Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa. When it first came about, it was just a small village that was controlled by a health committee in 1866. They had located themselves there because they had discovered a gold reef on the farm Langlaagte. From there, the population of the city kept growing rapidly, becoming a municipality in 1897. In 1928, it became a city, and is when it became the largest city in South Africa. In 2002, it joined ten other municipalities to form the city of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Today, it is the center for learning and entertaining for all of Africa. It is also the capital city of Gauteng.
After the Great Trek, Europeans also started to settle in the Transvaal. Each citizen was entitled to at least one farm, which was about 3,100 acres. The first discovery of gold was made in June 1884. Soon after that, other farms started to discover gold, and became famous as well. George Harrison is known as the man who discovered an outcrop of the main Reef of gold on the farm of Langlaagte in February, 1886. To this day, more than half of the worlds gold comes from South Africa.
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