Edenvale | |
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 Van Riebeeck Avenue, Edenvale CBD as seen fromGreenstone Hill | |
  Edenvale  Edenvale | |
| Coordinates:26°8′28″S28°9′10″E / 26.14111°S 28.15278°E /-26.14111; 28.15278 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | Ekurhuleni |
| Established | 1903; 122 years ago (1903) |
| Area | |
• Total | 20.03 km2 (7.73 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 49,292 |
| • Density | 2,461/km2 (6,374/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 20.5% |
| • Coloured | 2.8% |
| • Indian/Asian | 8.7% |
| • White | 66.1% |
| • Other | 1.9% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 72.2% |
| • Afrikaans | 11.6% |
| • Greek | 4.5% |
| • Zulu | 4.0% |
| • Portuguese | 3.6% |
| • Italian | 2.1% |
| • Northern Sotho | 2.0% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 1609 |
| PO box | 1610 |
| Area code | 011 |
| Website | ekurhuleni.gov.za |
Edenvale is a small city on theEast Rand inGauteng,South Africa. It is part of theEkurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. It lies about halfway between theO.R. Tambo International Airport and theJohannesburg city centre and is located 12 km by road fromSandton and about 9 km from the closestGautrain station.
It started out in 1903, after theAnglo Boer War as a small settlement named Rietfontein which sprung up around the RietfonteinGold Mine.[2] It was made a municipality in 1942.[2] It was initially populated byCornish mineworkers.
Residential suburbs include:
Industrial suburbs include:
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Edenvale is a busy city that ranges from middle-class areas such as Edenvale Central, Eastleigh and Illiondale, to the more upper-class areas such as Dowerglen and Edenglen. Edenvale Central (locally referred to as The Avenues) has seen high investment over the past few years in the form of upper-income clusters and townhouses. This has resulted in small-scalegentrification and hence an increase in coffee shops and streetside cafes. There is also a trend in Eastleigh and Illiondale to purchase derelict properties and renovate them, which has also benefitted the area. Much of Edenvale widely diversified by immigration to other parts of Africa, notably:Zambians andMalawians. It also hosts a large population ofPortuguese,Greeks andItalians.
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In the last ten years,[when?] the area to the north of Edenvale (Modderfontein) has expanded significantly. Five malls have been erected,Greenstone andStoneridge mall, Eden Meadows, Stonehill Crossing and Green Valley as well as an array of complexes and townhouses, in an area now calledGreenstone Hill and Greenstone Park, just west of Illiondale. This recent, yet rapid influx of infrastructure and added commercial business has bankrupted businesses in Lungile Mtshali Road (formerly Van Riebeeck Road; the main thoroughfare through the Edenvale City Centre) forcing numerous store owners to liquidate their capital investments.
In 1995, after the local government elections, Edenvale was amalgamated with some surrounding areas, includingModderfontein,Rabie Ridge Extensions 4 and 5,Chloorkop and the western part ofTembisa to form the Lethabong municipality, as part of the short-lived transitionalKhayalami Metropolitan Council,[3] which also includedMidrand andKempton Park/Tembisa. This arrangement ended in 2000, and Edenvale is now part of theEkurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, which includes much of theEast Rand, while Modderfontein and Rabie Ridge became part of theCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
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Seat:Germiston | ||
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