
This is the Gauteng chapter from Lonely Planet's South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland guidebook, available to Pick & Mix.Tiny Gauteng is fast, bustling and a cabaret of contradictions. If you want to hit the cities, there's the friendly atmosphere of Pretoria or the sprawling boom of Johannesburg, but history heads will love the nearby Cradle of Humankind, one of the world's most important palaeontological sites.