The Next 100 Years - Johannesburg (1985)
PAST IMPERFECT, FUTURE TENSE
War, rebellion, depression, dispossession: Jo’burg has seen it all. It’s frightening yet exciting place in which to live, scarred as it is by a tumultuous past and beset by an un certain future.
An extract from the book:
Johannesburg is an accident of nature allied with human greed; the catastrophic forces that created the goldfields — a geological record spanning 3 000m years, the gold laid down in an inland sea, the whole land mass of the Reef uplifted and riven by volcanoes — have been matched by catastrophic human events.
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This is a modified extract from the following source: The Next 100 Years – Johannesburg, A Survey, A Supplement to Financial Mail, November 29 1985.
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