Vrededorp
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 11 ′ 39 ″ S , 28 ° 1 ′ 1 ″ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Gauteng | |||
| metropolis | City of Johannesburg | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-GP | ||
| height | 1743 m | ||
| surface | 0.3 km² | ||
| Residents | 2742 (2011) | ||
| density | 9140 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | before 1895 | ||
 14th Street
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Vrededorp is a district of the metropolitan municipality City of Johannesburg in South Africa . It belongs to the city region F, which forms the inner city of Johannesburg. Together with the adjacent Pageview to the southwest , it forms the part of town often called Fietas . The distinction to Pageview is often blurred.
geography
In 2011 Vrededorp had 2742 inhabitants. The district is located northwest of downtown Johannesburg and almost immediately northwest of Braamfontein train station ; the Braamfontein district is further east. East of Vrededorp is bordered by two cemeteries: Braamfontein Cemetery in the east and Brixton Cemetery in the west.
history
Vrededorp was founded as a district for poorer citizens of the city of Johannesburg and was initially open to all population groups. The living conditions were bad. The inadequate sewerage system led to high disease rates. The name, created in 1895, is Afrikaans and means "village of peace". On February 19, 1896, a large dynamite explosion in Braamfontein train station caused severe damage in Vrededorp and the surrounding areas. Many mostly Indian textile traders, English fitters , worked along 14th Street , which led to the name Fietas. The Fietas Museum is located on the western section of the street that is already part of Pageview.
In 1957 Vrededorp was declared a “ white ” area by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act . 5760 people, Indians, Chinese , Coloreds , Cape Malay and black people , had to leave the district and move to more remote parts of the city; other areas of the district were evacuated in 1976. Almost all the houses were demolished. Two churches and two mosques have been preserved: the 23th Street Mosque - also Mohamandan Mosque - in Pageview, built in 1935, and the 15th Street Mosque (Talimul Islam Masjid). The Indian population of Vrededorp was resettled to Lenasia . To this day, Vrededorp is a poor district.
traffic
The Motorways 7, 17 and 18 perform Vrededorp.
Infrastructure
In the northeast of Vrededorp there is a Dutch Reformed church.
Personalities
- Peter Abrahams (1919–2017), writer, born in Vrededorp
- Peter Magubane (* 1932), photographer, born in Vrededorp
- Zackie Achmat (* 1962), AIDS activist, born in Vrededorp
Web links
- Life behind the scars of Fietas. joburg.org.za (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed February 20, 2019
- ↑ Life behind the scars of Fietas. joburg.org.za, accessed on February 21, 2019
- ↑ Lis Lange: White, poor and angry: white working class families in Johannesburg. Routledge, London 2018, ISBN 9781351750769 . Excerpts from books.google.de
- ^ The Braamfontein explosion. labuschagne.info, accessed on February 21, 2019
- ↑ Ruth First : Tens of thousands flock to Mai Mai daily. New Age dated January 10, 1957. In: Ruth First, Don Pinnock (Eds.): Voices of Liberations Vol. 2: Ruth First. HSCR Press, Pretoria 1997, ISBN 0-7969-1777-9 , pp. 63-65. Excerpts from books.google.de
- ↑ a b Making a stand in Vrededorp. Mail & Guardian of March 6, 1998 (English), accessed February 20, 2019
- ↑ Vrededorp –1930s. joburg.org.za, accessed on February 21, 2019