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This is a young city. It is hard to believe there was nothing here until the discovery of gold in 1886, which sparked a mass migration of people from all over the world seeking to make their fortune in this chaotic new settlement. The population exploded and Johannesburg soon became the largest city in South Africa as well as the business capital.