Johannesburg was discovered in 1886, following the discovery of the main Witwatersrand gold reef, which today houses the world's deepest mine. The Witwatersrand, known locally as the Rand and ...

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 ...

Jews in Johannesburg, 1886–1914” (Ph.D. diss., University of London, 1985); Veronica Belling, “Recovering the Lives of South African Jewish Women during the Migration Years c. 1880–1939” (Ph.D. diss., ...