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Gauteng (PWV) Travel Guide

For many, Johannesburg, with its heady blend of first and third worlds, is the most exhilarating city in Africa. Sprawling outward from the center of Gauteng, South Africa's smallest and most densely populated province, it makes an ideal base from which to explore the animal-rich nature reserves that lie beyond its business-driven borders. But the city itself is a drawing card. This is, after all, the economic heart of Africa, where the continent's major financial deals are struck. It's a throbbing urban metropolis that is home to a socially vibrant and sassy new African elite, and to thousands more who congregate here from all over the continent in the hopes of finding their own elusive fortune. Read More

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