Q 01/05

What is Johannesburg's Zulu name, which refers to its founding mineral?

A) Tshwane

B) eThekwini

C) iGoli

D) Mangaung

Answer · why

C) iGoli

The city is also known colloquially as Jozi, Joburg or 'the City of Gold'; the Xhosa form is eGoli.

Q 02/05

Johannesburg is the capital of which South African province?

A) Free State

B) Mpumalanga

C) Limpopo

D) Gauteng

Answer · why

D) Gauteng

It is the country's wealthiest province, and the city alone produces 16 per cent of South Africa's GDP.

Q 03/05

Which of South Africa's highest institutions sits in Johannesburg?

A) Parliament

B) The Constitutional Court

C) The Supreme Court of Appeal

D) The Union Buildings

Answer · why

B) The Constitutional Court

Parliament sits in Cape Town and the executive in Pretoria; the Supreme Court of Appeal is in Bloemfontein.

Q 04/05

What was the population of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality at the 2022 census?

A) 4.8 million

B) 5.9 million

C) 7.1 million

D) 8.4 million

Answer · why

A) 4.8 million

The wider metropolitan area held about 15.1 million people, one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

Q 05/05

The name Soweto is an abbreviation of what?

A) Sotho Western Territory

B) Southern Workers' Town

C) South Western Townships

D) South West Transvaal Outskirts

Answer · why

C) South Western Townships

The collective name for the townships was chosen through a competition and officially adopted by the city council in 1963.