Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) Johannesburg.

1948		in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu 24: They say he will come back [...] That he will return, her lover, from Goli. [...] It is about a man who is courting a girl whose original lover is away working in ‘Goli’ (Johannesburg).
1970		H. Kuper Witch in my Heart I iii: ntamo: Where are you going? sikova: To the place where the money is – to Goli.