Judith's Paarl | |
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  Judith's Paarl  Judith's Paarl | |
| Coordinates:26°11′25″S28°04′20″E / 26.1904°S 28.0722°E /-26.1904; 28.0722 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Main Place | Johannesburg |
| Established | 1896 |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.30 km2 (0.12 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 2,453 |
| • Density | 8,200/km2 (21,000/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 81.2% |
| • Coloured | 4.5% |
| • Indian/Asian | 8.8% |
| • White | 2.4% |
| • Other | 3.0% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Zulu | 29.9% |
| • English | 17.5% |
| • Xhosa | 8.0% |
| • Southern Ndebele | 6.3% |
| • Other | 38.4% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 2094 |
Judith's Paarl is asuburb ofJohannesburg,South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs ofLorentzville andBezuidenhout Valley, withTroyeville andKensington to the south. It is located in Region F of theCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
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 It originates around 1896.[3] The suburb is possibly named after a daughter of the Lorentz family.[2]: 157 Other sources are Judith Cornelia Estresia, wife of the original farmer owner F.C. Bezuidenhout.[3] It had a terminus for theJohannesburg tramway network on the corner of Ascot Road and First Street.[2]: 157
For much of the twentieth century, along withYeoville, it established itself as a hub for middle-classJewish residents. These residents had usually arrived with earlier waves of Jewish migration from Europe and had established social and financial security in their adopted home.[4]
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