Analysis - Johannesburg was always a much photographed place from its earliest days. ... South Africa: A View of Johannesburg Through Lenses From a Different Era. 8 November 2018.

After gold first being discovered in the Witwatersrand basin in 1886, miners quickly established the city of Johannesburg, which explains why South Africa's commercial capital is the world's ...

Johannesburg, a city of around 4.4 million people, is a microcosm of South Africa, with immigrants and South Africans living in close quarters, and wealth and poverty only steps apart.

Johannesburg was built upon a reef of gold. The lustrous treasure pulses through the city’s veins — it’s what brought European prospectors to this part of South Africa in the late 19th century.