DAY 21 - JOHANNESBURG AND DRIVE TO HAZYVIEW
16 July  2004

 

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SOUTHERN AFRICA 2004 


JOHANNESBURG
Johannesburg or also known as Jo'burg has1.9 million inhabitants and is hereby the biggest city in South Africa. (If we add the inhabitants of Soweto, then it is about 4 million).
Johannesburg is the heart of the modern South Africa, and the sole reason for its existence is the gold reef of the 19th century. 
We had time only for a short visit (drive through), and our impression was that the city center is a kind of little Manhattan, and everything looked really awesome...!.

  

A Russian-looking church

A view of the town center (photographed through the windscreen)

Modern and high buildings in the downtown.


This snapshot (taken on a wide street) ... 
by chance the 'Department of Labour' is on the photo. 

Public transport looks well...

High modern office buildings.

This was a small demonstration, ladies/girls were carrying banners.

This was a typical 'smaller street'.

A modern statue: 
Three miners with a drill
- in Braamfontein

Other modern buildings..

An 'American-looking' bridge

Train station

Wide streets, nice cars... Lot of advertising...  A township (*) east from Jo'burg 
A funny road sign: 
'Selling of anything is prohibited here' 

 (*): In South Africa under the Apartheid Regime, a township was a residential development which confined non-whites 
     (Africans, "coloureds" and Indians)  who lived near or worked in white-only communities. The most well-known
      township is Soweto (South-Western township), which is today an overwhelmingly black-dominated city.

DRIVING TO EAST, TOWARDS HAZYVIEW
In Hazyview an apartment was reserved for us for one week.

Looks like an old mine (no more in use)

We are going to Ireland? Belfast was a small town... in SA.

Lush pine forest.

We were passing highvelds, at 2000 meters above sea level.

Sheeps were very funny-looking...

Suddenly we saw 'negative mountains'. We descended from the highveld, and the road was curving among hills.


A typical landscape...