The discovery of gold in Johannesburg in 1886 attracted migrants from all over southern Africa and many other parts of the world.
This exhibit illustrates the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of some of those who journeyed to the city of gold in the years following 1886. Together they made up a diverse and often racially mixed community. It was this racial mixing that segregation and apartheid were designed to prevent.
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