Paarlshoop is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 4 km west of City Hall.

Paarlkamp was built on Langlaagte farm, where the main gold vein was found in June 1886.

The State Secretary of the South African Republic confirmed that this was not the government's concern, since the land was private.

Paarlshoop - literally "Paarl's hope" - thus became a heavily Afrikaner town, the first city built on the Rand, since the sites were surveyed in front of Randjeslaagte.

By the end of September 1886, the camp had already swollen to a population of 100, and in October it housed a butcher, bakery, smithy, and a general store.