Johannesburg Travel Guide Sightseeing Hotel Restaurant Shopping Highlights Author:Rebecca Kaye Johannesburg offers visitors the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of history-makers like Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu and to visit landmarks important in South Africa's road to social reform. The South African people refer to Johannesburg as Egoli, the City of Gold, given the gold mines that lie beneath the city and t... more »he Gold Rush that led to the city?s founding in the late 1800s.« less