Mountain View, Gauteng
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Mountain View is a suburb of
Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...
,
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.


History

The suburb is situated on part of an old
Witwatersrand The Witwatersrand () (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a , north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which ...
farm called ''Klipfontein''. It was established in 1902 and was named because of it view of the northern Magaliesberg mountains.


References

Johannesburg Region E {{Johannesburg-stub