Homestead Park, Gauteng

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Homestead Park
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Homestead Park
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Homestead Park
Coordinates: 26°12′14″S27°59′55″E / 26.20389°S 27.99861°E / -26.20389; 27.99861
Country South Africa
Province Gauteng
Municipality City of Johannesburg
Main Place Johannesburg
Area
[1]
 • Total
0.55 km2 (0.21 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [1]
 • Total
1,423
 • Density2,600/km2 (6,700/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
 •  Black African 20.5%
 •  Coloured 2.3%
 •  Indian/Asian 67.6%
 •  White 2.3%
 • Other7.4%
First languages (2011)
[1]
 •  English 68.5%
 •  Afrikaans 11.1%
 •  Tswana 2.8%
 •  Zulu 2.7%
 • Other14.9%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
2092

Homestead Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is west of the Johannesburg CBD and is adjacent to Mayfair. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

In the news

Residents of the suburb are concerned about the authorities' poor management of the area. [2] Residents of Homestead Park informal settlement have built their dwellings over a gas pipeline set 1,5 m underground. [3] The urban poor often reside in hazard hotspots, [4] and this situation, according to a SASOL Report, is an uncontrolled safety risk [5] . Despite fires being lit over the pipeline, the relocation of settlements is being delayed by the city bureaucracy.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Homestead Park". Census 2011.
  2. ↑ "Homestead Park: Residential suburb or somebody's pasture?". 5 February 2025.
  3. ↑ "Sasol report warns of 'uncontrolled risk' to Johannesburg park gas pipeline". 13 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Abunyewah, Matthew; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Maund, Kim (2018). "Profiling Informal Settlements for Disaster Risks". Procedia Engineering. 212: 238–245. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.031.
  5. ↑ https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2025-06-01-gas-time-bomb-still-ticking-in-joburg-suburb/