Witwatersrand Gold Rush Wikipedia
Explorer and prospector Jan Gerrit Bantjes () was the first and original discoverer of a Witwatersrand gold reef in June 1884 having prospected the area since the early 1880s, as well as cooperating the Kromdraai Gold Mine in 1883 to the NW of presentday Johannesburg together with his partner Johannes Stephanus Minnaar in an area known today as quot;The Cradle of Humankindquot;.