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Denver | |
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  Denver Denver's location in Gauteng | |
| Coordinates:26°12′25″S28°06′05″E / 26.20694°S 28.10139°E /-26.20694; 28.10139 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| City | Johannesburg |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.81 km2 (0.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 7,257 |
| • Density | 4,009/km2 (10,383.3/sq mi) |
| Races | |
| • White | 0.3% |
| • Asian | 0.3% |
| • Cape Coloured | 0.3% |
| • Black | 97.9% |
| • Other | 1.2% |
| Languages | |
| • Zulu | 80.0% |
| • Southern Ndebele | 3.4% |
| • Xhosa | 2.5% |
| • English | 2.3% |
| • Other | 12.0% |
Denver is an industrial suburb in easternJohannesburg,South Africa, on the railway toGermiston and Hoofrif Road, around 6 km east of City Hall. It bordersBenrose to the west,Jeppestown andMalvern to the north,Cleveland to the east, and theFrançois Oberholzer Freeway to the south. There is just a small portion of the suburb in the northwest that has residential zoning; otherwise, Denver consists of industrial land and squatter camps both in the west and up north, the latter largely on Hoofrif Road.[citation needed]
Denver was laid out on 25 ha ofDoornfontein farm, like all the eastern suburbs of Johannesburg. Owner F.J. Bezuidenhout, for whomBezuidenhout Valley is named, leased the area in 1903 to a J.H. Strutton to grow crops and garden. Denver was later purchased by a business, and in October 1898, it was zoned as a residential township.[citation needed] Before and after theSecond Boer War, severalAmericanmining machinery firms built offices there, and it was named afterDenver, capital ofColorado, as a result.
On 31 May 1900, Dr.Fritz Krause, theSouth African Republic's appointed mayor of Johannesburg, rode out to meetFrederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts to arrange the surrender of the main city into which they subsequently rode.[citation needed]
In the early years, the white population of the area was so large that from 1910 to 1933, there was a constituency in theParliament of South Africa which located in the neighborhood.[citation needed]
The Denver Station stop on theMetrorail Gauteng is located at26°12′22″S28°5′48″E / 26.20611°S 28.09667°E /-26.20611; 28.09667.[2] It was the site of atrain crash in 2015.[3]
