CHANGING NAME OF TOWN rand capital no longer 1 referred to as johannesburg so common Is the use of the term job burg now becoming that the original name of the rand seems threatened with suppression al ell together young as it Is tor for it Is only fifteen years old johannesburg has already made a great figure in his tory and the name has become famil lar all over the world it narrowly escaped being known as for the settlements on the new gold fields in 1887 was bound to be called after mr johannes the trans vaal surveyor general who brought it into existence for days it hung be tween the christian and surnames of the plodding boer doer surveyor but final ly was labeled with the former for long the officials and business people have used the term job burg just as they ud for elands but the newspapers are now adopting job burg