Bezuidenhout Valley

Bezuidenhout Valley
Bezuidenhout Valley
	Bezuidenhout Valley Bezuidenhout Valley
	Coordinates: 26°11′17″S 28°04′28″E / 26.18806°S 28.07444°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Area
• Total	1.77 km2 (0.68 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	9,252
• Density	5,200/km2 (14,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	64.07%
• Coloured	10.02%
• Indian/Asian	12.44%
• White	11.15%
• Other	2.31%
First languages (2011)
• English	45.59%
• Zulu	16.51%
• Afrikaans	5.85%
• Ndebele	3.58%
• Other	16.26%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	2094

Bezuidenhout Valley is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The area lies to the east of the Johannesburg CBD and is surrounded by the suburbs of Kensington to the south and Observatory to the north. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It is colloquially known as the Bez Valley.

History

The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Doornfontein.^[2] The farm Doornfontein was purchased in 1861 from B.P. Viljoen by Frederik Jacobus Bezuidenhout.^[2] Parts of the farm were sold from 1902 and the suburb stands from 1906.^[3]^: 67 In March 1949, Willem Bezuidenhout sold the remaining land of 133ha to the Johannesburg City Council for use as a park and to be called Bezuidenhout Park.^[3]^: 67

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sub Place Bezuidenhout Valley". Census 2011.
^ ^a ^b Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.
^ ^a ^b Musiker, Naomi; Musiker, Reuben (2000). A Concise Historical Dictionary of Greater Johannesburg. Cape Town: Francolin. ISBN 1868590712.

This Johannesburg-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[census2011-1] "Sub Place Bezuidenhout Valley". Census 2011.

[Dict01-2] Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.

[DGJ01-3] Musiker, Naomi; Musiker, Reuben (2000). A Concise Historical Dictionary of Greater Johannesburg. Cape Town: Francolin. ISBN 1868590712.

[1]

[2]

[3]