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Reiger Park | |
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  Reiger Park  Reiger Park | |
| Coordinates:26°13′52″S28°12′58″E / 26.231°S 28.216°E /-26.231; 28.216 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | Ekurhuleni |
| Area | |
• Total | 3.46 km2 (1.34 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 39,345 |
| • Density | 11,000/km2 (29,000/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 51.7% |
| • Coloured | 46.6% |
| • White | 0.3% |
| • Other | 0.5% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Afrikaans | 43.1% |
| • Xhosa | 13.4% |
| • Northern Sotho | 12.6% |
| • Sotho | 7.3% |
| • Other | 23.6% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Reiger Park is a township situated inBoksburg in theEkurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality,Gauteng,South Africa. It was established as Stirtonville after theSecond World War when people influxed from rural areas seeking work on thegold mines. In1963, due to theapartheid government's policy of separate development, the Black people were moved toVosloorus, theIndians to Actonville and the coloured people were left to stay in Stirtonville, then renamed Reiger Park.
The locals have given their own unofficial names to the different areas of Reiger Park, such as Jerusalem (due to the many churches in that area), Excuse Me (due to the houses being close together that neighbors say "bless you" when one sneezes), and Popcorn (a new area developed in the 1990s with homes popping up so fast that they were likened to popcorn). In1997, thePopcorn area experienced violent rent boycotts. In 2008, it was one of the sites of violence during theanti-immigrant riots, beating and burning émigrés on streets described as "war zones", galeview cause of the view of the Cinderella dam (which is now one of the most dangerous places in ReigerPark due to gangesterism and mastermind criminals residing in the area)[citation needed]
Communities ofEkurhuleni,Gauteng | ||
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Seat:Germiston | ||
| Places in Ekurhuleni | .svg) | |
| Suburbs of Kempton Park | ||
| Suburbs of Germiston |
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