Taking Stock: Johannesburg Stock Exchange, The First 100 Years By Margot Bryant

Taking Stock: Johannesburg Stock Exchange, The First 100 Years By Margot Bryant

Hardcover

ISBN 0868501433

Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers 1987

Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

Within 13 months of the discovery of the Witwatersrand goldfields, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange was established in a single-storey building in Simmonds Street. Although any man who could find the entrance fee of five guineas could join this rumbustious casino, it also attracted the progenitors of the gold mining industry. Their courage and faith in the future of deep-level mining laid the foundations for the emergence of Johannesburg as the most important financial centre on the African continent.