Population: 6.7 million
Temperature Range: 4 to 26
Average Precipitation High: 120-125 (Jan)
Average Precipitation Low: 5-10 (Jun-Aug)
Top 3 Singles:
1. "Turn The Tide"
by Sylver
2. "Sing" by Travis
3. "Get It Up" by
Ultra Nate
Top North American Single:
Music Info Source: 5fm 19-Aug-01
Currency Used: South African Rand (ZAR)
Major School: University of Witwatersrand
Place to Have Fun: Gold Reef City
- Capital of Gauteng Province
- Altitude of 5 740 ft
- Sun shines average 9 hrs a day in summer
- More than 7 hrs in winter
- Apartheid: policy of racial segregation followed in South Africa
- Introduced in 1948, no longer became legal in 1990
- But pushed the minority whites away to the suburbs
- Most township housing made up of cheap houses holding 12-15 people
- 2/3 of metro area pop. black, white ¼, rest are Coloured or
Asian, mainly Indian
- Christians of various denominations make up biggest religious group
- Homicide & other violent crime rates among highest in world
- Parks concentrated in mostly historically white areas
- Produces 40% of South Africa's gross domestic product
- Home of Johannesburg Stock Exchange, largest on continent
- No subway system
- Discovery of gold-bearing reef in March 1886 one of greatest gold
rushes every
- Founded same year
- 1887, 10 000 people looking for gold (half of them white, mainly
British)
- Literacy Rate: 82%
- Religion: 68% Christian, 2% Muslim, 1.5% Hindu, tradition & animistic
28.5%
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