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National Geographic : 1977 Jun
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City that gold built. Johannesburg was born in 1886, when rich gold ore was dis covered here on the Witwatersrand Reef. Today the nation's biggest city is a nerve center for engineering, manufacturing, and communications as well. Reporters Helen Zille and Nat Serache confer with news editor Chris Day in the newsroom of the Rand Daily Mail (above). One of South Africa's most widely circulated English language papers, it employs both blacks and whites as reporters. A hub of learning and culture, the newly completed Rand Afrikaans University (right) in Johannesburg is one of eleven re served for whites. South Africa also main tains three universities for blacks, and one each for Coloureds and Asians. 806
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