FROM WHEELCHAIR NOMAD DIARY...2003 SS Johannesburg is the largest African city outside Cairo, It is 2,000 metres in elevation, gets its rainfall in summer from December and January, and is also the youngest African city, founded in a gold rush in 1884. Its also the most expensive. I told Richard a bit about the country, The population of South Africa is forty-two million, of which thirty-two million are black; five million are white, one million Indian, and the rest coloured. The Boers make up sixty percent of the white population and speak Afrikaans, their own language. There are about 25,000 Polish migrants here. Lily and I spent six weeks here in the 1980s, driving around with my parents and we had a wonderful holiday. We visited Kruger National Park and saw lots of wild game from elephants to lions. As we drove to our hotel, we noticed lots of angry blacks sitting around campfires besides the road, or begging at car windows, we kept the car doors locked and guessed that the unemployment rate here is high. Our hotel was on the corner of the R24 Freeway and Barbaraweg, in Kempton Park, about five kilometres from the airport, overlooking a mammoth complex of cooling towers for an electricity generating station
WOW..............PIGS ARE RUNNING AFRICA
cynd675 8 months ago
God you pronunciation is just awful.
swissnor 11 months ago
pronounciation is aweful, Jan Smuts you say 'Yun Smits', also its called So-WE-to, not so-wEE-to.
benbezuidenhout 1 year ago
its called pretoria bru, I refuse to use the communist name
RyanInternational011 2 years ago
You will have to correct your information bar to the right soon.
The Gauteng (JHB) region will be the 12th largest city in the world by 2015, making it a "global mega city" larger than Los Angeles.
This mega city will be created by the spill-over of the municipalities of Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Johannesburg into one another.
DubsWest 2 years ago