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Experience Johannesburg

When to Go

To residents, Johannesburg is a ghost town over the December holidays, when most leave for the seaside...

Top Reasons to Go

Cradle of Humankind. Visit the Sterkfontein Caves and Maropeng visitor centers at this World Heritage...

Great Itineraries

1 or 2 days: If you have only one day in Jo'burg, take a tour of Soweto, visit the Apartheid Museum...

Money and Safety

You can exchange currency at Johannesburg International Airport or at the larger branches of South Africa's...

Victorian Parktown

Parktown was once a gated community for the area's mining magnates, but most of its Victorian mansions...

Kwaito

Kwaito is a uniquely South African music genre, rooted in house, raga (a subgenre of reggae), hip-hop...

Mining Diamonds

Anyone can go to a jewelry store and bring home South African diamonds, but how many people can say they......

Posing on a Gold Mine Dump

In 1952 the young Dolly Rathebe, who was to become a jazz singing legend, and a young, white German photographer...

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