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Brakpan was a suburb of Benoni from 1914–1919, when it was granted municipal status. [ 2 ] : 286 The Brakpan miners were involved in the miners' strike of 1922 . The town has gradually lost its importance as a gold mining area as the surrounding mines suffered from low yield over high cost.
Benoni is situated towards the centre of the East Rand and lies on the urban fringe where the urban area dissolves into the smallholdings and farmland to the north. It borders on Kempton Park to the north-west, Boksburg to the west, Brakpan to the south and Daveyton to the east.
It intersects with the R29 in Benoni central and joins Range View Road southwards by way of a right turn at Mackenzie Park. Soon after, it becomes Heidelberg Road, bypassing Brakpan (co-signed with the M56 metropolitan route for a few metres), and crosses the N17 toll highway at Dalpark, next to where Carnival City is located.
The City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseKurhuleni; Afrikaans: Ekurhuleni Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Toropokgolo ya Ekurhuleni; Sotho: Masepala wa Toropohadi ya Ekurhuleni) is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of the East Rand region of Gauteng, a large suburban region east of Johannesburg.
He started importing medicinal and fancy goods and opened a wholesale chemist shop in Boksburg followed by a manufacturing plant in Standerton and as the needs of the population grew he opened more chemist shops in Van Rhyn, Springs, Benoni, Brakpan and Standerton. A distinction to his chain of shops was the monopoly he had for Zeiss Cameras.
The R29 is a provincial route in South Africa that connects Johannesburg with Leandra and Kinross via Germiston, Boksburg, Benoni and Springs.For much of its route it is named Main Reef Road. [1]
It borders Etwatwa to the north-east, Springs to the south and Benoni to the south-west. The nearest town is Benoni, which is approximately 18 kilometres away. Daveyton was established in 1952, and named after William Albert Davey, the Mayor of Benoni from 1951 to 1953. [2] Daveyton achieved municipal status in 1983. [3]
Nigel, Tsakane, Kwa-Thema, Brakpan, Benoni, Kempton Park Dunnottar Aerodrome Dr, Vlakfontein Rd, 12th Ave, Ergo Rd, Springs Rd (R554), Denne Rd, Goods St, Voortrekker Rd (M46), Prince George Ave, Main Reef Rd, Snake Rd, O'Reilly Merry St, Cecelia Nestadt Rd, Great North Rd, Van Riebeeck Rd