Gauteng province is the smallest province by land area in South Africa, but it is home to the largest share of the South African population. Approximately 15.1 million people call Gauteng their home, so expect multilingual communities. Many of them live in or around Johannesburg, one of the largest cities in South Africa, known as the place of gold.
Gauteng is also home to the largest township of its kind in South Africa, with the only street (Vilakazi Street) in the world where once two Nobel Peace Prize laureates lived, former South African President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Today, Nelson Mandela’s house is a museum, while the Tutu family maintained theirs as their residential home.
Another notable city in the province is Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, which houses the famous Union Buildings, the site of many important historical events for the country. It is also home to the Apartheid Museum as well as the Cradle Of Humankind, where the ancestors of modern humans first emerged. The province is mostly urban with many finance and business services, as well as manufacturing.