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
Johannesburg Internet Exchange beyond its initial base of operations to additional locations within the metropolitan area. Johannesburg Internet Exchange JINX (Johannesburg Internet Exchange), located at Johannesburg, South Africa, is an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in South Africa. It is run by INX-ZA, which is an autonomous arm of the Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA). JINX started operating in 1996. The amount of traffic processed by the JINX has been steadily growing, and growth has been exponential in the second half of the 2000s (decade), with, for example, 450 Mbps peak-hour load in 2008 that almost doubled to 800 Mbit/s in