Gauteng Property
Gauteng, Place of Gold, in the heart of the Highveld is the smallest
of South Africaï's nine provinces, but it is the economic powerhouse
of the Southern African region and home to Africaï's greatest cities.
It is highly urbanised with an excellent infrastructure and has the second
largest population after Kwazulu Natal.
From the vibrant metropolis of Soweto, through dynamic Johannesburg
to the tree-lined diplomacy of Pretoria, Gauteng is a cosmopolitan, multi-cultural
mix of people from all walks of life, from all four corners of the world.
Gauteng's wealth is not only in its gold, but in its people. Its unique
cultural and social legacy is its multicultural melting pot, evidenced
in many excellent museums, theatres, galleries, cultural precincts and
craft markets.
It is the most industrialised province, the economic hub of South Africa
and also the gateway to all of Africa.
Its southern border is the Vaal River, which separates it from the Free
State, and it also borders on North West, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga.
It is not only the major urban centre of the northern part of the country
but the economic powerhouse of the entire country.
Its capital and largest city is Johannesburg.
Virtually continuous urban east and west extensions stretch through many
towns including Roodepoort and Krugersdorp on the west and Germiston,
Springs, Boksburg and Benoni on the east. This expansion is a result of
development along the immensely rich gold-bearing reef of the Witwatersrand.
Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, is 50km to the north
of Johannesburg and the important industrial and coal-mining towns of
Vereeniging and Vanderbiljpark about the same distance to the south, on
the Vaal.
In spite of its dense urbanisation and large industrial and business sectors,
Gauteng has significant agricultural land providing fruit, vegetables,
dairy products and meat to the cities as well as areas where maize, groundnuts,
sunflowers, cotton and sorghum are grown.
Like the rest of the interior this is a summer rainfall area. Summers
are hot and winters frosty but dry.
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