Marabastad
| Marabastad / Asiatic Bazaar |
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| Coordinates | 25 ° 44 '27 " S , 28 ° 10' 33" E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Gauteng | |||
| metropolis | City of Tshwane | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-GP | ||
| height | 1304 m | ||
| surface | 0.6 km² | ||
| Residents | 339 (2011) | ||
| density | 594.7 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 19th century | ||
Marabastad (also Asiatic Bazaar ) is a district of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in the South African province of Gauteng . It was one of the few ethnically mixed districts in South Africa until the 1940s and today, in a reduced location, is a business district in Pretoria .
geography
Marabastad is about three kilometers northwest of downtown Pretoria. In 2011 there were 339 residents.
history
The village of Maraba was founded immediately south of what is now the district of Maraba, a local ruler of the Ndebele . In 1888 the place was declared a municipality under the name Marabastad ("City of Maraba"). It lay between the rivers Apies River in the north, Steenhoven Spruit in the east and Skinner Spruit in the west and De Korte Street in the south. The residents were not allowed to buy land, but built their own houses. After the Second Boer War , the New Marabastad district was built between Marabastad and the Asiatic Bazaar . In 1906 both parts of the city were combined as Marabastad . One of the buildings is the Hindu Mariamman Temple, built in 1905 and dedicated to the Hindu goddess Mariamman . After the decision was made to build a sewage treatment plant on the site of the original settlement, the residents there had to move. By 1920, the old Marabastad settlement was demolished.
Before and after the Group Areas Act was passed , most of the residents were evicted from the district. The black residents were relocated to Atteridgeville from 1945 to 1950 , the Coloreds to Eersterus and the Indians to Laudium.
In the early 1960s, the forerunner of the Mamelodi Sundowns football club was founded in Marabastad.
The Marabi music style is possibly named after the district .
Transport and other infrastructure
Marabastad is connected to National Route 4 in the south . The Motorways M1 and M22 also lead to Marabastad.
The Belle Ombre station is north of the district at the end of a short branch line and is served by the Gauteng Metrorail trains.
Personalities
- Ezekiel Mphahlele (1919–2008), writer, born in Marabastad
- Can Themba (1924–1968/1969), writer, born in Marabastad
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Portrait of the Mariamman Temple in Marabastad (English), accessed on November 4, 2015
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed on November 3, 2015
- ↑ Portrait of Marabastad at freeladies.co.za (English), accessed on November 4, 2015
- ^ Pretoria the Segregated City. sahistory.org.za, accessed November 2, 2015
- ↑ History of the Mamelodi Sundowns ( Memento from October 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)