Johannesburg, South Africa - general view - Artco real photo postcard c.1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Johannesburg, South Africa - probably real photo
• Publisher:  Artco / Art Publishers (Pty) Ltd., Durban
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Johannesburg (/d?o?'hæn?sb?rg/; Afrikaans: [jo'??n?sbœr?]) also known as Jozi, Joburg, Jolburg, Joni, eGoli or Joeys, abbreviated as JHB, is, by population, the largest city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa.^[7] The city is one of the 50 largest urban agglomerations in the world,^[8] and is also the world's largest city not situated on a river, lake, or coastline.^[9]

While Johannesburg is not one of South Africa's three capital cities, it is the seat of the Constitutional Court, which has the final word on interpretation of South Africa's constitution, and is the provincial capital of Gauteng. The city is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade, due to its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills.

According to the 2007 Community Survey, the population of the city of Johannesburg was 4,434,827 and the population of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area was 7,151,447.^[10] A broader definition of the Johannesburg metropolitan area, including Ekurhuleni, the West Rand, Soweto and Lenasia, has a population of 10,267,700.^[11] The municipal city's land area of 1,645 km² (635 sq mi) is very large when compared with that of other cities, resulting in a moderate population density of 2,364/km² (6,120/sq mi).

Johannesburg includes Soweto, which was a separate city from the late 1970s until the 1990s. Originally an acronym for ""SOuth-WEstern TOwnships"", Soweto originated as a collection of settlements on the outskirts of Johannesburg populated mostly by native African workers in the gold-mining industry. In 1985 Mr. Nigel Mandy (BA Law - CA), who was the first General Manager of the Carlton Centre, published a book called ""A City Divided"" - meaning Soweto and Johannesburg cities were divided from a fiscal point of view, were divided by law and people - he also assisted the Provincial Government of the old Transvaal as well as post 1994, in developing a process whereby Black, Coloured, Indian and White people could become homeowners previously deprived from ownership during the apartheid era. (Ronnie Stevens - Gauteng Human Settlements - 2014) Eventually incorporated into Johannesburg, the apartheid government (in power 1948–1994) separated Soweto from the rest of Johannesburg to make it an entirely black-residents area. The area called Lenasia has always been part of the City of Johannesburg. Lenasia is predominantly populated by those of English-speaking Indian ethnicity.

Controversy surrounds the origin of the name, as there were any number of people with the name ""Johannes"" who were involved in the early history of the city. Among them are the principal clerk attached to the office of the surveyor-general, Johannes Rissik, Christiaan Johannes Joubert, member of the Volksraad and the Republic's chief of mining, and Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic (ZAR). Rissik and Joubert were members of a delegation sent to England to attain mining rights for the area. Joubert had a park in the city named after him and Rissik Street is today a main street where the (historically important and dilapidated)^[12] since burnt out^[13] Post Office and City Hall are located.

type=real photographic (rp)

country/ region=south africa

period=post-war (1945 - present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100mm)