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The South African postal code system was previously used in Namibia, then "South West Africa", including the enclave of Walvis Bay, which remained part of South Africa until 1994. It was allocated the number range 9000–9299. [6] Following independence, use of the South African postal code system was discontinued. [7]
This was the only town in the Cape in which such land with full title deeds, water rights and grazing rights was for sale to anyone. In the 1860s, Herbert married a young girl of British stock named Elizabeth Belshaw – 27 years his junior.
Land remained as a farm and by 1891 it was divided, along what is now Orange Road, between his son's Frans and Louw where the brothers had already built two farm houses. [2] Louw Geldenhuys died in 1929 and his wife Emmarentia would begin to sell parts of the farm that became the surrounding suburbs, one of which became Greenside on 4 February ...
Wattville is a township south of Benoni in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1941, and by 1948, 400 houses were built on 34 hectares. After 1948, building stopped as it was threatened with destruction. This was because it was considered too close to a white town.
Houghton Estate has traditionally been informally divided into two areas: Upper Houghton, and Lower Houghton. [10] Upper Houghton is the southern and south-eastern portion located on a ridge, while the northern Lower Houghton is flatter, and has a grid street pattern, with parts on both sides of the M1 freeway.
Because the township was proclaimed before the South African 1913 Land Act, it was one of the few urban areas in the country where black people could own land under a freehold title. [8] By 1916, the population of Alexandra had grown to 30,000 people. [8] The Alexandra Health Committee was established to manage the township.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa defended itself on Monday against attacks on its land confiscation policy by Donald Trump and his South African-born billionaire backer Elon Musk after the U.S ...
Long before the district came to be called Fourways, it was a 245-hectare (605-acre) residence and game farm owned by the Eriksen family. The residence they built here in the early 1940s was named Norscot Manor [3] (after their nationalities 'Nor'wegian and 'Scot'tish).