Troyeville | |
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  Troyeville  Troyeville | |
| Coordinates:26°11′56″S28°03′58″E / 26.199°S 28.066°E /-26.199; 28.066 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Main Place | Johannesburg |
| Established | 1891 |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.61 km2 (0.24 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 4,154 |
| • Density | 6,800/km2 (18,000/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 89.1% |
| • Coloured | 4.1% |
| • Indian/Asian | 2.2% |
| • White | 3.2% |
| • Other | 1.3% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Zulu | 28.7% |
| • English | 13.5% |
| • Xhosa | 7.1% |
| • Sotho | 5.3% |
| • Other | 45.4% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 2094 |
| PO box | 2139 |
Troyeville is asuburb ofJohannesburg,South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of theJohannesburg CBD, with the suburbs ofNew Doornfontein,Bertrams andLorentzville to the north,Fairview to the south andKensington to its east. The main road through the suburb isAlbertina Sisulu Road, which connects the CBD to Johannesburg's eastern suburbs and towns of theEast Rand. It is located in Region F of theCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
Troyeville was founded as the gold rush happened and people tried to build homes and churches away from the centre of mining. 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 land was purchased by Hollanders, Van Boeschoten and Lorentz.[2]: 151 Their land was surveyed by Gustav Arthur Troye and is named after this surveyor.[2]: 155 The survey did not take into count the contours of the land and hence there are steep slopes in the suburb.[2]: 155 The street names all haveNetherlands origins.[2]: 155 During 1895, the plots of land were being sold for an average price of £30.[3]: 176 Mohandas Gandhi lived in Troyeville from a period between 1904 and 1906, with the house still in existence at 11 Albermarle Street.[4]
The oldest Baptist church in South Africa is in Troyeville dating from 1897 when it was started by missionaries.[5] An anti-apartheid activistDavid Webster lived on Eleanor Street at what is now called theDavid Webster House. The front of the house is decorated to celebrate his life and his murder for his beliefs.
Laërskool Johan Rissik was anAfrikaans languageprimary school. It included a junior school for kindergarten and first grade and a senior school for students from grades 2 to 5. The junior school was on what was then Kitchener Street (now Albertina Sisulu Road) and the senior school adjoining that street and Pretoria Street. The school was named after the first administrator of theTransvaal, Johann Rissik. It closed on 3 December 1991.[6]
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