Bertrams | |
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  Bertrams  Bertrams | |
| Coordinates:26°11′34″S28°3′58″E / 26.19278°S 28.06611°E /-26.19278; 28.06611 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Main Place | Johannesburg |
| Established | 1889 |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.39 km2 (0.15 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 3,906 |
| • Density | 10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 77.1% |
| • Coloured | 7.6% |
| • Indian/Asian | 3.4% |
| • White | 10.7% |
| • Other | 1.3% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Zulu | 21.3% |
| • English | 16.9% |
| • Afrikaans | 11.4% |
| • Southern Ndebele | 7.5% |
| • Other | 42.9% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 2094 |
Bertrams is asuburb ofJohannesburg,South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs ofNew Doornfontein andLorentzville, withTroyeville to the south. It is located in Region F of theCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
The suburb was founded on one of the original farms on the Witwatersrand, after a strip of land was sold from the farmDoornfontein.[2]: 158 The suburb was named after its real estate developer Robertson Fuller Bertrams.[2]: 156 [3] It was proclaimed a suburb on 16 August 1889 and was initially called Bertramstown.[3] By the 1930s, Bertrams accommodated a 'racially mixed working class population'.[4] However, in the 1930s, black residents of Bertrams were some of the black people to be relocated to Orlando. Indian and coloured people were also relocated in order establish a white working class housing scheme. Bertrams began to desegregate two decades before the 1991 repeal of apartheid's racial segregation policies.[5]
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