Chrisville
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Place in Gauteng, South Africa
Chrisville | |
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Coordinates: 26°15′30″S 28°01′28″E / 26.25833°S 28.02444°E / -26.25833; 28.02444 | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Gauteng |
Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
Main Place | Johannesburg |
Established | 1948 |
Area | |
• Total | 0.33 km2 (0.13 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 1,133 |
• Density | 3,400/km2 (8,900/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 27.6% |
• Coloured | 17.9% |
• Indian/Asian | 20.5% |
• White | 30.7% |
• Other | 3.3% |
First languages (2011) | |
• English | 57.2% |
• Afrikaans | 16.9% |
• Zulu | 10.1% |
• Sotho | 2.9% |
• Other | 12.8% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Postal code (street) | 2091 |
Chrisville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. A large part of the suburb is currently taken up by a mine dump.
History
[edit]The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Turffontein.[2] It was established in 1948 and was named after the Chris mine shaft, a Robinson Deep Mine, which was named after a chairman Douglas Christopherson.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Sub Place Chrisville". 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.
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