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Henley on Klip | |
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| Coordinates:26°32′7″S28°03′40″E / 26.53528°S 28.06111°E /-26.53528; 28.06111 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| District | Sedibeng |
| Municipality | Midvaal |
| Established | 1904 |
| Area | |
• Total | 11.37 km2 (4.39 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 5,874 |
| • Density | 520/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 40.2% |
| • Coloured | 2.4% |
| • Indian/Asian | 1.5% |
| • White | 55.6% |
| • Other | 0.4% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 41.9% |
| • Afrikaans | 27.9% |
| • Zulu | 9.8% |
| • Sotho | 7.8% |
| • Other | 12.6% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 1961 |
| PO box | 1962 |
| Area code | 016 |
Henley on Klip is a town inMidvaal Local Municipality inGauteng, South Africa. It is situated next to Highbury off exit 27 on theR59 along theKlip River betweenJohannesburg andVereeniging.
The village was founded in 1904,[2] by Advocate Horace Kent. Born in 1855 inHenley on Thames,England, Kent came toSouth Africa in 1898. The area where Henley on Klip is located reminded Kent of his hometown inEngland,Henley on Thames. Kent, in conjunction with the Small Farms Company (SFC), bought the land from a Mr Van Der Westhuizen for a price of 5000 pounds, and the land was divided intosmallholdings from 0.4 to 30 hectares (1 to 80 acres).
In 1904, the SFC decided to build theKidson Weir on the Klip River in Henley on Klip. The weir was named after Fenning Kidson, the grandson of an1820 settler. Fenning was educated inEngland, but returned toSouth Africaas a young man and became a transport rider, a contemporary of Sir PercyFitzpatrick. Soon after the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War, news came toKidson that a commando was on his way to his farm to arrest him. Under thenoses of the Boers he escaped, riding sidesaddle, his burly frame crammedinto his wife's riding habit. He finally made his way to Natal, butreturned to theTransvaal after the war, settling in Henley on Klip with hiswife, Edith. The family home was named Tilham, which is the manor house onthe river at the corner of Regatta and Shillingford Roads
There are four schools and home schooling tutor centres in the village.
At 14:15 on 28 January 1970, a schoolbus stalled on a level crossing and was hit by a passenger train; 23 children were killed and 16 were injured. Johan le Roux, a matric scholar at Dr Malan Hoerskool inMeyerton, saved two children by pushing them out of a bus window before the train hit the bus, and he died in the accident.[3][4]
Municipalities and communities ofSedibeng District Municipality,Gauteng | ||
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District seat:Vereeniging | ||
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| Midvaal | ||
| Lesedi | ||
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