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Tourism
Johannesburg has not traditionally been known as a tourist destination, but the
city is a transit point for connecting flights to Cape Town, Durban, and the
Kruger National Park. Consequently, most international visitors to South Africa
pass through Johannesburg at least once, which has led to the development of
more attractions for tourists. Recent additions have centred around history
museums, such as the Apartheid Museum and the Hector Pieterson Museum. Gold Reef
City, a large amusement park to the south of the Central Business District, is
also a large draw for tourists in the city. The Johannesburg Zoo is also one of
the largest in South Africa.
The city also has several art museums, such as the Johannesburg Art Gallery,
which featured South African and European landscape and figurative paintings.
The Museum Africa covers the history of the city of Johannesburg, as well as
housing a large collection of rock art. The Market Theatre complex attained
notoriety in the 1970s and 1980s by staging anti-apartheid plays, and has now
become a centre for modern South African playwriting.
There is also a large industry around visiting former townships, such as Soweto
and Alexandra. Most visitors to Soweto go to see the Mandela Museum, which is
located in the former home of Nelson Mandela.
The Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site is 25 kilometres to the
northwest of the city. The Sterkfontein fossil site is famous for being the
world's richest hominid site and produced the first adult Australopithecus
africanus and the first near-complete skeleton of an early Australopithecine.
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