Johannesburg.

The east–west line from the airport to Sandton opened in June 2010 in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, while the north–south line opened on 2 August 2011, except for Park Station, which opened in 2012.

The rail system was designed to alleviate traffic on the N1 freeway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, which records vehicle loads of up to 300,000 per week day.[132] An extensive bus feeder system has also been implemented, which allows access to the main stations from the outer suburbs, but is limited to a five-kilometre radius, which neglects the rest of the suburbs. This is the first new major railway system that has been laid in South Africa since 1977.[133]

In 2010, a high-speed rail link was proposed between Johannesburg and Durban.[134] In 2020 the government announced plans for high-speed rail from Johannesburg to Soweto.[135]

Freight

City Deep Terminal is the name of Africa's largest dry port and was officially opened by the South African Railways Services (SARS) in 1977. The container terminal is connected to the Port of Durban, Port of Ngqurha, Port of Cape Town, as well as Southern Africa by road and rail. At least forty percent of container export/imports run on the Natal Corridor (Natcor) which is directly linked by rail to City Deep.

Telecommunication

Johannesburg has 4 major cellular telecommunications operators: Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, and Telkom Mobile. Vodacom's global headquarters is located in Midrand. It was formed in 1994, just after the South African elections of 1994.[136]

Media

 
South African Broadcasting Corporation headquarters in Uitsaaisentrum, Johannesburg

The city is home to several media groups which own a number of newspaper and magazine titles. The two main print media groups are Independent Newspapers and Naspers (Media24). The country's electronic media is also headquartered in the greater metropolitan region. Beeld is a leading Afrikaans newspaper for the city and the country,[citation needed] while the Sunday newspaper City Press is the third largest selling newspaper in South Africa.[citation needed] The Sowetan is one of a number of titles catering for the black market although in recent years it competes against newly arrived tabloids. The Mail & Guardian is an investigative liberal newspaper while The Citizen is a tabloid-style paper, and The Star is a local newspaper that mostly covers Gauteng-related issues. The Sunday Times is the most widely read national Sunday newspaper.[citation needed] True Love is the most widely read women's magazine,[citation needed] catering primarily to the up-and-coming middle class black female market, and published by Media 24. The Times is a national newspaper that covers current issues.[citation needed] Media ownership is relatively complicated, with a number of cross shareholdings which have been rationalised in recent years, resulting in the movement of some ownership into the hands of black shareholders. This has been accompanied by a growth in black editorship and journalism.[citation needed]

Johannesburg has a number of regional radio stations such as 94.7 Highveld Stereo, Radiokansel / Radio Pulpit, Kaya FM, Radio 2000, YFM, Metro FM, 5FM, Jacaranda FM, SAfm, Phalaphala FM, Radio 702 and UJFM.[137] The number of radio stations has increased in recent years as the government has sold off frequencies to private companies.

Johannesburg is also the headquarters of state-owned broadcaster South African Broadcasting Corporation[138] and pay-broadcast network Multichoice[139] which distributes M-Net and DStv a digital satellite service, while eTV also has a presence in the city. The city has two television towers, the Hillbrow Tower[140] and the Sentech Tower.[141]

International relations

Twin towns – sister cities

Johannesburg is twinned with:[142]

Partner cities

Johannesburg is cooperating with:[142][143]

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References

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  • The Corner House: The Early History of Johannesburg. Alan Patrick Cartwright. MacDonald. 1965. 295 pages.

External links

  •   Media related to Johannesburg at Wikimedia Commons
  •   Johannesburg travel guide from Wikivoyage
  • Official website
  • 261833893 Johannesburg on OpenStreetMap

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johannesburg, this, article, about, city, south, africa, other, uses, disambiguation, egoli, redirects, here, other, uses, goli, disambiguation, egoli, disambiguation, ɜːr, burg, also, ɑː, hahn, afrikaans, juəˈɦanəsbœrχ, zulu, xhosa, egoli, ɛˈɡɔːli, colloquial. This article is about the city in South Africa For other uses see Johannesburg disambiguation eGoli redirects here For other uses see Goli disambiguation and Egoli disambiguation Johannesburg dʒ oʊ ˈ h ae n ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ joh HAN iss burg US also ˈ h ɑː n HAHN Afrikaans jueˈɦanesbœrx Zulu and Xhosa eGoli ɛˈɡɔːli colloquially known as Jozi Joburg or The City of Gold 11 12 is the largest city in South Africa classified as a megacity 13 and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world 14 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 15 It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng which is the wealthiest province in South Africa 16 Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court the highest court in South Africa 17 Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg The city is located in the mineral rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large scale gold and diamond trade Johannesburg eGoli Zulu CityCity of JohannesburgPanoramic view of Johannesburg during sunsetJohannesburg CBD with Nelson Mandela BridgePonte City and Hillbrow Tower at nightFNB StadiumJohannesburg Art GalleryUniversity of the WitwatersrandBrixton TowerFlagCoat of armsNickname s Jo burg Jozi Muḓi Mulila Ngoma Venda version Joni Tsonga version Jobhag Bhojpuri version 1 Egoli Place of Gold 2 Gauteng Place of Gold Motto Unity in development 3 OpenStreetMapJohannesburgShow map of GautengJohannesburgShow map of South AfricaJohannesburgShow map of AfricaCoordinates 26 12 16 S 28 2 44 E 26 20444 S 28 04556 E 26 20444 28 04556Country South AfricaProvinceGautengMunicipalityCity of JohannesburgEstablished1886 4 Government TypeMetropolitan municipality MayorThapelo Amad 5 Al Jama ah Area 6 City164 498 km2 63 513 sq mi Urban 7 3 357 km2 1 296 sq mi Elevation1 753 m 5 751 ft Population 2019 8 City5 635 127 Urban 7 8 000 000 Urban density2 400 km2 6 200 sq mi Metro10 500 000Racial makeup 2019 8 Black African76 4 White13 7 Coloured5 3 Indian Asian4 9 Other0 8 First languages 2011 6 Zulu23 41 English20 10 Xhosa18 10 Sesotho9 61 Setswana7 68 Afrikaans7 28 Time zoneUTC 2 SAST Postal code street 2001PO box2000Area code010 and 011HDI0 75 High 2012 9 GDPUS 76 billion 2014 10 GDP per capita PPP US 16 370 2014 10 Websitewww wbr joburg wbr org wbr zaThe city was established in 1886 following the discovery of gold on what had been a farm Due to the extremely large gold deposit found along the Witwatersrand 18 within ten years the population had grown to 100 000 inhabitants A separate city from the late 1970s until 1994 Soweto is now part of Johannesburg Originally an acronym for South Western Townships Soweto originated as a collection of settlements on the outskirts of Johannesburg populated mostly by native African workers from the gold mining industry Soweto although eventually incorporated into Johannesburg had been separated as a residential area for blacks only no whites allowed who were not permitted to live in other White designated suburbs of Johannesburg Lenasia is predominantly populated by English speaking South Africans of Indian descent These areas were designated as non white areas in accordance with the segregationist policies of the South African government known as apartheid It was one of the host cities of the official tournament of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and it hosted the final The metropolis is an alpha global city as listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network In 2019 the population of the city of Johannesburg was 5 635 127 making it the most populous city in South Africa 8 In the same year the population of Johannesburg s urban agglomeration was put at 8 000 000 8 Land area of the municipal city 1 645 km2 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 Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 2 1 Gold rush and naming of the city 2 2 Rapid growth Jameson Raid and the Second Boer War 2 3 Post Union history 2 4 21st century 3 Geography 3 1 Topography 3 2 Parks and gardens 3 3 Climate 4 Demographics 4 1 Religion 4 2 Languages 4 3 Education 5 Economy 5 1 Retail 6 Law and government 6 1 Government 6 2 Crime 7 Culture 7 1 Museums and galleries 7 2 Entertainment and performing arts 7 3 Public art 7 4 Architecture and urbanism 7 5 Sports 8 Infrastructure 8 1 Transportation 8 1 1 Roads 8 1 2 Bus and taxi transit 8 1 3 Airports 8 1 4 Rail 8 1 5 Freight 8 2 Telecommunication 8 3 Media 9 International relations 9 1 Twin towns sister cities 9 2 Partner cities 10 Notes 11 References 12 External linksEtymology EditControversy surrounds the origin of the name There were quite a number of people with the name Johannes who were involved in the early history of the city 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 Another was Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger better known as Paul Kruger president of the South African Republic ZAR from 1883 to 1900 Johannes Meyer the first government official in the area is another possibility 19 Precise records for the choice of name were lost Johannes Rissik and Johannes Joubert were members of a delegation sent to England to obtain mining rights for the area 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 20 21 The City Hall is also located on Rissik Street History EditMain articles History of Johannesburg and Timeline of Johannesburg The region surrounding Johannesburg was originally inhabited by San hunter gatherers who used stone tools There is evidence that they lived there up to ten centuries ago 22 Stone walled ruins of Sotho Tswana towns and villages are scattered around the parts of the former Transvaal in which Johannesburg is situated 23 By 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 24 to present day Lesotho in the south 25 to the present day Pedi areas of the Limpopo Province 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 Many Sotho Tswana towns and villages in the areas around Johannesburg were destroyed and their people driven away during the wars emanating from Zululand during the late 18th and early 19th centuries the mfecane or difaqane wars citation needed and as a result an offshoot of the Zulu kingdom the Ndebele often referred to as the Matabele the name given them by the local Sotho Tswana set up a kingdom to the northwest of Johannesburg around modern day Rustenburg Gold rush and naming of the city Edit Main article Witwatersrand Gold Rush The Langlaagte farm near Paarlshoop on the Witwatersrand site of the first discovery of gold in 1886 Ferreirasdorp gold mine in 1886 the oldest part of Johannesburg 26 27 and where the first gold diggers initially settled 28 The main Witwatersrand gold reef was discovered in June 1884 on the farm Vogelstruisfontein by Jan Gerritse Bantjes son of Jan Bantjes this triggered the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the founding of Johannesburg in 1886 The discovery of gold rapidly attracted people to the area making necessary a name and governmental organisation for the area Jan Johan and Johannes were common male names among the Dutch of that time two men involved in surveying the area for the best location of the city Christian Johannes Joubert and Johann Rissik are considered the source of the name by some Johannes Meyer the first government official in the area is another possibility Precise records for the choice of name were lost 29 Within ten years the city of Johannesburg included 100 000 people 30 In September 1884 the Struben brothers discovered the Confidence Reef on the farm Wilgespruit near present day Roodepoort which further boosted excitement over gold prospects 31 254 The first gold to be crushed on the Witwatersrand was the gold bearing rock from the Bantjes mine crushed using the Struben brothers stamp machine News of the discovery soon reached Kimberley and directors Cecil Rhodes and Sir Joseph Robinson rode up to investigate the rumours for themselves They were guided to the Bantjes camp with its tents strung out over several kilometres and stayed with Bantjes for two nights citation needed In 1884 they purchased the first pure refined gold from Bantjes for 3 000 Incidentally Bantjes had from 1881 been operating the Kromdraai Gold Mine in the Cradle of Humankind together with his partner Johannes Stephanus Minnaar where they first discovered gold in 1881 and which also offered another kind of discovery the early ancestors of all mankind citation needed Some report Australian George Harrison as the first to make a claim for gold in the area that became Johannesburg as he found gold on a farm in July 1886 He did not remain in the area 32 Gold was earlier discovered some 400 kilometres 249 miles to the east of present day Johannesburg in Barberton Gold prospectors soon discovered the richer gold reefs of the Witwatersrand offered by Bantjes The original miners camp under the informal leadership of Col Ignatius Ferreira was located in the Fordsburg dip possibly because water was available there and because of the site s proximity to the diggings Following the establishment of Johannesburg the area was taken over by the Transvaal government who had it surveyed and named it Ferreira s Township today the suburb of Ferreirasdorp The first settlement at Ferreira s Camp was established as a tented camp and which soon reached a population of 3 000 by 1887 30 The government took over the camp surveyed it and named it Ferreira s Township 33 By 1896 Johannesburg was established as a city of over 100 000 inhabitants one of the fastest growth cities ever 30 Mines near Johannesburg are among the deepest in the world with some as deep as 4 000 metres 13 000 ft 34 Rapid growth Jameson Raid and the Second Boer War Edit Johannesburg in 1889 Commissioner Street in 1895 Like many late 19th century mining towns Johannesburg was a rough and disorganised place populated by white miners from all continents African tribesmen were recruited to perform unskilled mine work African women beer brewers cooked for and sold beer to the black migrant workers a very large number of European prostitutes gangsters impoverished Afrikaners tradesmen and the AmaWasha Zulu men who surprisingly dominated laundry work 35 As the value of control of the land increased tensions developed between the Boer dominated Transvaal government in Pretoria and the British culminating in the Jameson Raid that ended in fiasco at Doornkop in January 1896 The Second Boer War 1899 1902 saw British forces under Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts 1st Earl Roberts occupy the city on 30 May 1900 after a series of battles to the south west of its then limits near present day Krugersdorp citation needed Fighting took place at the Gatsrand Pass near Zakariyya Park on 27 May north of Vanwyksrust today s Nancefield Eldorado Park and Naturena the next day culminating in a mass infantry attack on what is now the waterworks ridge in Chiawelo and Senaoane on 29 May 36 37 During the Boer war many African mineworkers left Johannesburg creating a labour shortage which the mines ameliorated by bringing in labourers from China especially southern China After the war they were replaced by black workers but many Chinese stayed on creating Johannesburg s Chinese community which during the apartheid era was not legally classified as Asian but as Coloured The population in 1904 was 155 642 of whom 83 363 were whites 38 Post Union history Edit Pritchard Street c 1910 In 1917 Johannesburg became the headquarters of the Anglo American Corporation founded by Ernest Oppenheimer which ultimately became one of the world s largest corporations dominating both gold mining and diamond mining in South Africa Major building developments took place in the 1930s after South Africa went off the gold standard citation needed In the late 1940s and early 1950s Hillbrow went high rise In the 1950s and early 1960s the apartheid government constructed the massive agglomeration of townships that became known as Soweto New freeways encouraged massive suburban sprawl to the north of the city citation needed In the late 1960s and early 1970s tower blocks including the Carlton Centre and the Southern Life Centre filled the skyline of the central business district Under the system of apartheid Afrikaans for apartness or separate development although the system was founded by the British a comprehensive system of racial separation was imposed upon South Africa starting in 1948 For its growth the economy of Johannesburg depended upon hundreds of thousands of skilled white workers imported from Europe and semi and un skilled black workers imported from other parts of Southern Africa Though they worked together they were forced by the government to live separately Work was considered to be an exception to apartheid in order to keep Johannesburg functioning as South Africa s economic capital 39 Stuttafords department stores in Johannesburg in 1957 In the 1950s the government began a policy of building townships for black families prior to this unskilled workers were asked to work on single status in male only hostels at the mines and had to commute to see their families in whatever province they originated outside of Johannesburg to provide workers for Johannesburg 39 Soweto a township founded for black workers coming to work in the gold mines of Johannesburg was intended to house 50 000 people but soon was the home of ten times that number as thousands of unemployed rural blacks came to Johannesburg for employment and an income to send back to their villages 40 It was estimated that in 1989 the population of Soweto was equal to that of Johannesburg if not greater 40 In March 1960 Johannesburg witnessed widespread demonstrations against apartheid in response to the Sharpeville massacre 41 On 11 July 1963 the South African Police raided a house in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia where nine members of the banned African National Congress ANC were arrested on charges of planning sabotage Their arrest led to the famous Rivonia Trial 40 The nine arrested included one Indo South African one coloured two whites and five blacks one of whom was the future president Nelson Mandela 42 At their trial the accused freely admitted that they were guilty of what they were charged with namely of planning to blow up the hydro electric system of Johannesburg to shut down the gold mines but Mandela argued to the court that the ANC had tried non violent resistance to apartheid and failed leaving him with no other choice 42 The trial made Mandela into a national figure and a symbol of resistance to apartheid 42 Street scene in Johannesburg in 1970 On 16 June 1976 demonstrations broke out in Soweto over a government decree that black school children be educated in Afrikaans instead of English and after the police fired on the demonstrations rioting against apartheid began in Soweto and spread into the greater Johannesburg area 43 About 575 people the majority of whom were black were killed in the Soweto uprising of 1976 41 Between 1984 and 1986 South Africa was in turmoil as a series of nationwide protests strikes and riots took place against apartheid and the black townships around Johannesburg were scenes of some of the fiercest struggles between the police and anti apartheid demonstrators 44 The central area of the city underwent something of a decline in the 1980s and 1990s due to the high crime rate and when property speculators directed large amounts of capital into suburban shopping malls decentralised office parks and entertainment centres Sandton City was opened in 1973 followed by Rosebank Mall in 1976 and Eastgate in 1979 45 During the 1990s the city faced rapid growth of crime throughout large parts of the city Some areas of skyscrapers were abandoned many residents left their homes and businesses moved out Some historical buildings in central areas were destroyed by fires that spread relentlessly 46 21st century Edit Fans of South Africa national soccer team watching the 2010 FIFA World Cup with vuvuzelas in the township of Soweto a suburb of Johannesburg Like many cities around the world there is an increasing focus on the rejuvenation of the inner city of Johannesburg One of these initiatives is the Maboneng District located on the south eastern side of the CBD Originally a hub for art it has expanded to include restaurants entertainment venues and retail stores as well as accommodation and hotels Maboneng calls itself a place of inspiration a creative hub a place to do business a destination for visitors and a safe integrated community for residents A beacon of strength in Africa s most economically prosperous city 47 After being destroyed in 2008 to make way for a motor showroom by Imperial Holdings the iconic Rand Steam Laundries are now being redeveloped as an exact replica by the order of the Johannesburg Heritage Council Apart from one filtration shed there is nothing left on the site after being destroyed The site will consist of a 5 000 m2 54 000 sq ft precinct 48 49 On 12 May 2008 a series of riots started in the township of Alexandra in the north eastern part of Johannesburg when locals attacked migrants from Mozambique Malawi and Zimbabwe killing two people and injuring 40 others These riots sparked the xenophobic attacks of 2008 50 The 2019 Johannesburg riots were similar in nature and origin to the 2008 xenophobic riots 51 A completely refurbished Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup final Geography EditTopography Edit Satellite image of Johannesburg January 2008 Johannesburg aerial view looking towards the south east Johannesburg is located in the eastern plateau area of South Africa known as the Highveld at an elevation of 1 753 metres 5 751 ft The former Central Business District is located on the southern side of the prominent ridge called the Witwatersrand English White Water s Ridge and the terrain falls to the north and south By and large the Witwatersrand marks the watershed between the Limpopo and Vaal rivers as the northern part of the city is drained by the Jukskei River while the southern part of the city including most of the Central Business District is drained by the Klip River The north and west of the city has undulating hills while the eastern parts are flatter Johannesburg may not be built on a river or harbour but its streams contribute to two of southern Africa s mightiest rivers the Limpopo and the Orange Most of the springs from which many of these streams emanate are now covered in concrete and canalised accounting for the fact that the names of early farms in the area often end with fontein meaning spring in Afrikaans Braamfontein Rietfontein Zevenfontein Doornfontein Zandfontein and Randjesfontein are some examples When the first white settlers reached the area that is now Johannesburg they noticed the glistening rocks on the ridges running with trickles of water fed by the streams giving the area its name the Witwatersrand the ridge of white waters Another explanation is that the whiteness comes from the quartzite rock which has a particular sheen to it after rain 52 The site was not chosen for its streams however The main reasons the city was founded where it stands today was because of the gold Indeed the city once sat near massive amounts of gold given that at one point the Witwatersrand gold industry produced forty per cent of the planet s gold 53 Parks and gardens Edit Main article Johannesburg City Parks Johannesburg Botanical Garden Parks and gardens in Johannesburg are maintained by Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo 54 City Parks is also responsible for planting the city s many green trees making Johannesburg one of the greenest cities in the world It has been estimated that there are six million trees in the city with the number growing every year 1 2 million on pavements and sidewalks and a further 4 8 million in private gardens 55 City Parks continues to invest in planting trees particularly those previously disadvantaged areas of Johannesburg which were not positive beneficiaries of apartheid Johannesburg s urban planning Johannesburg Botanical Garden located in the suburb of Emmarentia is a popular recreational park Johannesburg and environs also offer various options to visitors wishing to view wildlife in addition to the Johannesburg Zoo one of the largest in South Africa The Lion Park nature reserve next to Lesedi Cultural Village is home to over 80 lions and various other game while the Krugersdorp Nature Reserve a 1500 ha game reserve is a forty minute drive from the city centre The De Wildt Cheetah Centre 56 in the Magaliesberg runs a successful breeding program for cheetah wild dog and other endangered species The Rhino amp Lion Nature Reserve 57 situated in the Cradle of Humankind on 1200 ha of the typical highveld of Gauteng also runs a breeding programme for endangered species including Bengal tigers Siberian tigers and the extremely rare white lion citation needed To the south 11 kilometres 6 8 miles from the city centre is the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve home to large mammals and hiking trails Climate Edit An aerial photograph of summer rain clouds over Johannesburg The city s climate experiences regular daily thunderstorms from November to March in the afternoons Johannesburg is situated on the highveld plateau and has a subtropical highland climate Koppen Cwb The city enjoys a sunny climate with the summer months October to April characterised by hot days followed by afternoon thundershowers and cool evenings and the winter months May to September by dry sunny days followed by cold nights 58 Temperatures in Johannesburg are usually fairly mild due to the city s high elevation with an average maximum daytime temperature in January of 25 6 C 78 1 F dropping to an average maximum of around 16 C 61 F in June The UV index for Johannesburg in summers is extreme often reaching 14 16 due to the high elevation and its location in the subtropics 59 Winter is the sunniest time of the year with mild days and cool nights dropping to 4 1 C 39 4 F in June and July The temperature occasionally drops to below freezing at night causing frost Snow is a rare occurrence with snowfall having been experienced in the twentieth century during May 1956 August 1962 June 1964 and September 1981 In the 21st century there was light sleet in 2006 as well as snow proper on 27 June 2007 accumulating up to 10 centimetres or 4 inches in the southern suburbs 60 and 7 August 2012 61 Regular cold fronts pass over in winter bringing very cold southerly winds but usually clear skies The annual average rainfall is 713 millimetres 28 1 in which is mostly concentrated in the summer months Infrequent showers occur through the course of the winter months The lowest nighttime minimum temperature ever recorded in Johannesburg is 8 2 C 17 2 F on 13 June 1979 The lowest daytime maximum temperature recorded is 1 5 C 34 7 F on 19 June 1964 62 Climate data for Johannesburg Averages 1961 1990 extremes 1951 1990 Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high C F 41 4 106 5 33 5 92 3 31 9 89 4 29 3 84 7 26 4 79 5 23 1 73 6 24 4 75 9 26 2 79 2 30 0 86 0 32 2 90 0 38 5 101 3 39 4 102 9 41 4 106 5 Mean maximum C F 30 2 86 4 29 1 84 4 28 0 82 4 25 5 77 9 23 0 73 4 20 4 68 7 21 1 70 0 24 4 75 9 28 4 83 1 29 4 84 9 29 5 85 1 29 8 85 6 31 4 88 5 Average high C F 25 6 78 1 25 1 77 2 24 0 75 2 21 1 70 0 18 9 66 0 16 0 60 8 16 7 62 1 19 4 66 9 22 8 73 0 23 8 74 8 24 2 75 6 25 2 77 4 21 9 71 4 Daily mean C F 19 5 67 1 19 0 66 2 18 0 64 4 15 3 59 5 12 6 54 7 9 6 49 3 10 0 50 0 12 5 54 5 15 9 60 6 17 1 62 8 17 9 64 2 19 0 66 2 15 5 59 9 Average low C F 14 7 58 5 14 1 57 4 13 1 55 6 10 3 50 5 7 2 45 0 4 1 39 4 4 1 39 4 6 2 43 2 9 3 48 7 11 2 52 2 12 7 54 9 13 9 57 0 10 1 50 2 Mean minimum C F 11 0 51 8 10 3 50 5 8 5 47 3 4 7 40 5 1 6 34 9 1 9 28 6 1 9 28 6 0 6 30 9 1 8 35 2 4 7 40 5 7 3 45 1 9 5 49 1 3 1 26 4 Record low C F 7 2 45 0 6 0 42 8 2 1 35 8 0 5 32 9 2 5 27 5 8 2 17 2 5 1 22 8 5 0 23 0 3 3 26 1 0 2 32 4 1 5 34 7 3 5 38 3 8 2 17 2 Average precipitation mm inches 125 4 9 90 3 5 91 3 6 54 2 1 13 0 5 9 0 4 4 0 2 6 0 2 27 1 1 72 2 8 117 4 6 105 4 1 713 28 1 Average precipitation days 0 1 mm 15 9 11 2 11 9 8 6 2 9 2 0 1 0 2 1 3 8 9 8 15 2 14 9 99 3Average relative humidity 69 70 68 65 56 53 49 46 47 56 65 66 59Mean monthly sunshine hours 250 1 224 8 238 8 236 9 276 0 266 9 283 9 284 1 280 8 269 5 248 7 263 9 3 124 4Mean daily daylight hours 13 6 13 0 12 2 11 5 10 8 10 5 10 7 11 2 12 0 12 7 13 4 13 8 12 1Average ultraviolet index 14 14 12 9 6 5 5 7 9 12 14 14 10Source 1 World Meteorological Organization 63 NOAA 64 Source 2 South African Weather Service 65 Weather Atlas 66 Demographics EditJohannesburg populationYearPop p a 18863 000 190499 052 21 44 1908180 687 16 22 19851 783 000 3 02 19901 898 000 1 26 20002 745 000 3 76 20013 326 055 21 17 20053 272 600 0 40 20114 474 829 5 35 Source 67 38 68 69 According to the 2011 South African National Census the population of Johannesburg is 4 434 827 people 69 making it the most populous city in South Africa it has been the most populous city in South Africa since at least the 1950s 70 71 From the 2001 census the people live in 1 006 930 formal households of which 86 have a flush or chemical toilet and 91 have refuse removed by the municipality at least once a week 81 of households have access to running water and 80 use electricity as the main source of energy 29 of Johannesburg residents stay in informal dwellings 72 66 of households are headed by one person Johannesburg s urban agglomeration spreads well beyond the administrative boundary of the municipality The population of the whole area has been estimated to be variously at 7 860 781 in 2011 by citypopulation de 7 or 9 115 000 in 2018 by Demographia for Johannesburg East Rand 41st highest in the world 73 The area of this urban agglomeration was put by Demographia to be 2 590 km2 31st largest in the world 73 Johannesburg s suburbs are the product of urban sprawl and are regionalised into north south east and west and they generally have different personalities 74 Greater Johannesburg consists of more than five hundred suburbs in an area covering more than two hundred square miles 520 square kilometres 53 Although black Africans can be found throughout Johannesburg and its surrounding area greater Johannesburg remains highly racially segregated 53 Within the Metropolitan Municipality the old centre established in 1886 and given city status in 1928 has been listed in recent censuses as a main place As of 2011 update this main place had a population of 957 441 and an area of 334 81 km2 75 76 77 Some authors consider the metropolitan area to include most of Gauteng province 78 The UN s Population Division in 2016 estimated the metropolitan area population to be 9 616 000 79 Blacks account for 73 of the population followed by whites at 18 coloureds at 6 and Asians at 4 42 of the population is under the age of 24 while 6 of the population is over 60 years of age 37 of city residents are unemployed 91 of the unemployed are Black African Women comprise 43 of the working population 19 of economically active adults work in wholesale and retail sectors 18 in financial real estate and business services 17 in the community social and personal services and 12 are in manufacturing Only 0 7 work in mining Religion Edit Dutch Reformed Church in Jeppestown 53 belong to mainstream Christian churches 24 are not affiliated with any organised religion 14 are members of African Independent Churches 3 are Muslim 1 are Jewish and 1 are Hindu Among the places of worship they are predominantly Christian churches and temples Serbian Orthodox church Zion Christian Church Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa Assemblies of God Baptist Union of Southern Africa Baptist World Alliance Methodist Church of Southern Africa World Methodist Council Anglican Church of Southern Africa Anglican Communion Presbyterian Church of Africa World Communion of Reformed Churches Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg Catholic Church and the Johannesburg South Africa Temple Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints 80 There are also Muslim mosques Hindu temples A Sikh Gurudwara Sikh Temple in Sandton and a large number of synagogues Languages Edit Geographical distribution of home languages in Johannesburg Afrikaans English Ndebele Xhosa Zulu Northern Sotho Sotho Tswana Venda Tsonga No language dominant 32 of Johannesburg residents speak Nguni languages at home 24 speak Sotho languages 18 speak English 7 speak Afrikaans and 6 speak Tshivenda 29 of adults have graduated from high school 14 have higher education University or Technical school 7 of residents are completely illiterate 15 have primary education Gender Population Female 473 148 49 42Male 484 293 50 58Race Population Black African 614 793 64 21White 133 379 13 93Coloured 133 029 13 89Asian 63 918 6 68Other 12 320 1 29First language Population 6 81 Zulu 1 022 747 23 41Sotho 420 117 9 61Xhosa 298 523 6 83Afrikaans 318 063 7 28Tswana 335 713 7 68Sepedi 317 277 7 26English 878 230 20 10Tsonga 287 625 6 58Swazi 35 926 0 82Venda 141 435 3 24Ndebele 126 587 2 90Other 168 566 3 86Sign language 18 793 0 43Education Edit The University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg has a well developed higher education system of both private and public universities Johannesburg is served by the public universities University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg University of Johannesburg was formed on 1 January 2005 when three separate universities and campuses Rand Afrikaans University Technikon Witwatersrand and the Johannesburg campuses of Vista University were merged The new university offers education primarily in English and Afrikaans although courses may be taken in any of South Africa s official languages The University of the Witwatersrand is one of the leading universities in Africa 82 and is famous as a centre of resistance to apartheid It is attached to the world s third largest hospital the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital located in Soweto The University of Pretoria s business school the Gordon Institute of Business Science is located in Illovo Johannesburg Many private colleges are also situated in Johannesburg such as Damelin 83 CTI 84 Lyceum College 85 and the South African campus 86 of Monash University six of the other campuses are in Australia while the eighth is in Malaysia as well as the Midrand Graduate Institute 87 which is located in Midrand Johannesburg also has one of several film schools in the country one of which has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Student Film in 2006 88 The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance or AFDA for short is situated in Auckland Park Johannesburg also has three teacher training colleges and a technical college There are numerous kindergartens primary schools and high schools in the region Economy Edit The Johannesburg Stock Exchange Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa producing 16 of South Africa s gross domestic product and accounts for 40 of Gauteng s economic activity citation needed In a 2008 survey conducted by Mastercard Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top cities in the world as a worldwide centre of commerce the only city in Africa 89 Mining was the foundation of the Witwatersrand s economy but its importance is gradually declining due to dwindling reserves and service and manufacturing industries have become more significant to the city s economy While gold mining no longer takes place within the city limits most mining companies still have their headquarters in Johannesburg The city s manufacturing industries extend across a range of areas and there is still a reliance on heavy industries including steel and cement plants The service and other industries include banking IT real estate transport broadcast and print media private health care transport and a vibrant leisure and consumer retail market citation needed Johannesburg has Africa s largest stock exchange the JSE although it has moved out of the central business district Due to its commercial role the city is the seat of the provincial government and the site of a number of government branch offices as well as consular offices and other institutions The Witwatersrand urban complex is a major consumer of water in a dry region Its continued economic and population growth has depended on schemes to divert water from other regions of South Africa and from the highlands of Lesotho the biggest of which is the Lesotho Highlands Water Project but additional sources will be needed early in the 21st century The container terminal at City Deep is known to be the largest dry port in the world citation needed with some 50 of cargo that arrives through the ports of Durban and Cape Town arriving in Johannesburg The City Deep area has been declared an IDZ industrial development zone by the Gauteng government citation needed Retail Edit See also Category Shopping centres in Johannesburg Sandton City shopping mall in Sandton Johannesburg Johannesburg s largest shopping centres measured by gross leasable area GLA the uniform measure of centre size as determined by the International Council of Shopping Centers are Sandton City Eastgate Mall of Africa Westgate and Cresta Melrose Arch is one of its most prestigious citation needed Other centres include Hyde Park Corner Rosebank Southgate The Glen Shopping Centre Johannesburg South and Clearwater Mall There were also plans to build a large shopping centre known as the Zonk Izizwe Shopping Resort in Midrand but these have been indefinitely delayed due to the opening of Mall of Africa Zonk Izizwe means All Nations in Zulu language indicating that the centre will cater to the city s diverse mix of peoples and races Also a complex named Greenstone in Modderfontein has been opened 90 Cradlestone Mall is a new mall named for its location which is close to the Cradle of Humankind a World Heritage Site Law and government EditGovernment Edit Main article City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality The seven regions of the city Upon the creation of the Metropolitan Municipality in 2000 the city was subdivided into eleven regions simply named Region 1 to Region 11 These were reorganized in 2006 into the current seven regions named alphabetically Region A to Region G as shown on the nearby map 91 As of 2006 update the seven regions are Region A Diepsloot Kya Sand Region B Randburg Rosebank Emmarentia Greenside Melville Northcliff Rosebank Parktown Parktown North Region C Roodepoort Constantia Kloof Northgate Region D Doornkop Soweto Dobsonville Protea Glen Region E Alexandra Wynberg Sandton Region F Inner City Region G Orange Farm Ennerdale Lenasia In the 2016 municipal elections the ruling party the ANC lost their majority in Johannesburg for the first time since taking power in 1994 claiming only 44 12 of the vote The Economic Freedom Fighters and Democratic Alliance both agreed to vote for the DA mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba who was sworn into power as the first Democratic Alliance mayor of Johannesburg on 22 August 2016 92 The ANC returned to the city s executive on 4 December 2019 following the election of its regional chair Geoff Makhubo to the mayoralty 93 Makhubo died on 9 July 2021 and Eunice Mgcina was appointed acting mayor 94 A new mayor Jolidee Matongo was elected unopposed on 10 August 2021 95 Matongo died in a car accident in September 2021 and Mpho Moerane was elected to succeed him 96 Crime Edit Officers of the South African Police Service with Vektor R5 rifles on parade in Johannesburg 2010 A shanty town in Soweto township After the Group Areas Act was scrapped in 1991 Johannesburg was affected by urban blight Thousands of poor black people who had been forbidden to live in the city proper moved into the city from surrounding black townships like Soweto and many immigrants from economically beleaguered and war torn African nations flooded into South Africa Many buildings were abandoned by landlords especially in high density areas such as Hillbrow Many corporations and institutions including the stock exchange moved their headquarters away from the city centre to suburbs like Sandton 97 Reviving the city centre is one of the main aims of the municipal government of Johannesburg Drastic measures have been taken to reduce crime in the city These measures include closed circuit television on street corners As of 11 December 2008 every street corner in Johannesburg central is under high tech CCTV surveillance 98 The CCTV system operated by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department JMPD is also able to detect stolen or hijacked vehicles by scanning the number plates of every vehicle travelling through the central business district CBD then comparing them to the eNaTIS database The JMPD claims that the average response time by police for crimes committed in the CBD is 60 seconds 98 Crime levels in Johannesburg have dropped as the economy has stabilised and begun to grow 99 Between 2001 and 2006 R9 billion US 1 2 billion has been invested in the city centre Further investment of around R10 billion US 1 5 billion is expected in the city centre alone by 2010 This excludes development directly associated with the 2010 FIFA World Cup 100 In an effort to prepare Johannesburg for the 2010 FIFA World Cup local government enlisted the help of Rudy Giuliani former Mayor of New York City to help bring down the crime rate as the opening and closing matches of the tournament were played in the city 101 Murders in the Johannesburg municipality amounted to 1 697 in 2007 according to the South African Medical Research Council a rate of 43 per 100 000 inhabitants 102 In 2016 that number had sharply declined to 29 4 per 100 000 inhabitants placing the murder rate at more than half of that of Cape Town and even below the national average 103 Culture EditJohannesburg is a cultural hub in South Africa 104 and has a wide variety of cultural venues making it a prominent area for many creative and cultural industries 104 Johannesburg is home to the National School of Arts The University of Witwatersrand s School of the Arts and the South African Ballet Theatre 104 105 as well as the Johannesburg Art Gallery 106 and other prominent cultural landmarks such as the Mary Fitzgerald Square 104 and numerous other museums theatres galleries and libraries 104 The Johannesburg City Library is located in the Central Business District of Johannesburg 107 Museums and galleries Edit Johannesburg Art Gallery Apartheid Museum Specialist museums cover subjects such as Africana costume design fossils geology military history medical pharmacy photography and transportation networks such as railways Gold Reef City a living museum was originally part of the Crown Mines Complex where gold was mined to a depth of 3 000 metres 9 800 ft The Market Theatre stages plays comedy shows and musical performances The following is a list of some of the museums and galleries that can be found in Johannesburg 108 AECI Dynamite Factory MuseumThe AECI Dynamite Factory Museum housed in the 1895 residence of a mining official records the history of explosives with particular emphasis on their use in the mining industry dd Adler Museum of MedicineHistory of Medicine brainchild of Dr Cyril Adler was formally inaugurated 1962 The museum s role was to collect and preserve for posterity all material that would illustrate the history of medicine in general and of South Africa in particular dd Apartheid Museum Constitution Hill Johannesburg Hector Pieterson Museum James Hall Transport Museum Johannesburg Art Gallery Madiba Freedom MuseumNamed after the former President Mandela s clan the museum s theme is Mzabalazo and charts South Africa s journey to democracy dd MuseuMAfricA Origins Centre MuseumLocated on the campus of the University of the Witwatersrand in Braamfontein 109 this museum contains some excellent examples of southern African rock art and the origins of humankind dd Bernberg Fashion MuseumBernberg Fashion Museum is primarily a museum collection consisting of objects and explains why and how clothing has changed and how the fashions of the past influence those of today dd South African National Museum of Military History Zoology MuseumThe Zoology Museum is the only natural history museum in Johannesburg which is unusual because all the other major cities in South Africa have large public natural history museums It has retained a unique character as the display specimens are exhibited in finely crafted teak cabinets which allow the viewer to engage directly with scores of objects at close range dd Entertainment and performing arts Edit Rise Against live in Johannesburg South Africa as part of RAMFest 2013 Johannesburg hosts many of South Africa s premier music events such as RAMFest s Johannesburg leg 110 111 112 113 In The City 114 and many international tours from bands and artists around the world 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 Several critically acclaimed musical acts come from Johannesburg such as Kongos Johnny Clegg Zebra amp Giraffe Man As Machine The Parlotones and ShortStraw The Joburg Theatre complex hosts drama opera and ballet Public art Edit Public art ranges from sculptures to murals to pieces by artists like William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx s Fire Walker Many pieces are developed through community workshops such as the Vilakazi Street sculptures Others are functional such as street furniture found in Hillbrow and the city centre citation needed As part of the Johannesburg Development Agency s JDA policy to make city areas desirable to potential investors the organisation has identified public art as a way to improve the urban experience of the city 123 The JDA spends 1 percent of all projects of over R10 million on public art 124 Architecture and urbanism Edit Main articles Architecture of Johannesburg and Suburbs of Johannesburg Trust Bank Building in 2018 Johannesburg Central Business District Johannesburg is home to some of Africa s tallest structures such as the Sentech Tower Hillbrow Tower the Carlton Centre and Ponte City Apartments The Johannesburg city skyline has most of the tallest buildings on the continent and contains most international organisations such as IBM Absa BHP Willis Group First National Bank Nedbank and Standard Bank Many of the city s older buildings have been demolished and more modern ones built in their place North of the CBD is Hillbrow the most densely populated residential area in southern Africa Northwest of the CBD is Braamfontein a secondary CBD housing many offices and business premises The CBD is predominated by four styles of architecture being Victorian Colonial Edwardian Baroque Art Deco and Modernism The city is often described as Africa s economic powerhouse and contentiously as a modern and prosperous African city 125 Johannesburg like many metropolises has more than one central business district CBD including but not limited to Sandton Rosebank and Roodepoort in addition to the original CBD Some tend to include Benoni and Germiston as well Due to its many different central districts Johannesburg would fall under the multiple nuclei model in human geography terms It is the hub of South Africa s commercial financial industrial and mining undertakings Johannesburg is part of a larger urban region It is closely linked with several other satellite towns Randburg and Sandton form part of the northern area The east and west ridges spread out from central Johannesburg The Central Business District covers an area of 6 square kilometres 2 sq mi It consists of closely packed skyscrapers such as the Carlton Centre Marble Towers Trust Bank Building Ponte City Apartments Southern Life Centre and 11 Diagonal Street Johannesburg s city centre retains its elements of a rectangular grid pattern that was first officially recorded in 1886 53 Streets are narrow and filled with high rises built in the mid to late 1900s Old Victorian era buildings first built in the late 1800s have been torn down long ago 53 The 1900s brought along with it the introduction of many different architectural styles and structures The Johannesburg Art Gallery and Supreme Court Building being two examples These were important Beaux Arts structures with the style put in place by at the time colonial parent the British Empire 53 South Africa didn t borrow architectural techniques exclusively from Britain however They were also inspired by American models and styles having built several structures like the ESKOM Building and the Corner House to emulate the prowess of New York City located in the United States 53 Panoramic view of the Johannesburg Central Business District Sports Edit Uruguay vs Ghana at the FNB Stadium during the 2010 FIFA World Cup Johannesburg s most popular sports by participation are association football cricket rugby union and running Early each Sunday morning tens of thousands of runners gather to take part in informal runs organised by several athletic clubs The city has several football clubs in the Premier Soccer League PSL and the National First Division In the PSL the top Johannesburg teams are all fierce rivals and include Kaizer Chiefs nicknamed Amakhosi Orlando Pirates nicknamed the Buccaneers Moroka Swallows and Wits University nicknamed the Clever Boys They are based at the city s FNB Orlando Dobsonville and Bidvest stadiums Several large scale league and cup games are played at Soccer City the venue of the 2010 FIFA World Cup final First Division teams are Jomo Cosmos and FC AK Katlehong City and Alexandra United play at Alexandra and Reiger Park stadium respectively Cricket is one of the more popular sports In cricket the Highveld Lions represent Johannesburg the rest of Gauteng as well as the North West at the Wanderers Stadium which was the venue for the 2003 Cricket World Cup Final in which Australia successfully defended their title against India Wanderers Stadium hosted what many cricket fans consider the greatest ever ODI match in which South Africa successfully chased down 434 runs They take part in the first class SuperSport Series the one day MTN Domestic Championship and the Twenty20 Ram Slam T20 Challenge Johannesburg also hosted matches from and the final of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 in which India beat Pakistan in the final The Lions formerly the Cats represent Johannesburg North West and Mpumalanga in the United Rugby Championship competition which includes teams from South Africa Ireland Italy Scotland and Wales The Golden Lions compete in the Currie Cup which they have won on ten occasions They are housed at Ellis Park Stadium which also hosted the IRB 1995 Rugby World Cup Final in which the South African Springboks defeated the New Zealand All Blacks The city s Ticketpro Dome and the Ellis Park Arena hosted two of the three NBA Africa Games 126 Infrastructure EditTransportation Edit Johannesburg is a young and sprawling city with its public transportation built in its infancy geared towards private motorists and lacks a convenient public transportation system The City though has invested a large percentage of its budget toward an effective integrated public transportation system A significant number of the city s residents are dependent on the city s informal minibus taxis citation needed Roads Edit Main article Johannesburg freeways The M1 is a major freeway in Johannesburg Johannesburg shares a network of metropolitan routes with Krugersdorp and Ekurhuleni The fact that Johannesburg is not near a large navigable body of water has meant that ground transportation has been the most important method of transporting people and goods in and out of the city One of Africa s most famous beltways or ring roads orbitals is the Johannesburg Ring Road The road is composed of three freeways that converge on the city forming an 80 kilometre 50 mi loop around it the N3 Eastern Bypass which links Johannesburg with Durban the N1 Western Bypass which links Johannesburg with Pretoria and Cape Town and the N12 Southern Bypass which links Johannesburg with eMalahleni and Kimberley The N3 was built exclusively with asphalt while the N12 and N1 sections were made with concrete hence the nickname given to the N1 Western Bypass The Concrete Highway In spite of being up to 12 lanes wide in some areas the Johannesburg Ring Road is frequently clogged with traffic The Gillooly s Interchange built on an old farm and the point at which the N3 Eastern Bypass and the R24 Airport Freeway intersect is the busiest interchange in the Southern Hemisphere 127 It is claimed 127 128 that the N1 is the busiest road in South Africa Johannesburg has the most freeways connected to it clarification needed It has the N1 N3 N12 N14 N17 R21 R24 and the R59 all leading to Johannesburg The M1 and M2 freeways were built to direct traffic towards the city centre These two freeways are congested due to mass urbanisation Bus and taxi transit Edit Rea Vaya bus stop in Johannesburg CBD in Commissioner Street at Ntemi Piliso Street Johannesburg is served by a bus fleet operated by Metrobus Archived 11 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine a corporate unit of the City of Johannesburg It has a fleet consisting of approximately 550 single and double decker buses plying 84 different routes in the city This total includes 200 modern buses 150 double deckers and 50 single deckers made by Volvo Scania AB and Marcopolo Brasa in 2002 Metrobus fleet carries approximately 20 million passengers per annum In addition there are a number of private bus operators though most focus on the inter city routes or on bus charters for touring groups The city s main bus terminus is situated in Gandhi Square where passengers can also obtain information regarding the Metrobus service from the walk in customer information desk In 2010 in order to create an efficient public transport system the Rea Vaya bus rapid system was developed built The buses run on their own dedicated bus lanes on the main trunk and complementary routes The buses also have large feeder routes that run on ordinary roads The Rea Vaya works on a smartcard payment system on entering the station or bus the passenger taps his her smartcard onto the validator scanner and taps out at the next station with the calculated amount The routes cover both the southern and northern suburbs with the main trunk route running from Soweto to Sandton and Rosebank and the feeder and complementary routes covering most of Johannesburg with the notable exceptions of Midrand and Centurion A subsequent expansion phase 1 C 1 D will cover these areas In 2017 the Rea Vaya bus rapid transit was recorded to be making huge losses recovering only about 40 per cent of the operating costs and relying heavily on government subsidies 129 Johannesburg has two kinds of taxis metered taxis and minibus taxis Unlike many cities metered taxis are not allowed to drive around the city looking for passengers and instead must be called and ordered to a destination The Gauteng Provincial Government has launched a new metered taxi programme in an attempt to increase the use of metered taxis in the city citation needed The minibus taxis are the de facto standard and essential form of transport for the majority of the population Since the 1980s the minibus taxi industry has been severely affected by turf wars 130 131 Airports Edit O R Tambo International Airport Johannesburg is served principally by O R Tambo International Airport formerly Johannesburg International Airport and before that Jan Smuts Airport for both domestic and international flights Lanseria Airport located to the north west of the city and closer to the business hub of Sandton is used for commercial flights to Cape Town Durban Port Elizabeth Botswana and Sun City Other airports include Rand Airport and Grand Central Airport Rand Airport located in Germiston is a small airfield used mostly for private aircraft and the home of South African Airways first Boeing 747 200 ZS SAN and also 747SP ZS SPC and now serves as an aviation museum Grand Central is located in Midrand and also caters to small private aircraft Rail Edit Metrorail Gauteng at Braamfontein Johannesburg The Metrorail Gauteng commuter rail system connects central Johannesburg to Soweto Pretoria and most of the satellite towns along the Witwatersrand The railways transport huge numbers of commuters every day However the Metrorail infrastructure was built in Johannesburg s infancy and covers only the older areas in the city s south The northern areas including the business districts of Sandton Midrand Randburg and Rosebank are served by the rapid rail link Gautrain Gautrain station at OR Tambo Airport A part of the Gauteng Provincial Government s Blue IQ Project Gautrain has made provision for a rapid rail link running north to south between Johannesburg and Pretoria and west to east between Sandton and the OR Tambo International Airport Construction of the Gautrain Rapid Rail started in October 2006 and was completed in June 2012 It consists of a number of underground stations as well as above ground stations Stations on the north south line include Johannesburg s Park Station underground Rosebank underground Sandton underground Marlboro above ground and raised Midrand Pretoria Station and Hatfield There is also a line from the O R Tambo International Airport above ground and raised travelling to Sandton via Rhodesfield raised and Marlboro A 200 kilometre expansion is underway and will consist of 3 new lines and 18 new stations and is expected to cost R18 billion and one lines Soweto Mamalodi could take 4 years to build most of the new stations will be in Johannesburg The east west line from the airport to Sandton opened in June 2010 in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup while the north south line opened on 2 August 2011 except for Park Station which opened in 2012 The rail system was designed to alleviate traffic on the N1 freeway between Johannesburg and Pretoria which records vehicle loads of up to 300 000 per week day 132 An extensive bus feeder system has also been implemented which allows access to the main stations from the outer suburbs but is limited to a five kilometre radius which neglects the rest of the suburbs This is the first new major railway system that has been laid in South Africa since 1977 133 In 2010 a high speed rail link was proposed between Johannesburg and Durban 134 In 2020 the government announced plans for high speed rail from Johannesburg to Soweto 135 Freight Edit City Deep Terminal is the name of Africa s largest dry port and was officially opened by the South African Railways Services SARS in 1977 The container terminal is connected to the Port of Durban Port of Ngqurha Port of Cape Town as well as Southern Africa by road and rail At least forty percent of container export imports run on the Natal Corridor Natcor which is directly linked by rail to City Deep Telecommunication Edit Johannesburg has 4 major cellular telecommunications operators Vodacom MTN Cell C and Telkom Mobile Vodacom s global headquarters is located in Midrand It was formed in 1994 just after the South African elections of 1994 136 Media Edit South African Broadcasting Corporation headquarters in Uitsaaisentrum Johannesburg The city is home to several media groups which own a number of newspaper and magazine titles The two main print media groups are Independent Newspapers and Naspers Media24 The country s electronic media is also headquartered in the greater metropolitan region Beeld is a leading Afrikaans newspaper for the city and the country citation needed while the Sunday newspaper City Press is the third largest selling newspaper in South Africa citation needed The Sowetan is one of a number of titles catering for the black market although in recent years it competes against newly arrived tabloids The Mail amp Guardian is an investigative liberal newspaper while The Citizen is a tabloid style paper and The Star is a local newspaper that mostly covers Gauteng related issues The Sunday Times is the most widely read national Sunday newspaper citation needed True Love is the most widely read women s magazine citation needed catering primarily to the up and coming middle class black female market and published by Media 24 The Times is a national newspaper that covers current issues citation needed Media ownership is relatively complicated with a number of cross shareholdings which have been rationalised in recent years resulting in the movement of some ownership into the hands of black shareholders This has been accompanied by a growth in black editorship and journalism citation needed Johannesburg has a number of regional radio stations such as 94 7 Highveld Stereo Radiokansel Radio Pulpit Kaya FM Radio 2000 YFM Metro FM 5FM Jacaranda FM SAfm Phalaphala FM Radio 702 and UJFM 137 The number of radio stations has increased in recent years as the 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