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Wemmer | |
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  Wemmer Wemmer's location in Gauteng | |
| Coordinates:26°12′55″S28°02′45″E / 26.21528°S 28.04583°E /-26.21528; 28.04583 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| City | Johannesburg |
| Established | 1919 |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.26 km2 (0.10 sq mi) |
Wemmer is a suburb ofJohannesburg,South Africa, around 800 m south-southeast of City Hall.
The covers around 0.26 km2 north and south of theM2 highway (the Francois Oberholzer Freeway). It bordersSelby to the west and southwest,Marshalltown andSalisbury Claims to the north,Village Main to the east, andNew Centre to the southeast.
Wemmer was founded in 1919 on the lands of the new exhausted Wemmergold mine, which was onTurffontein Farm. The mine, in turn, was named after Sam Wemmer (1846–1933), who made R40,000/yr from it but still died a pauper; nearbyWemmer Pan was named after him as well.
