“Morning traffic in Johannesburg is like the democratic process…” Lauren Buekes

 Oliver Reginald Tambo International Airport, like the city of Johannesburg, seems to be in permanent mutation.  Inaugurated in 1952, the largest airport in Africa has the capacity to handle up to 28 million passengers a year.

Originally, it was named after Jan Smuts, the prime minister who persuaded the British to give dominion status to South Africa. In 1994, the complex was renamed Johannesburg International Airport. In 2006, it became O.R Tambo International Airport after the former ANC leader.

Johannesburg (Joburg, for short) was started from a farm, in 1886, as a labor city for gold miners.  Its namesake was never clearly established. The city has been twined with Accra, London, New York, Taipei, etc.

 

Johannesburg has been the engine that drives the recent history of South Africa.  It is also the economic powerhouse of the republic. Not only, it produced the gold and diamond that made South Africa rich, it also hosted the major developments of the anti-apartheid movement that beget today’s democratic South Africa.

 

It is in Gauteng, one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Greater Johannesburg is a sprawling metropolis that boasts a population of more than 9 million, comparable to the entire population of Haiti, Sweden, or Portugal.

 

In post-Apartheid, many whites left the city center. They fled mainly to Pretoria or Cape Town. Businesses that could not afford leaving Joburg, relocated in more tranquil and upper scale neighborhoods such as Sandton and Rosebank.  As a result, crime is now a serious problem in these destitute areas, repopulated by illicit businesses and run by drug lords.

 

Township is not a synonym for slum. Around the original city, were erected more than20 townships. Some townships are ghettos, others are socially gated affluent communities.

 

Johannesburg has remained a magnet for job seekers. It hosts a large percentage of the undocumented workers from neighboring countries, such as Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe, or from far away places such as Nigeria.  The migrant pressure has recently erupted into episodes of street violence.

 

Johannesburg is an obligate stop for all visitors in South Africa.  Beside its historical buildings and venues, it offers among the best conveniences of South Africa: many malls, restaurants and hotels. A tourist will have the opportunity to visit the Craddle of Humankind, many museums, Gold Reef City, the Apartheid Museum, Soweto, multiple galleries…  And, guess what? It is never too cold or too hot in the City of Gold.

 

(The Traveller, Thursday, October 6, 2017)

 

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