Johannesburg

Johannesburg city has developed into an exciting blend combining a rich past of mine dumps, with the modern architecture contrasting with Indian bazaars and Traditional African medicine shops and healers - an exciting blend of ethnic and Western art and culture.

• Soweto - The city developed as a township for black people under the apartheid system and is now a living monument of the history of political struggle combined with the hopes and aspirations of a dynamic and multi-cultural community facing the challenges of transformation.
  
  
• The Apartheid Museum complex - Consisting of 22 separate exhibition areas that take the visitor through the history of apartheid in South Africa.
  
  
• Gold Reef City - Replicating Johannesburg in the 1880's and reflecting the history of the discovery of gold and the lifestyle of those who worked on the mines during the big gold rush.

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