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C. With more than 10 million people in the metropolitan area, Johannesburg has a population more than twice as large as South Africa’s second-largest city Cape Town. Durban ranks third followed by Pretoria. While reservoirs serving Johannesburg are very low, the city also loses 40% of its water through leaky pipes.
B. The city became a boom town after the discovery of extremely large gold deposits attracted prospectors from around the world. The gold rush ultimately led to a war between the British who controlled Cape Town and the Dutch settlers, known as Boers, who controlled Johannesburg and the gold deposits.
A. Apartheid was a formal system of racial segregation imposed by South Africa’s white minority from 1948 until the early 1990s. Soweto is an abbreviation for South Western Townships that was coined in 1949 to describe the segregated “townships” created to house the city’s Black workforce.
B. Jakarta, Indonesia, has 34 million people living in its metropolitan region. Like Johannesburg, it has trouble supplying its population with clean water. The United Nations says that about 2.2 billion people worldwide don’t have access to safely managed drinking water.