The Transvaal, with places to visit throughout the area, sites to see and things to do while touring in this magnificent region of South Africa
Posts Tagged Gauteng
Gauteng is the smallest of the nine provinces of South Africa and was formed from part of the original Transvaal province. In April 1994 after the first all race elections took place and the province was divided up, after this division, the area that is now Gauteng was originally called Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging (PWV) but in December [...]
The Witwatersrand is a word in Afrikaans which means “The Ridge of white waters”. It is a range of hills in the Gauteng province South Africa that contains most of the worlds gold reserves. These rich gold bearing reefs stretch from 40 miles east of Johannesburg to 90 miles west and even further into the [...]
Soweto or South West Townships in Gauteng, South Africa which was once housing for black workers has now been developed and has some affluent housing as well.
Read about President F.W De Klerk’s early life and his political moves to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in South Africa
