Johannesburg

is the most miasmal of African cities; greedy, harsh and angular, standing on the bleak uplands of the high veldt like an emblem of materialism, an unfailing confirmation of the traveller's preconceptions.

It is sad but fitting that the northern gateway of South Afr ica, that pariah among the nations, should be the swollen mining camp of Johannesburg, for she is the most miasmal of Afr ican cities. Greedy, harsh and angular, she stands on the bleak uplands of the high veldt like an emblem of materialism , an unfailing confirmat ion of the traveller's preconceptions. Ib id.

johannesburg, n.Definitions

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