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The founding of Johannesburg, the first 13 years
1806
Sir John Barrow indicates on a map that gold is to be found in the approximate vicinity of either the Witwatersrand or the Magaliesberge.
1852
Gold is found near Krugersdorp.
1853
PJ Marais finds small quantities of alluvial gold in the Jukskei River. 1884 September, Fred Struben finds the Confidence Reef on the farm Wilgespruit north of present-day Roodepoort.
1886 12 April,
George Walker and George Harrison obtain permission to prospect for gold on the farm Langlaagte, owned by Gert C. Oosthuizen. 5 July, Prospecting licenses are taken out on 36 claims in the centre of Randjeslaagte.
24 July, Harrison signs an affidavit to Kruger announcing the discovery of payable gold on the Witwatersrand.
16 August, J.E De Villiers applies for post of Mining Commissioner and Claims Inspector. He also separately applies for the job of laying out a new mining village.
September, Captain Carl von Brandis is appointed Mining Commissioner for the Witwatersrand.
8 September, Public diggings are declared on the farms Driefontein, Elandsfontein, Turffontein, Langlaagte, Randjeslaagte, Roodepoort, Paardekraal and Vogelstrusfontein.
13 September, F.C Eloff, Presidential Private Secretary, is instructed to visit the goldfields.
14 September, The first large mining company on the Rand, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company Limited, better known as Knights, is formed with a capital of £210, 000.
14 September, Jos E. de Villiers completes a survey of Block B, Langlaagte on behalf of JB Robinson.
27 September, Von Brandis proclaims the farms Doornfontein and Turffontein as public diggings, and announces that a tender had been called for the setting out of 600 stands.
3 October , Mining Commissioner Von Brandis requests clarification from Pretoria as to the allocation of dwelling stands to miners on farms other than Randjeslaagte. The State Attorney advises that this is the task of the Mining Commissioner.
3 October, Mining Commissioner von Brandis writes to Pretoria confirming that the Surveyor General had sent him a plan of the stands to be laid out, and that the name of the village is to be Johannesburg.
4 October, Mining Commissioner Von Brandis announces that the survey of a new village is to proceed and that the plan would be made public once a copy had been received. Randjeslaagte is proclaimed as a village of stands. The name Johannesburg was used for the first time the previous day.
5 October, Tenders to survey the new mining village come before the Executive Council of the ZAR (Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek). The De Villiers tender for the setting out of 600 stands at 10s each is accepted. On the same day, Johann Rissik, Acting Surveyor General, issues De Villiers with a portion of the plan, including instructions that the government offices are to be located on one of the squares. Prospecting licences on 36 claims in the centre of Johannesburg are changed for diggers’s licences.
19 October, De Villiers begins the survey of stands on Randjeslaagte. The task is completed on 3 November, and a report is presented on
5 November. At this time his survey includes 748 stands in two consolidated areas north and south of the mining claims. By 8 December this number had increased to 986.
1 November, Petition is signed by HJ Morket and 100 others, objecting to sale of a stand on a preferential basis. 4 November, Von Brandis suggests that preferential rights to each stand be sold for 5 to 10 years with a monthly rental of 10s; Jan Eloff asks for a proclamation prohibiting digging on Randjeslaagte. He is told that he might put such a notice in his office, but could not take away licenses already paid for. A Special Landdrost is appointed for Johannesburg.
8 November, The election of the first Diggers’s Committee takes place.
9 November, The ZAR Government announces the sale of preferential rights to stands for 5 years. This is scheduled to take place on Thursday 18 November in front of the Mining Commissioners’s office.
17 November, Government abandons the sale of stands on a preferential basis and changes the condition to a 99-year lease. The sale of stands is postponed to Wednesday 8 December. 29 November, J.B Kaufman and 20 others peg claims on the site of the village and tender £21 to Jan Eloff, in payment for licenses to mine the site. They object to the sale of stands embracing any of these claims.
7 December, Government defines the area of Johannesburg as the entire area of ground formerly known as Randjeslaagte.
8 December, First sale of stands in Johannesburg, including No 469, purchased for £10.17.6. Subsequent stands went for £10.10 and after the first 25 had been sold, the stands about Market Square come up. At this point, the bidding begins to find its feet with TW Beckett of Pretoria paying £1065 for a block of five stands. Most stands go for between £200 and £280 each. Sales continue until the Friday by which stage some stands were fetching barely more than 3s each, with about 50 stands remaining unsold. All told, the proceeds of the sale realize about £13, 000.
13 December, P.J Meintjes, acting on behalf of the holders of the three amalgamated blocks of 12 claims each, which had formed themselves into a group called the “Randjeslaagte Syndicate”, writes to President Kruger pointing out that their property contains payable gold deposits. 23 December, The Mining Commissioner is instructed to issue trading licences for Johannesburg in same way as for other villages.
29 December, Meintjes proposes to the Government that the survey of the mining land should be on the same basis and scale as the two parts of the village on either side, with the same streets and at least two squares of the same size as the others.
27 January, Meintjes also proposes that the middle of the large square should be set aside for government, and that each church community be given a block of 12 stands each. The auctioneers are to be the Pretoria Auction Agency.
1886-1887 The first fuel and water shortages take place during this period. 1887 The original Diggers’s Committee is replaced by a concurrent Sanitary Board.
February, President Kruger visits Johannesburg for the first time. An official market is opened on Market Square. 18 January, Bok replies to Meintjes, agreeing to the appointment of the auctioneers, but stating that, in line with previous decisions, each religious denomination could only be granted one stand free of the payment of a stand license.
24 February, The first Johannesburg newspaper, The Diggers News, is published.
April, At the beginning of the month, WH Auret Pritchard prepares two plans for the central land, one for the auctioneer, the other for the Mining Commissioner.
April, the first telegraph office is opened in Johannesburg. 1 June, Second sale of land in Johannesburg takes place, on the site of the now-abandoned mining claims in the central city area, between Bree and Pritchard Streets, with a minimum price set at £1.10s per stand. July, the Johannesburg Waterworks Estate and Exploration Company Ltd is established with a capital of £40, 000.
17 October, The Eastern Star, later known as The Star, is first published in Johannesburg, having been relocated by its owners from Grahamstown. Today it is the only survivor of the mining camps’s early newspapers.
1888 The Johannesburg Lighting Company is formed, and the first telephones are installed on the Rand by Hubert Davies.
16 January, The first Johannesburg Exchange is opened by J.W Sauer.
15 March, The first Hospital Board is created.
23 June, Piped water delivery to homes is turned on for the first time.
1889 Shortages of food are only relieved after massive food deliveries take place from the coast.
23 March, Wandererss’s Club is founded. April, Sigmund Neumann obtains a concession from the ZAR Government to establish a tramway system network. June, The first postal pillar box is erected in Johannesburg.
1890 17 March, The rand steam train to Boksburg is inaugurated. Later on, this is extended to Krugersdorp in the west and to Springs in the east. May, Thethe MacArthur-Forrest cyanide process of gold extraction is introduced, thus which givesing a new lease of life to the gold mines, whose surface diggings had begun to run out..
November, The first Hospital building is opened by J.M.A Wolmarans, a member of the Executive Committee of the ZAR Volksraad.
1891 Six kilometres of tramway track are opened in Johannesburg with a terminus located in Fordsburg. The first units are horse-drawn, but are later replaced by electrically powered trams in 1906.
In July 1904, control of the Tramway Company passed to the Johannesburg Municipality.
16 May, First recorded fall of snow in Johannesburg.
28 May, A swarm of locust descended upon Johannesburg.
11 June, The first telephone line linking Johannesburg to Pretoria came into operation.
1892 23 June, The Johannesburg Gasworks, located at the lower end of President Street, begins production. This plant is in operation until 1920 when new works are completed at Cottesloe.
14 September, The first train from the Cape reaches Johannesburg.
1893 February, An outbreak of a smallpox epidemic affects those living in Johannesburg. The incidence of the disease increases steadily from April onwards and only begins to play itself out towards the end of the year.
1894 8 February, A bye-law is passed prohibiting ‘Nativess’ from using the Johannesburg city's pavements.
2 November, The railway line linking Johannesburg to Lourenco Marques (Maputo) was opened.
1895 13 March, The first Witwatersrand Agricultural Show was held in Johannesburg.
October, Severe water shortages are experienced from March onwards. Restrictions are imposed in Johannesburg on 23 October, and the drought is broken on 6 November.
16 December, The railway line linking Johannesburg to Durban is opened.
29 December, Jameson's raiders cross the Transvaal-Bechuanaland border. They are intercepted by Republican forces at Doornkop on 2 January 1896, and after a brief skirmish he, together with most of his troops, is taken prisoner.
1896 19 February, A shunting locomotive reverses into two railway trucks containing 1955 tons of dynamite on a siding in Braamfontein. The resultant explosion, later known as the ‘Great Dynamite Explosionss’, levels the nearby residential areas of Braamfontein, Vrededorp, Fordsburg and the Malay Location. May, The rinderpest epidemic, which affected livestock, spreads to Johannesburg, and its district is declared an infected area. This was followed soon after by a second plague of locusts.
November, The first house-to-house postal delivery service is instituted in Johannesburg.
1897 January, The first motorcar drives through Johannesburg, the Johannesburg Fort is opened and Nkosi Sikelel 'iAfrika is composed by Enoch Sontonga.
September, the Sanitary Board is replaced by a Town Council which, together with its Burgomaster, is nominated by the ZAR. Johannesburg is then raised to the status of a town.
1898 June 30, The new Rissik Street Post Office is opened.
1899 11 October, there is an outbreak of hostilities between Britain and the ZAR.
Johannesburg Timeline
1806
Sir John Barrow indicates on a map that gold is to be found in the approximate vicinity of either the Witwatersrand or the Magaliesberge.
1852
Gold is found near Krugersdorp.
1853
PJ Marais finds small quantities of alluvial gold in the Jukskei River. 1884 September, Fred Struben finds the Confidence Reef on the farm Wilgespruit north of present-day Roodepoort.
1886 12 April,
George Walker and George Harrison obtain permission to prospect for gold on the farm Langlaagte, owned by Gert C. Oosthuizen. 5 July, Prospecting licenses are taken out on 36 claims in the centre of Randjeslaagte.
24 July, Harrison signs an affidavit to Kruger announcing the discovery of payable gold on the Witwatersrand.
16 August, J.E De Villiers applies for post of Mining Commissioner and Claims Inspector. He also separately applies for the job of laying out a new mining village.
September, Captain Carl von Brandis is appointed Mining Commissioner for the Witwatersrand.
8 September, Public diggings are declared on the farms Driefontein, Elandsfontein, Turffontein, Langlaagte, Randjeslaagte, Roodepoort, Paardekraal and Vogelstrusfontein.
13 September, F.C Eloff, Presidential Private Secretary, is instructed to visit the goldfields.
14 September, The first large mining company on the Rand, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company Limited, better known as Knights, is formed with a capital of £210, 000.
14 September, Jos E. de Villiers completes a survey of Block B, Langlaagte on behalf of JB Robinson.
27 September, Von Brandis proclaims the farms Doornfontein and Turffontein as public diggings, and announces that a tender had been called for the setting out of 600 stands.
3 October , Mining Commissioner Von Brandis requests clarification from Pretoria as to the allocation of dwelling stands to miners on farms other than Randjeslaagte. The State Attorney advises that this is the task of the Mining Commissioner.
3 October, Mining Commissioner von Brandis writes to Pretoria confirming that the Surveyor General had sent him a plan of the stands to be laid out, and that the name of the village is to be Johannesburg.
4 October, Mining Commissioner Von Brandis announces that the survey of a new village is to proceed and that the plan would be made public once a copy had been received. Randjeslaagte is proclaimed as a village of stands. The name Johannesburg was used for the first time the previous day.
5 October, Tenders to survey the new mining village come before the Executive Council of the ZAR (Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek). The De Villiers tender for the setting out of 600 stands at 10s each is accepted. On the same day, Johann Rissik, Acting Surveyor General, issues De Villiers with a portion of the plan, including instructions that the government offices are to be located on one of the squares. Prospecting licences on 36 claims in the centre of Johannesburg are changed for diggers’s licences.
19 October, De Villiers begins the survey of stands on Randjeslaagte. The task is completed on 3 November, and a report is presented on
5 November. At this time his survey includes 748 stands in two consolidated areas north and south of the mining claims. By 8 December this number had increased to 986.
1 November, Petition is signed by HJ Morket and 100 others, objecting to sale of a stand on a preferential basis. 4 November, Von Brandis suggests that preferential rights to each stand be sold for 5 to 10 years with a monthly rental of 10s; Jan Eloff asks for a proclamation prohibiting digging on Randjeslaagte. He is told that he might put such a notice in his office, but could not take away licenses already paid for. A Special Landdrost is appointed for Johannesburg.
8 November, The election of the first Diggers’s Committee takes place.
9 November, The ZAR Government announces the sale of preferential rights to stands for 5 years. This is scheduled to take place on Thursday 18 November in front of the Mining Commissioners’s office.
17 November, Government abandons the sale of stands on a preferential basis and changes the condition to a 99-year lease. The sale of stands is postponed to Wednesday 8 December. 29 November, J.B Kaufman and 20 others peg claims on the site of the village and tender £21 to Jan Eloff, in payment for licenses to mine the site. They object to the sale of stands embracing any of these claims.
7 December, Government defines the area of Johannesburg as the entire area of ground formerly known as Randjeslaagte.
8 December, First sale of stands in Johannesburg, including No 469, purchased for £10.17.6. Subsequent stands went for £10.10 and after the first 25 had been sold, the stands about Market Square come up. At this point, the bidding begins to find its feet with TW Beckett of Pretoria paying £1065 for a block of five stands. Most stands go for between £200 and £280 each. Sales continue until the Friday by which stage some stands were fetching barely more than 3s each, with about 50 stands remaining unsold. All told, the proceeds of the sale realize about £13, 000.
13 December, P.J Meintjes, acting on behalf of the holders of the three amalgamated blocks of 12 claims each, which had formed themselves into a group called the “Randjeslaagte Syndicate”, writes to President Kruger pointing out that their property contains payable gold deposits. 23 December, The Mining Commissioner is instructed to issue trading licences for Johannesburg in same way as for other villages.
29 December, Meintjes proposes to the Government that the survey of the mining land should be on the same basis and scale as the two parts of the village on either side, with the same streets and at least two squares of the same size as the others.
27 January, Meintjes also proposes that the middle of the large square should be set aside for government, and that each church community be given a block of 12 stands each. The auctioneers are to be the Pretoria Auction Agency.
1886-1887 The first fuel and water shortages take place during this period. 1887 The original Diggers’s Committee is replaced by a concurrent Sanitary Board.
February, President Kruger visits Johannesburg for the first time. An official market is opened on Market Square. 18 January, Bok replies to Meintjes, agreeing to the appointment of the auctioneers, but stating that, in line with previous decisions, each religious denomination could only be granted one stand free of the payment of a stand license.
24 February, The first Johannesburg newspaper, The Diggers News, is published.
April, At the beginning of the month, WH Auret Pritchard prepares two plans for the central land, one for the auctioneer, the other for the Mining Commissioner.
April, the first telegraph office is opened in Johannesburg. 1 June, Second sale of land in Johannesburg takes place, on the site of the now-abandoned mining claims in the central city area, between Bree and Pritchard Streets, with a minimum price set at £1.10s per stand. July, the Johannesburg Waterworks Estate and Exploration Company Ltd is established with a capital of £40, 000.
17 October, The Eastern Star, later known as The Star, is first published in Johannesburg, having been relocated by its owners from Grahamstown. Today it is the only survivor of the mining camps’s early newspapers.
1888 The Johannesburg Lighting Company is formed, and the first telephones are installed on the Rand by Hubert Davies.
16 January, The first Johannesburg Exchange is opened by J.W Sauer.
15 March, The first Hospital Board is created.
23 June, Piped water delivery to homes is turned on for the first time.
1889 Shortages of food are only relieved after massive food deliveries take place from the coast.
23 March, Wandererss’s Club is founded. April, Sigmund Neumann obtains a concession from the ZAR Government to establish a tramway system network. June, The first postal pillar box is erected in Johannesburg.
1890 17 March, The rand steam train to Boksburg is inaugurated. Later on, this is extended to Krugersdorp in the west and to Springs in the east. May, Thethe MacArthur-Forrest cyanide process of gold extraction is introduced, thus which givesing a new lease of life to the gold mines, whose surface diggings had begun to run out..
November, The first Hospital building is opened by J.M.A Wolmarans, a member of the Executive Committee of the ZAR Volksraad.
1891 Six kilometres of tramway track are opened in Johannesburg with a terminus located in Fordsburg. The first units are horse-drawn, but are later replaced by electrically powered trams in 1906.
In July 1904, control of the Tramway Company passed to the Johannesburg Municipality.
16 May, First recorded fall of snow in Johannesburg.
28 May, A swarm of locust descended upon Johannesburg.
11 June, The first telephone line linking Johannesburg to Pretoria came into operation.
1892 23 June, The Johannesburg Gasworks, located at the lower end of President Street, begins production. This plant is in operation until 1920 when new works are completed at Cottesloe.
14 September, The first train from the Cape reaches Johannesburg.
1893 February, An outbreak of a smallpox epidemic affects those living in Johannesburg. The incidence of the disease increases steadily from April onwards and only begins to play itself out towards the end of the year.
1894 8 February, A bye-law is passed prohibiting ‘Nativess’ from using the Johannesburg city's pavements.
2 November, The railway line linking Johannesburg to Lourenco Marques (Maputo) was opened.
1895 13 March, The first Witwatersrand Agricultural Show was held in Johannesburg.
October, Severe water shortages are experienced from March onwards. Restrictions are imposed in Johannesburg on 23 October, and the drought is broken on 6 November.
16 December, The railway line linking Johannesburg to Durban is opened.
29 December, Jameson's raiders cross the Transvaal-Bechuanaland border. They are intercepted by Republican forces at Doornkop on 2 January 1896, and after a brief skirmish he, together with most of his troops, is taken prisoner.
1896 19 February, A shunting locomotive reverses into two railway trucks containing 1955 tons of dynamite on a siding in Braamfontein. The resultant explosion, later known as the ‘Great Dynamite Explosionss’, levels the nearby residential areas of Braamfontein, Vrededorp, Fordsburg and the Malay Location. May, The rinderpest epidemic, which affected livestock, spreads to Johannesburg, and its district is declared an infected area. This was followed soon after by a second plague of locusts.
November, The first house-to-house postal delivery service is instituted in Johannesburg.
1897 January, The first motorcar drives through Johannesburg, the Johannesburg Fort is opened and Nkosi Sikelel 'iAfrika is composed by Enoch Sontonga.
September, the Sanitary Board is replaced by a Town Council which, together with its Burgomaster, is nominated by the ZAR. Johannesburg is then raised to the status of a town.
1898 June 30, The new Rissik Street Post Office is opened.
1899 11 October, there is an outbreak of hostilities between Britain and the ZAR.
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1900
25 April, Johannesburg is shaken by a large explosion, as the local plant of Begbie's Iron Foundry is sabotaged. This is an important contributor to the Republican war effort.
31 May, Johannesburg surrenders to the British when Dr. Friederick Krause, Military Commandant of the Witwatersrand, hands the symbolic keys of the town to Field Marshal Lord Roberts. Dr Krause is also credited with preventing the destruction of the gold mines shortly before the British take-over.
1901
The first Town Council nominated under the interim British Military Administration takes office.
1902
31 May, A peace treaty is signed in Pretoria, officially bringing hostilities to an end.
22 September, The Rand Daily Mail is printed for the first time. A Sanitary Commission is appointed to investigate the area known as the "Brickfields". The area of Johannesburg increases from 5 to 75.5 square miles.
1903
May, the Rand Water Board is established. November, Elections are held for Johannesburg's first elected Municipal Council. The Johannesburg Insanitary Area Improvement Scheme Commission tables its report, which leads to the expropriation of the area now known as Newtown. The area of Johannesburg increases to 81.5 square miles.
1904
19 March, An outbreak of bubonic plague at the Johannesburg Brickfields leads to the removal of its residents to a sanitary camp at Klipspruit. In 1934, this area becomes known as Pimville.
22 June, The first indentured Chinese labourers arrive at the New Comet mine. July, Control of the Tramway Company passes to the Johannesburg Municipality.
1905
August, The Johannesburg Town Council imposes a speed limit of 10mph in the business centre. The Native Affairs Commission criticizes the living conditions that Johannesburg's Black citizens are forced to live under.
1906
Pass Laws for Indians are promulgated in the Transvaal.
14 February, Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams are replaced by electrically powered units. These run for the first time from Market Square to the Siemert Road railway bridge.
1907
20 February, Elections are held for the first Transvaal Parliament.
23 March, The worst locust plague in recorded times reaches Johannesburg.
1908
The Indigency Commission criticizes living conditions of Johannesburg's Black citizens.
1909
The Johannesburg Municipal Commission urges that surveyed land be made available to "natives and other non-Europeans".
1910 March, the last group of indentured Chinese miners are repatriated.
31 May, the Union of South Africa comes into being despite the strong objections of representatives of the Black community, as to their exclusion from constitutional proceedings.
1911
21 January, Johannesburg's tramway workers that report for the morning shift refuse to begin services. This is the first of many labour disputes which culminated in the General Strike of 1922.
1912
8 January, The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. It later changes its name to the African National Congress (ANC) 1913 May, White miners declare a strike at the New Kleinfontein mine. Industrial action spreads and by July the miners are preparing to declare a general strike.
4 July, A strike meeting is called in Market Square. The Government attempts to prohibit the gathering after it had begun and scuffles break out between police and miners. The police are severely assaulted after strikers attack them with stones. Workers then attempted to close down the tramways, the power station and the railways. Park Station is attacked and partly burnt down. The offices of The Star, a strongly pro-management newspaper, are similarly attacked and gutted by fire.
5 July, Unrest continues with minor clashes taking place at various points of the town's centre. By this stage, strikers are beginning to arm themselves and a number of shooting take place. Generals Botha and Smuts intervene personally and arrange for a truce, subsequent to which many of the strikers' demands were met.
1914
8 January, The Railwaymen's Union orders a strike. 9 January, An attempt at sabotage takes place on the Cape mail train.
13 January, A general strike is declared. The Union Government places the Johannesburg district under Martial Law.
15 January, Trade Union leaders and union members, who had gathered at the Union Hall, are surrounded by Government troops armed with a twelve-pounder field gun. The strike collapses and many of the leaders are forcibly placed aboard a mail-ship in Cape Town and illegally deported to Britain. None ever return to South Africa.
5 August, World War I breaks out.
12 October, Outbreak of the so-called "Boer Rebellion" takes place, and Union forces rapidly subdue the insurrection.
1915
26 January, Johannesburgss’s new Town Hall is used for the first time.
21 December, A strike of 2800 Black miners is held at the Van Rhyn Deep Mine.
1917
The Johannesburg Town Council rents a disused mine compound from the Salisbury Jubilee Mine. This is converted to a hostel for 1000 men, and later becomes known as the Mai Mai Bazaar.
1918
May, A bucket strike is held by Black sanitary workers. As a result, 152 strikers are arrested and sentenced to two months hard labour for breach of contract under the “Masters and Servants Act”. The ANC launches a labour campaign and threatens to organize a General Strike. Sanitary workers are released.
11 May, White municipal workers at the Johannesburg Power Station go on strike but their dispute is soon settled.
27 September, The outbreak of the Spanish influenza epidemic becomes critical. Beginning on the mines, it soon spreads to the whole city, and on 8 October alone there were been 69 burials at Brixton Cemetery. In Johannesburg, the Black community is particularly affected by this disease.
11 November, An armistice is signed in Europe, effectively bringing to an end World War I. The Western Native Township is established on a site previously used as a brickfield and a refuse dump.
1919
Some 70, 000 Black miners go on a peaceful strike. Government troops break up workers' meetings, killing 11 people.
1 February, White building trade workers go on strike.
29 March, *********** station workers go on strike. 31 March, White municipal workers went go on strike. The Johannesburg Town Council sets up a Provisional Board of Control dominated by the Labour Party and its sympathizers. This Board then takes over the effective running of the town's government.
1 April, The strike is called off.
6 April, A settlement of the strike is reached, and the Board of Control is passed out of existence.
1920
January, Black miners go on strike. Riots break out.
29 February, Black workers riot near Vrededorp.
4 May, White tramway workers go on strike. 21 May, The tramway strike ends.
1922
2 January, White coal miners go on strike.
9 January, White miners' strike is formally declared, following intermittent disputes in 1921.
19 January, Tramway service is reduced to minimum, following a shortage of coal supplies necessary for the running of the Johannesburg Power Station.
27 February, Coal supplies at the Johannesburg power station are exhausted. So-called ‘scabss’ coal is brought in and, as a result, *********** Station workers immediately down tools. Strike-breakers move in under police protection.
7 March, General Strike is called by workersss’ Council of Action. Unions march under banners proclaiming "Workers of the World Unite and Fight for a White South Africa".
9 March, Active Citizen's regiments and Burger commandos are called up.
10 March, Martial Law is declared. Attacks take place on Reef police stations and mines. Strikers ambush detachment of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment at Ellis Park, resulting in the death of 13 soldiers. Newlands and Fordsburg police stations are occupied by strikers' commandos.
12 March, Strikers on Brixton Ridge and in the Brixton School are shelled by Government troops located on Jan Smuts Avenue.
14 March, Fordsburg falls. Strike leaders Fisher and Spendiff commit suicide, and the Rand Rebellion is crushed.
17 March, the Strike is officially called off.
4 October, the University of the Witwatersrand is inaugurated.
1923
18 December, First official radio broadcast takes place in Johannesburg. The ‘Native (Urban Areas) Actss’ is passed, which forces local authorities to take responsibility for the housing of Black citizens who live and work in their areas.
1924
Work begins on extensions to the Western Native Township, involving an additional 1000 houses. This project is completed in 1927.
1925
22 June, The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, visits Johannesburg. Student hoaxers impersonate the Prince and his party, and visit the University.
1926
Work is begun on the Wemmer Barracks Hostel to accommodate 2000 men. This is completed in 1928. The Eastern Native Township is also established. 1927 The Johannesburg Town Council appoints Graham Ballenden as Manager of Native Affairs. Prior to this, the housing of the Black community had been a function of the town's Parks Department.
March, The first traffic light is installed in Johannesburg.
1928
5 September, Johannesburg is accorded city status. Johannesburg Council appoints a Committee to deal with Native Affairs.
1930
The number of houses built at Western and Eastern Townships reaches a total of 2625. In terms of an amendment to the ‘Native (Urban Areas) Actss’, additional powers are granted to Local Authorities in regard to the housing of Black residents. The Johannesburg City Council acquires 1300 morgen on the Farm Klipspruit No 8 for the purpose of building housing for Blacks. This purchase is made during the so-called ‘Depressionss’, when a number of houses at Western Native Township were still vacant. A competition is held for the planning of a township, to be named after the then Chairman of the Native Affairs Committee, Orlando Leake, to accommodate 80, 000 persons. At this time many Black residents were living in such places as Newclare, Sophiatown, Martindale and Prospect Township, in heavily overcrowded conditions.
1931
21 September, Britain abandons the gold standard, leading to a rise in the gold price.
1932
27 December, The Union of South Africa abandons the gold standard.
1933
Municipal water supply is provided to Newclare.
1934
Klipspruit Location is renamed Pimville.
1935
27 water taps are installed in Sophiatown where water is sold by the bucket. The Murray Thornton Commission criticizes Johannesburg's Public Health Department for its failure to prevent or remedy the "fearful squalor" in such areas as Prospect Township, the Malay Location, Sophiatown, Newclare and Martindale. By the end of this year, 3000 houses had been built in Orlando.
1937
9 April, Following the dramatic fall in the value of gold shares on the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange), many businesses and individuals go bankrupt. This day later comes to be known as "Black Friday".
1939
The total number of houses for Black residents provided by the Johannesburg City Council reaches 8700. A total of 6912 beds are also provided in Municipal single sex hostels.
6 September,
South Africa declares war on Germany, three days after Britain. During the next five years, influx control regulations are relaxed. Growing opportunities for work attract many rural Black families, including their children, to Johannesburg. Owing to a scarcity of funds, only 873 new houses are built and a further 358 beds are provided in hostels. As a result, informal settlements begin to spring up around Johannesburg. It is estimated that, eventually, up to 60, 000 people were housed in such areas. 1944 4042 breeze block shelters are erected in an area known as "Shantytown", located between Orlando East and Orlando West. 1946 The Moroka Emergency Camp is laid out, providing 11, 000 sites, 6x6m in size. Elementary services are also laid out.
12-19 August,
An estimated 100, 000 Black miners go on strike on the Witwatersrand. Hundreds are estimated to have been killed by subsequent police action.
1947
Attempts are made to close down Johannesburg's informal settlements. Baragwanath Hospital is taken over to serve the needs of the Black community.
1948
May, 1800 patients are moved to Baragwanath Hospital from the Johannesburg General Hospital.
The Nationalist Party (NP) gains a majority of seats in the Union Parliament, although it is not to achieve a majority of votes until the Republic referendum in 1961.
1949
19 September, The gold price rises by 44%.
1950
1 May, the ANC calls for a general strike. The police kill 18 persons in Alexandra.
1951
The Bantu Building Workers Act is passed.
1953
The ‘Bantu Services Levy Actss’ and the ‘Bantu Transport Services Levy Actss’ are passed. The Site and Service Scheme is started. In Johannesburg 35, 000 sites 12x21m each are surveyed. The Mentz Committee recommends that Pimville should be reserved as a "White Group Area".
1954
The Johannesburg Municipality creates the Housing Division as a separate department, with A.J Archibald as its first Director. Johannesburg submits an application to the Bantu Services Levy Fund for finances to build a direct access road to Soweto. The South African Railways which, at the time, held a monopoly on transport to this area opposed this application.
1955
A Resettlement Board is formed to undertake removal of Blacks from Johannesburg's western areas. This followed the Johannesburg City Councilss’s refusal to approve the removal of freehold land rights from property owners in Sophiatown.
February, over 60, 000 persons living in Johannesburg's western areas, including Sophiatown, are removed from their homes at gun-point, in a massive military-style operation, and are resettled in an area which has since become known as Soweto. Sophiatown is razed to the ground and, having been renamed Triomf, was given over to White, predominantly Afrikaner, low-income housing.
26 June, The Congress of the People meets at Kliptown and adopts the Freedom Charter.
1956
Johannesburg Mining Houses, headed by the Anglo-American Corporation, loans the Johannesburg City Council R6m to provide houses for people living in the Moroka and Shantytown informal settlements. These funds prove sufficient to build 14, 000 homes, and the residents of Moroka and Shantytown are subsequently resettled there.
1957
The ANC organizes the Alexandra Bus Boycott campaign.
15 September, Riots takes place in Dube.
1958
The Mentz "Watch-Dog" Committee is appointed. 1960 Minister De Wet Nel agrees to retain Pimville as a Black suburb.
21 March, Some 69 residents of Sharpeville, a Black residential suburb near Vereeniging are massacred by police during a PAC (Pan African Congress) protest meeting. The Tomlinson Commission is appointed. Its findings provide the intellectual and ideological underpinning for subsequent Nationalist attempts to implement a policy of ‘ethnic homelandsss’.
30 March, A nationwide State of Emergency declared. The ANC and PAC are banned.
1961
31 May, South Africa becomes a Republic.
1962
liquor becomes available legally to the Black community. :cheers:
1964
After years of prevarication, permission is finally granted for the construction of a direct access road to Soweto on condition that no public transport would be allowed upon it. This application had been pending for some 10 years. The Tomlinson Commission report is published.
1967
A second loan of R750, 000 is made by Johannesburg Mining Houses to the City Council, this time for the re-housing of Pimville tenants.
1968
The Bantu Administration Department rules that no further 30 year leases should be granted.
1973
1 July, the West Rand Administration Board takes over control and the day-to-day administration of Soweto from the Johannesburg City Council's Non-European Affairs Department (NEAD).
1976
16 June, School-children in Soweto go on strike, protesting the introduction of compulsory Afrikaans education. Over 1000 people are killed in the clashes which ensue between citizens and police.
1900
25 April, Johannesburg is shaken by a large explosion, as the local plant of Begbie's Iron Foundry is sabotaged. This is an important contributor to the Republican war effort.
31 May, Johannesburg surrenders to the British when Dr. Friederick Krause, Military Commandant of the Witwatersrand, hands the symbolic keys of the town to Field Marshal Lord Roberts. Dr Krause is also credited with preventing the destruction of the gold mines shortly before the British take-over.
1901
The first Town Council nominated under the interim British Military Administration takes office.
1902
31 May, A peace treaty is signed in Pretoria, officially bringing hostilities to an end.
22 September, The Rand Daily Mail is printed for the first time. A Sanitary Commission is appointed to investigate the area known as the "Brickfields". The area of Johannesburg increases from 5 to 75.5 square miles.
1903
May, the Rand Water Board is established. November, Elections are held for Johannesburg's first elected Municipal Council. The Johannesburg Insanitary Area Improvement Scheme Commission tables its report, which leads to the expropriation of the area now known as Newtown. The area of Johannesburg increases to 81.5 square miles.
1904
19 March, An outbreak of bubonic plague at the Johannesburg Brickfields leads to the removal of its residents to a sanitary camp at Klipspruit. In 1934, this area becomes known as Pimville.
22 June, The first indentured Chinese labourers arrive at the New Comet mine. July, Control of the Tramway Company passes to the Johannesburg Municipality.
1905
August, The Johannesburg Town Council imposes a speed limit of 10mph in the business centre. The Native Affairs Commission criticizes the living conditions that Johannesburg's Black citizens are forced to live under.
1906
Pass Laws for Indians are promulgated in the Transvaal.
14 February, Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams are replaced by electrically powered units. These run for the first time from Market Square to the Siemert Road railway bridge.
1907
20 February, Elections are held for the first Transvaal Parliament.
23 March, The worst locust plague in recorded times reaches Johannesburg.
1908
The Indigency Commission criticizes living conditions of Johannesburg's Black citizens.
1909
The Johannesburg Municipal Commission urges that surveyed land be made available to "natives and other non-Europeans".
1910 March, the last group of indentured Chinese miners are repatriated.
31 May, the Union of South Africa comes into being despite the strong objections of representatives of the Black community, as to their exclusion from constitutional proceedings.
1911
21 January, Johannesburg's tramway workers that report for the morning shift refuse to begin services. This is the first of many labour disputes which culminated in the General Strike of 1922.
1912
8 January, The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. It later changes its name to the African National Congress (ANC) 1913 May, White miners declare a strike at the New Kleinfontein mine. Industrial action spreads and by July the miners are preparing to declare a general strike.
4 July, A strike meeting is called in Market Square. The Government attempts to prohibit the gathering after it had begun and scuffles break out between police and miners. The police are severely assaulted after strikers attack them with stones. Workers then attempted to close down the tramways, the power station and the railways. Park Station is attacked and partly burnt down. The offices of The Star, a strongly pro-management newspaper, are similarly attacked and gutted by fire.
5 July, Unrest continues with minor clashes taking place at various points of the town's centre. By this stage, strikers are beginning to arm themselves and a number of shooting take place. Generals Botha and Smuts intervene personally and arrange for a truce, subsequent to which many of the strikers' demands were met.
1914
8 January, The Railwaymen's Union orders a strike. 9 January, An attempt at sabotage takes place on the Cape mail train.
13 January, A general strike is declared. The Union Government places the Johannesburg district under Martial Law.
15 January, Trade Union leaders and union members, who had gathered at the Union Hall, are surrounded by Government troops armed with a twelve-pounder field gun. The strike collapses and many of the leaders are forcibly placed aboard a mail-ship in Cape Town and illegally deported to Britain. None ever return to South Africa.
5 August, World War I breaks out.
12 October, Outbreak of the so-called "Boer Rebellion" takes place, and Union forces rapidly subdue the insurrection.
1915
26 January, Johannesburgss’s new Town Hall is used for the first time.
21 December, A strike of 2800 Black miners is held at the Van Rhyn Deep Mine.
1917
The Johannesburg Town Council rents a disused mine compound from the Salisbury Jubilee Mine. This is converted to a hostel for 1000 men, and later becomes known as the Mai Mai Bazaar.
1918
May, A bucket strike is held by Black sanitary workers. As a result, 152 strikers are arrested and sentenced to two months hard labour for breach of contract under the “Masters and Servants Act”. The ANC launches a labour campaign and threatens to organize a General Strike. Sanitary workers are released.
11 May, White municipal workers at the Johannesburg Power Station go on strike but their dispute is soon settled.
27 September, The outbreak of the Spanish influenza epidemic becomes critical. Beginning on the mines, it soon spreads to the whole city, and on 8 October alone there were been 69 burials at Brixton Cemetery. In Johannesburg, the Black community is particularly affected by this disease.
11 November, An armistice is signed in Europe, effectively bringing to an end World War I. The Western Native Township is established on a site previously used as a brickfield and a refuse dump.
1919
Some 70, 000 Black miners go on a peaceful strike. Government troops break up workers' meetings, killing 11 people.
1 February, White building trade workers go on strike.
29 March, *********** station workers go on strike. 31 March, White municipal workers went go on strike. The Johannesburg Town Council sets up a Provisional Board of Control dominated by the Labour Party and its sympathizers. This Board then takes over the effective running of the town's government.
1 April, The strike is called off.
6 April, A settlement of the strike is reached, and the Board of Control is passed out of existence.
1920
January, Black miners go on strike. Riots break out.
29 February, Black workers riot near Vrededorp.
4 May, White tramway workers go on strike. 21 May, The tramway strike ends.
1922
2 January, White coal miners go on strike.
9 January, White miners' strike is formally declared, following intermittent disputes in 1921.
19 January, Tramway service is reduced to minimum, following a shortage of coal supplies necessary for the running of the Johannesburg Power Station.
27 February, Coal supplies at the Johannesburg power station are exhausted. So-called ‘scabss’ coal is brought in and, as a result, *********** Station workers immediately down tools. Strike-breakers move in under police protection.
7 March, General Strike is called by workersss’ Council of Action. Unions march under banners proclaiming "Workers of the World Unite and Fight for a White South Africa".
9 March, Active Citizen's regiments and Burger commandos are called up.
10 March, Martial Law is declared. Attacks take place on Reef police stations and mines. Strikers ambush detachment of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment at Ellis Park, resulting in the death of 13 soldiers. Newlands and Fordsburg police stations are occupied by strikers' commandos.
12 March, Strikers on Brixton Ridge and in the Brixton School are shelled by Government troops located on Jan Smuts Avenue.
14 March, Fordsburg falls. Strike leaders Fisher and Spendiff commit suicide, and the Rand Rebellion is crushed.
17 March, the Strike is officially called off.
4 October, the University of the Witwatersrand is inaugurated.
1923
18 December, First official radio broadcast takes place in Johannesburg. The ‘Native (Urban Areas) Actss’ is passed, which forces local authorities to take responsibility for the housing of Black citizens who live and work in their areas.
1924
Work begins on extensions to the Western Native Township, involving an additional 1000 houses. This project is completed in 1927.
1925
22 June, The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, visits Johannesburg. Student hoaxers impersonate the Prince and his party, and visit the University.
1926
Work is begun on the Wemmer Barracks Hostel to accommodate 2000 men. This is completed in 1928. The Eastern Native Township is also established. 1927 The Johannesburg Town Council appoints Graham Ballenden as Manager of Native Affairs. Prior to this, the housing of the Black community had been a function of the town's Parks Department.
March, The first traffic light is installed in Johannesburg.
1928
5 September, Johannesburg is accorded city status. Johannesburg Council appoints a Committee to deal with Native Affairs.
1930
The number of houses built at Western and Eastern Townships reaches a total of 2625. In terms of an amendment to the ‘Native (Urban Areas) Actss’, additional powers are granted to Local Authorities in regard to the housing of Black residents. The Johannesburg City Council acquires 1300 morgen on the Farm Klipspruit No 8 for the purpose of building housing for Blacks. This purchase is made during the so-called ‘Depressionss’, when a number of houses at Western Native Township were still vacant. A competition is held for the planning of a township, to be named after the then Chairman of the Native Affairs Committee, Orlando Leake, to accommodate 80, 000 persons. At this time many Black residents were living in such places as Newclare, Sophiatown, Martindale and Prospect Township, in heavily overcrowded conditions.
1931
21 September, Britain abandons the gold standard, leading to a rise in the gold price.
1932
27 December, The Union of South Africa abandons the gold standard.
1933
Municipal water supply is provided to Newclare.
1934
Klipspruit Location is renamed Pimville.
1935
27 water taps are installed in Sophiatown where water is sold by the bucket. The Murray Thornton Commission criticizes Johannesburg's Public Health Department for its failure to prevent or remedy the "fearful squalor" in such areas as Prospect Township, the Malay Location, Sophiatown, Newclare and Martindale. By the end of this year, 3000 houses had been built in Orlando.
1937
9 April, Following the dramatic fall in the value of gold shares on the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange), many businesses and individuals go bankrupt. This day later comes to be known as "Black Friday".
1939
The total number of houses for Black residents provided by the Johannesburg City Council reaches 8700. A total of 6912 beds are also provided in Municipal single sex hostels.
6 September,
South Africa declares war on Germany, three days after Britain. During the next five years, influx control regulations are relaxed. Growing opportunities for work attract many rural Black families, including their children, to Johannesburg. Owing to a scarcity of funds, only 873 new houses are built and a further 358 beds are provided in hostels. As a result, informal settlements begin to spring up around Johannesburg. It is estimated that, eventually, up to 60, 000 people were housed in such areas. 1944 4042 breeze block shelters are erected in an area known as "Shantytown", located between Orlando East and Orlando West. 1946 The Moroka Emergency Camp is laid out, providing 11, 000 sites, 6x6m in size. Elementary services are also laid out.
12-19 August,
An estimated 100, 000 Black miners go on strike on the Witwatersrand. Hundreds are estimated to have been killed by subsequent police action.
1947
Attempts are made to close down Johannesburg's informal settlements. Baragwanath Hospital is taken over to serve the needs of the Black community.
1948
May, 1800 patients are moved to Baragwanath Hospital from the Johannesburg General Hospital.
The Nationalist Party (NP) gains a majority of seats in the Union Parliament, although it is not to achieve a majority of votes until the Republic referendum in 1961.
1949
19 September, The gold price rises by 44%.
1950
1 May, the ANC calls for a general strike. The police kill 18 persons in Alexandra.
1951
The Bantu Building Workers Act is passed.
1953
The ‘Bantu Services Levy Actss’ and the ‘Bantu Transport Services Levy Actss’ are passed. The Site and Service Scheme is started. In Johannesburg 35, 000 sites 12x21m each are surveyed. The Mentz Committee recommends that Pimville should be reserved as a "White Group Area".
1954
The Johannesburg Municipality creates the Housing Division as a separate department, with A.J Archibald as its first Director. Johannesburg submits an application to the Bantu Services Levy Fund for finances to build a direct access road to Soweto. The South African Railways which, at the time, held a monopoly on transport to this area opposed this application.
1955
A Resettlement Board is formed to undertake removal of Blacks from Johannesburg's western areas. This followed the Johannesburg City Councilss’s refusal to approve the removal of freehold land rights from property owners in Sophiatown.
February, over 60, 000 persons living in Johannesburg's western areas, including Sophiatown, are removed from their homes at gun-point, in a massive military-style operation, and are resettled in an area which has since become known as Soweto. Sophiatown is razed to the ground and, having been renamed Triomf, was given over to White, predominantly Afrikaner, low-income housing.
26 June, The Congress of the People meets at Kliptown and adopts the Freedom Charter.
1956
Johannesburg Mining Houses, headed by the Anglo-American Corporation, loans the Johannesburg City Council R6m to provide houses for people living in the Moroka and Shantytown informal settlements. These funds prove sufficient to build 14, 000 homes, and the residents of Moroka and Shantytown are subsequently resettled there.
1957
The ANC organizes the Alexandra Bus Boycott campaign.
15 September, Riots takes place in Dube.
1958
The Mentz "Watch-Dog" Committee is appointed. 1960 Minister De Wet Nel agrees to retain Pimville as a Black suburb.
21 March, Some 69 residents of Sharpeville, a Black residential suburb near Vereeniging are massacred by police during a PAC (Pan African Congress) protest meeting. The Tomlinson Commission is appointed. Its findings provide the intellectual and ideological underpinning for subsequent Nationalist attempts to implement a policy of ‘ethnic homelandsss’.
30 March, A nationwide State of Emergency declared. The ANC and PAC are banned.
1961
31 May, South Africa becomes a Republic.
1962
liquor becomes available legally to the Black community. :cheers:
1964
After years of prevarication, permission is finally granted for the construction of a direct access road to Soweto on condition that no public transport would be allowed upon it. This application had been pending for some 10 years. The Tomlinson Commission report is published.
1967
A second loan of R750, 000 is made by Johannesburg Mining Houses to the City Council, this time for the re-housing of Pimville tenants.
1968
The Bantu Administration Department rules that no further 30 year leases should be granted.
1973
1 July, the West Rand Administration Board takes over control and the day-to-day administration of Soweto from the Johannesburg City Council's Non-European Affairs Department (NEAD).
1976
16 June, School-children in Soweto go on strike, protesting the introduction of compulsory Afrikaans education. Over 1000 people are killed in the clashes which ensue between citizens and police.
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Origins of the name Johannesburg
In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria replied that Johannesburg was named after Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik and Christiaan Johannes Joubert - the only document dealing directly with the origin of the city's name. Some controversy exists concerning the origin of the name Johannesburg, as several men bearing the name Johann(es) occupied positions of authority in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR or Transvaal Republic) or were involved in events leading to the founding of the town. Rissik was principal clerk attached to the office of the surveyor-general of the ZAR, while Joubert was a member of the Volksraad and head of the government's office of mines. It was on the recommendation of these two men that the land involved was declared a public gold-field, while they also suggested the town to be laid out either on the farm Randjeslaagte (Randjieslaagte) or a section of the farm Doornfontein. Government authorities decided on the former place. Other evidence, notably a letter from the deputy secretary of foreign affairs to the Swiss consul, dated 18 February 1896, substantiates the claim that the town was named after these two men.
In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria replied that Johannesburg was named after Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik and Christiaan Johannes Joubert - the only document dealing directly with the origin of the city's name. Some controversy exists concerning the origin of the name Johannesburg, as several men bearing the name Johann(es) occupied positions of authority in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR or Transvaal Republic) or were involved in events leading to the founding of the town. Rissik was principal clerk attached to the office of the surveyor-general of the ZAR, while Joubert was a member of the Volksraad and head of the government's office of mines. It was on the recommendation of these two men that the land involved was declared a public gold-field, while they also suggested the town to be laid out either on the farm Randjeslaagte (Randjieslaagte) or a section of the farm Doornfontein. Government authorities decided on the former place. Other evidence, notably a letter from the deputy secretary of foreign affairs to the Swiss consul, dated 18 February 1896, substantiates the claim that the town was named after these two men.
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Race-course
The course was opened at the very dawn of the history of Johannesburg,
and racing constitutes one of the principal features of Johannesburg life.
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The course was opened at the very dawn of the history of Johannesburg,
and racing constitutes one of the principal features of Johannesburg life.
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The Wanderers
Old Wanderers was a cricket ground in Johannesburg. The ground hosted 22 Test matches from 1895 to 1939,
before being rebuilt as Johannesburg's Park Station in 1946. It has since been replaced by the nearby
New Wanderers Stadium.
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Old Wanderers was a cricket ground in Johannesburg. The ground hosted 22 Test matches from 1895 to 1939,
before being rebuilt as Johannesburg's Park Station in 1946. It has since been replaced by the nearby
New Wanderers Stadium.
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Yeoville
Yeoville was proclaimed as a suburb in 1890 (four years after the discovery of gold led to the founding of Johannesburg)
by Thomas Yeo Sherwell, who came from Yeovil in the United Kingdom. A very fashionable suburb of Johannesburg.
A good view of the town proper and the mines can be obtained from here.
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Yeoville was proclaimed as a suburb in 1890 (four years after the discovery of gold led to the founding of Johannesburg)
by Thomas Yeo Sherwell, who came from Yeovil in the United Kingdom. A very fashionable suburb of Johannesburg.
A good view of the town proper and the mines can be obtained from here.
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Parktown
In 1890 Edouard Lippert bought a substantial tract of the Braamfontein Farm. He rebuilt the farm house located on a ridge
and named it Marienhof after his wife, Marie. Today the suburb is home to many Victorian
and Edwardian homes, and a number of designs by Sir Herbert Baker.
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In 1890 Edouard Lippert bought a substantial tract of the Braamfontein Farm. He rebuilt the farm house located on a ridge
and named it Marienhof after his wife, Marie. Today the suburb is home to many Victorian
and Edwardian homes, and a number of designs by Sir Herbert Baker.
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Jouberts Park
Joubert Park was one of the first open spaces to be planned for Johannesburg's inner city. Proclaimed in 1906
but planned in 1887, it was named after a Boer military hero, Commandant-General PJ Joubert.
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Joubert Park was one of the first open spaces to be planned for Johannesburg's inner city. Proclaimed in 1906
but planned in 1887, it was named after a Boer military hero, Commandant-General PJ Joubert.
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Doornfontein
The oldest suburb of Johannesburg which was suburb was laid out in the late 1880s by Thomas Yeo, and became
the first residential suburb of Johannesburg. In 1897 the freehold of the suburb was bought by a company
owned by the mining magnate Barney Barnato, and the district became known as "Millionaire's Row".
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The oldest suburb of Johannesburg which was suburb was laid out in the late 1880s by Thomas Yeo, and became
the first residential suburb of Johannesburg. In 1897 the freehold of the suburb was bought by a company
owned by the mining magnate Barney Barnato, and the district became known as "Millionaire's Row".
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Market Square
JUST 118 years ago the Johannesburg CBD was flat, patchy grassland, interspersed with rocky outcrops and an occasional stream
and one or two farmhouses. Then gold was found in 1886 and a town was born,
taking its shape from the largest square in the country, market square.
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JUST 118 years ago the Johannesburg CBD was flat, patchy grassland, interspersed with rocky outcrops and an occasional stream
and one or two farmhouses. Then gold was found in 1886 and a town was born,
taking its shape from the largest square in the country, market square.
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Pritchard Street
This is another of Johannesburg's main thoroughfares, second only in importance to Commissioner Street,
and adorned with many fine shop-fronts, which would not disgrace Bond or Regent Streets (London).
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This is another of Johannesburg's main thoroughfares, second only in importance to Commissioner Street,
and adorned with many fine shop-fronts, which would not disgrace Bond or Regent Streets (London).
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