The Hill | |
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  The Hill  The Hill | |
| Coordinates:26°15′06″S28°03′41″E / 26.25167°S 28.06139°E /-26.25167; 28.06139 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Main Place | Johannesburg |
| Established | 1919 |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.64 km2 (0.63 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 4,094 |
| • Density | 2,500/km2 (6,470/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 29.7% |
| • Coloured | 8.6% |
| • Indian/Asian | 4.7% |
| • White | 55.7% |
| • Other | 1.2% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 60.8% |
| • Afrikaans | 11.3% |
| • Zulu | 6.4% |
| • Xhosa | 3.9% |
| • Other | 17.6% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 6525 |
The Hill is a suburb ofJohannesburg,South Africa. The area lies inJohannesburg South and is surrounded by the suburbs ofRegents Park,Rosettenville andLinmeyer. It is located in Region F of theCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
The suburb is situated on part of an oldWitwatersrand farm calledKlipriviersberg.[2] It would be proclaimed as suburb on 29 January 1919 and its name is derived from hill it sits upon.[2]
It contains a government high school, called The Hill High School. Another school in the suburb is an independent Anglican school calledSt. Martin's School. W.H. Coetzer Primary School opened in 1952 and is named after a South African artist W.H. Coetzer.
Moffat Park lies to east the suburb and was land donated to the City of Johannesburg by Johan Abram Moffat and on 19 May 1936 became a park named after him.[3] The park consisted of a portion of land once part of an old Witwatersrand farm calledKlipriviersberg. The park, consisting of naturalveld, is now earmarked for housing development.[4]
The suburb is the home to a public hospital called South Rand Hospital which opened on 18 June 1954 by the Transvaal Administrator DrWilliam Nicol.[5]
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