Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (S.Afr.) Johannesburg; thus Jewburger/Jewburgher, a rich Johannesburg merchant.

1903		Sun. Times (Perth) 9 Aug. 4/8: But of Jewburg swift and straight he did a sugar-doodle skip.
1905		Sun. Times (Perth) 11 June 4/7: Violinist hanged in Jew’burg last month.
1911		W. Butler Autobiog. 415: I had known in old days in Western America many mining centres, but Johannesburg, or Jewburg, as its denizens preferred to name it, was wholly different.
1937		C.P. Swart Supplement to Pettman 80: Jewburg a corruption of Jo’burg, humorously applied to Johannesburg where Jewry is well represented.
1943		J.L. Hodson War in the Sun 72: In the restaurant of my Jo’burg hotel (inevitably the word ‘Jewburg’ is used occasionally).
1954		A. Campbell Heart of Africa 196: White Rhodesians expressed only loathing for ‘Jewburg,’ the City of Mammon; the one ambition of most Rhodesian Negroes seemed to be to get there.
1980		(con. c.1900) J. Symons Blackheath Poisonings 287: A violent and barbarous city, so filled with Jews that people called it Jewburg.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1906		R.S. Sievier Autobiog. 163: Twenty years ago there were no Jewburg owners running horses on our English racecourses.
1999		(con. c.1900) B. Nasson S. Afr. War 258: Politically, it was the High Commissioner and his squalid bunch of ‘Jewburg’ capitalists who seemed intent on a continuing death roll.