Johannesburg Johannesburg were destroyed and their people driven away during the wars emanating from Zululand during the late 18th and early 19th centuries (the mfecane or difaqane wars), and as a result, an offshoot of the Zulu kingdom, the Ndebele (often referred to as the Matabele, the name given them by the local Sotho–Tswana), set up a kingdom to the northwest of Johannesburg around modern-day Rustenburg. The main Witwatersrand gold reef was discovered in June 1884 on the farm Vogelstruisfontein by Jan Gerritse Bantjes that triggered the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the founding of Johannesburg in 1886. The discovery of gold
Frederick S. Pardee 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from the university. A year later, in 2014, he donated US$4 more million. Additionally, he has donated to the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the Frederick S. Pardee Library for the Future of Africa was named in his honor in 2009. Frederick S. Pardee Frederick S. Pardee (born 1932) is an American economist, real estate investor and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. An alumnus of Boston University, Fred Pardee has now become one of the largest donors to the University. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation from 1957 to