Bertrams, Gauteng

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Bertrams
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Bertrams
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Bertrams
Coordinates: 26°11′34″S28°3′58″E / 26.19278°S 28.06611°E / -26.19278; 28.06611
Country South Africa
Province Gauteng
Municipality City of Johannesburg
Main Place Johannesburg
Established1889
Area
[1]
 • Total
0.39 km2 (0.15 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [1]
 • Total
3,906
 • Density10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
 •  Black African 77.1%
 •  Coloured 7.6%
 •  Indian/Asian 3.4%
 •  White 10.7%
 • Other1.3%
First languages (2011)
[1]
 •  Zulu 21.3%
 •  English 16.9%
 •  Afrikaans 11.4%
 •  Southern Ndebele 7.5%
 • Other42.9%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
2094

Bertrams is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs of New Doornfontein and Lorentzville, with Troyeville to the south. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The suburb was founded on one of the original farms on the Witwatersrand, after a strip of land was sold from the farm Doornfontein. [2] : 158  The suburb was named after its real estate developer Robertson Fuller Bertrams. [2] : 156  [3] It was proclaimed a suburb on 16 August 1889 and was initially called Bertramstown. [3] By the 1930s, Bertrams accommodated a 'racially mixed working class population'. [4] However, in the 1930s, black residents of Bertrams were some of the black people to be relocated to Orlando. Indian and coloured people were also relocated in order establish a white working class housing scheme. Bertrams began to desegregate two decades before the 1991 repeal of apartheid's racial segregation policies. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Bertrams". Census 2011.
  2. 1 2 Leyds, Gerald Anton (1964). A History of Johannesburg: The Early Years. Nasional Boekhandel. p. 318.
  3. 1 2 Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN   9781868425501.
  4. ↑ Rule, Stephen P. (1988). "Racial Residential Integration in Bertrams, Johannesburg". South African Geographical Journal. 70 (1): 69–72. doi:10.1080/03736245.1988.10559757. ISSN   0373-6245.
  5. ↑ Rule, S. P. (July 1989). "The Emergence of a Racially Mixed Residential Suburb in Johannesburg: Demise of the Apartheid City?". The Geographical Journal. 155 (2): 196–203. doi:10.2307/635061. JSTOR   635061.