Social science (history⚠️)

• The Witwatersrand in the city of Johannesburg developed due to gold mining
• Gold discovered in Johannesburg


  1886
• Transvaal became a province of the white controlled Union of South Africa


  1910
• South Africa became a democratic country, and the names of provinces were changed


  1994
• Gauteng


  The new province that Johannesburg became part of
• Gauteng


  • South Africa's economic centre
  • Most heavily populated province
  • Smallest geographically
• Johannesburg was in the Boer Republic called "Transvaal" before 1910
• Transvaal was divided up, and Johannesburg became part of the new province of Gauteng in 1994
• The word 'Gauteng' comes from the Sotho language and means 'place of gold'
• Unit 11 is about the city of Johannesburg
• Activity 12 is to analyse source and recall information about before and after the Mineral Revolution
• Unit 9 is about Anti-Indian policies
• Unit 10 is about The Randlords and the Chamber of Mines, and Migrant workers