Lady Selborne
| Lady Selborne | |||
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| Coordinates | 25 ° 41 '50 " S , 28 ° 7' 42" E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Gauteng | |||
| metropolis | City of Tshwane | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-GP | ||
| height | 1298 m | ||
| surface | 1.5 km² | ||
| Residents | 404 (2011) | ||
| density | 271.1 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1905 | ||
Lady Selborne is a district of Pretoria in the South African province of Gauteng . Even during apartheid, people of all population groups lived there until it was demolished.
geography
Lady Selborne is about eight kilometers northwest of central Pretoria. In 2011, 404 people lived there. The historic district of Lady Selborne also included parts of what is now the eastern district of Suiderberg. Lady Selborne is located immediately south of the Magaliesberg .
history
Lady Selborne was founded in 1905 on part of the Zandfontein Farm and named after the wife of Lord Selborne , who was then High Commissioner and Governor of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony . The namesake was a daughter of the British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil .
People of all population groups were able to purchase land in the district. In 1914, the Berlin Mission Society received permission to buy land there. From then on she was responsible for numerous social projects in Lady Selborne. In the same year the district fell to the Innesdale Village Council, from 1925 the Hercules Village Council was responsible, for which most residents, however, had no right to vote . In order to achieve city status, those in charge of the Hercules Village Council promised improved sanitation; instead, conditions worsened with rising fees, so that residents began to resist. In 1936, the Ministry of Native Affairs confirmed the property rights of the black homeowners in the neighborhood. In 1942 around 22,000 people lived there. The authorities tolerated the district until 1948, as cheap labor was quickly available there.
As of May 1949, Lady Selborne was administered by the Pretoria City Council to prepare for an eviction. At that time there were 1,952 registered owners there. However, the authorities encountered legal problems with their project because the ownership structure in Lady Selborne was not covered by the 1950 Group Areas Act . Meanwhile, the residents rebelled against the authorities, for example by supporting the Defiance Campaign in 1952. They received support from opposition groups such as the African National Congress , the Pan Africanist Congress , the Progressive Party and the Black Sash . Also when the 1955 Natives Urban Ares Amendment Act No. 16 had passed, the settlement could not yet be cleared. It was not until the Group Areas Amendment Act of 1956 and other provisions specifically enacted for Lady Selborne - which provided for evacuation in the event of possible health risks - from 1960 onwards that the apartheid government forced the demolition of the settlement, relocation to segregated residential areas and de facto expropriation the landowner. In 1961 Lady Selborne was declared a black spot in a "white" area, and in 1973 the last previous residents were forcibly relocated. Lady Selborne was integrated into the Suiderberg district . The streets were named after battles in which the Boers had won in the Second Boer War .
An extension of Suiderberg to the west should be named Suiderberg Extension One , but under public pressure it was named Extension New Lady Selbourne . In 2011 almost all black people lived there. In the population statistics, the settlement is referred to as Sub-place Lady Selborne .
traffic
The trunk road R80 , in this section John Vorster Road, bypasses the district to the west and south.
Personalities
- Potlako Leballo (1924–1986), politician, lived in Lady Selborne
- Can Themba (1924–1968/1969), writer and journalist, lived in Lady Selborne
- Arthur Maimane (1932-2005), journalist and writer, grew up in Lady Selborne
- Ernest Mothle (1941–2011), jazz musician, born in Lady Selborne
- Lucky Ranku (1941–2016), guitarist, born in Lady Selborne
- Vusi Mahlasela (* 1965), musician, born in Lady Selborne
Others
Sophiatown and District Six were other South African neighborhoods that were not segregated according to population group and were evicted.
literature
- John Sekalala Mojapelo: The corner people of Lady Selborne. Unisa Press, Pretoria 2009, ISBN 978-1-86888-560-2 .
Web links
- Material on Lady Selborne after a doctoral thesis at the University of Stellenbosch at sahistory.org.za (English)
- Description of John Sekalala Mojapelo: The corner of Lady Selborne people with pictures of Lady Selborne (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2011 census , accessed on March 24, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e Material on Lady Selborne based on a doctoral thesis at the University of Stellenbosch at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on March 26, 2015
- ↑ Overview of the book by John Sekalala Mojapelo: The corner people of Lady Selborne. at unisa.ac.za (English), accessed on March 25, 2015
- ↑ Book Description with photos of Lady Selborne ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 22, 2016
