Journey through Jo’burg

Black men’s wheels, break my windows — confronting words, even in jest, and enough to goad white South Africa to barricade itself behind high walls and razor wire, securing Johannesburg’s most privileged shops and corporate offices inside a gilded ghetto called Sandton, writes PHILIP GAME. 

The former Witwatersrand, Gauteng or Place of Gold in the Sotho language, is South Africa’s smallest but wealthiest province, founded on the world’s richest reef of gold. Its capital, Johannesburg, is the economic hub of all South Africa, and the city sprawls right up to the outskirts of Pretoria, where the Boer war dead are buried.