EPISODE 04 · Johannesburg, South Africa · OPPORTUNITY SPOTTING
The City Built on What's Gone
18 minTHE FILM
Joburg rose out of the richest gold reef ever found, in a single generation. The gold is mostly gone now — so what is the city mining today?
eGoli, the City of Gold, was conjured out of the ground almost overnight and has spent the next century working out what to be once the ore ran thin. We move from the old mine dumps to the trading floors of Sandton to the fintech startups rewiring African finance, asking the question every boomtown eventually faces: when the thing that built you is gone, what do you dig for next?
IN THIS FILM
- 01
THE PLACE
Johannesburg — a metropolis with no river and no coast, built purely because the gold was here.
- 02
THE PEOPLE
The miner's grandchild, the trader, the founder turning a hard city's hustle into a business model.
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THE TECHNOLOGY
From deep-shaft mining to digital finance — the continent's money engine, re-tooled.
