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Many history pundits disagree of the founding name of Johannesburg but all agreed that Jozi as it now fondly known as founded in 1886. Tired and wary colonists from the Cape of Good Hope made the arduous journey of over a 1000km’s in the hope of working the fields and finding gold to take back to loved ones in the Cape. Unknown to them was that the icy frost covered morning were far cry from the wet rainy season of the Cape.

As the population grew and those miner who came only equipped with tents and stayed on the outskirts of a now fast growing town, rudimentary shacks had given way to more established buildings and places like the stock exchange were founded 1887.

Life was rough and ready as any American gold rush town and fortunes were lost and found with alacrity. Gambling dens and houses of ill repute sprang up and more and traders began to establish themselves in the every growing hubbub of the Jo'burg city.

Much has changed from the rough and ready days of gold rush fever, and Jo'burg has matured into one of the most prosperous city in the southern hemisphere.