Gauteng Cities and Towns

Population nearly 122,000 People Elevation 1,570 m Area 77.16 km2 Makeup Black 26.5% Coloured 14.4% Indian/Asian 4.9% White 53.2% Other 0.9% At the age of 13 a boy by the name of Johannes Petrus Meyer bought 11 hectares of his father’s farm Elandsfontein. He later...

Population nearly 159,000 People Elevation 1,645 m Area 175.55 km2 Makeup Black 45.2% Coloured 2.1% Indian/Asian 13.9% White 38.1% Other 0.8% Benoni’s inauspicious beginnings date to 1881 when then surveyor-general of the Transvaal Republic Johan Rissik found it...

Population nearly 261,000 People Elevation 1,694 m Area 162.35 km2 Makeup Black 56.7% Coloured 11.6% Indian/Asian 2.5% White 28.4% Other 0.8% Prior to 1860, the present municipal area of Boksburg and its immediate environs comprised mainly the highveld farms called...

Population nearly 74,000 People Elevation 1,644 m Area 182.81 km2 Makeup Black 39.7% Coloured 2.5% Indian/Asian 4.1% White 53.3% Other 0.4% The name Brakpan comes from a small pan on a farm called Weltevreden, which was filled with very brackish water and was probably...

Population nearly 3,800 People Elevation 1,644 m Area 3.11 km2 Bronkhorstspruit is a small developing town 50 km east of Pretoria, Gauteng along the N4 highway towards Witbank. It lies on the border between the Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces. It also consists of...

Population nearly 24,000 People Elevation 1,541 m Area 35.14 km2 Makeup Black 70.1% Coloured 0.9% Indian/Asian 1.3% White 27.4% Other 0.4% Carletonville is a gold-mining town in western Gauteng South Africa. It is one of the richest gold-producing areas in the world....

Population nearly 9,000 People Elevation 1,476 m Area 55.66 km2 Makeup Black 64.3% Coloured 2.7% Indian/Asian 0.5% White 31.7% Other 0.8% In 1898 Sir Thomas Cullinan was handed a three carat diamond found along a farm fence. He studied the area and came to the...

Population nearly 256,000 People Elevation 1,620 m Area 143.27 km2 Makeup Black 62.3% Coloured 2.3% Indian/Asian 3.0% White 31.3% Other 1.1% It was established in the early days of the gold rush when two prospectors, John Jack from the farm...

Population nearly 36,000 People Elevation 1,482 m Area 40.26km2 Makeup Black 56.8% Coloured 1.8% Indian/Asian 3.2% White 37.3% Other 1.0% Heidelberg began in 1862 as a trading station built by a German, Heinrich Julius Ueckermann. A town was laid out around the store...

Population nearly 4,500,000 People Elevation 1,753 m Area 1,645 km2 Makeup Black 64.2% Coloured 13.9% Indian/Asian 6.7% White 13.9% Other 1.3% The region surrounding Johannesburg was originally inhabited by San people. By the 13th century, groups of Bantu-speaking...

Population nearly 172,000 People Elevation 1,676 m Area 149.05 km2 Makeup Black 46.6% Coloured 2.3% Indian/Asian 3.3% White 46.9% Other 0.9% Carl Friedrich Wolff was born on Christmas Eve 1851 in Kempten, the capital of the Austro-Bavarian district Allgäu in South...

Population nearly 141,000 People Elevation 1,713 m Area 247.22 km2 Makeup Black 42.3% Coloured 1.4% Indian/Asian 5.4% White 50.2% Other 0.8% Krugersdorp is the site of a December 1880 gathering at which more than 6,000 men vowed to fight for the Transvaal's...

Population nearly 56,000 People Elevation 1,473 m Area 180.24 km2 Makeup Black 49.3% Coloured 1.2% Indian/Asian 0.5% White 48.6% Other 0.4% Meyerton was established in 1891 and was named after Johannes Petrus Meyer, a field cornet and member of the Transvaal...

Population nearly 3 000,000 People Elevation 1,339 m Area 6,298 km2 Makeup Black 42.0% Coloured 2.5% Indian/Asian 1.9% White 52.5% Other 1.2% The Southern Transvaal Ndebele occupied the river valley, which was to become the location of the city of Pretoria, by around...

Population nearly 81,000 People Elevation 1,709 m Area 186.42 km2 Makeup Black 44.8% Coloured 17.5% Indian/Asian 0.7% White 36.1% Other 0.8% Randfontein’s existence dates back to the 1550s when the AmaNdebele lived as one nation at Emhlangeni (today’s Randfontein...

Population nearly 327,000 People Elevation 1,741 m Area 161.50 km2 Makeup Black 51.4% Coloured 8.2% Indian/Asian 4.0% White 35.4% Other 0.9% Roodepoort is a city in the Greater Johannesburg area, Gauteng, South Africa. Johannesburg's most famous botanical garden,...

Population nearly 122,000 People Elevation 1,627 m Area 183.50 km2 Makeup Black 57.5% Coloured 1.4% Indian/Asian 4.4% White 36.2% Other 0.5% The city of Springs, east of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhuleni, in...

Population nearly 96,000 People Elevation 1,485 m Area 177.84 km2 Makeup Black 42.5% Coloured 1.3% Indian/Asian 0.9% White 54.4% Other 0.9% In 1920, Dr HJ van der Bijl, a young South African electrical engineer working in the United States at the time, was called back...

Population nearly 100,000 People Elevation 1,479 m Area 188.19 km2 Makeup Black 55.0% Coloured 5.1% Indian/Asian 5.8% White 33.1% Other 1.0% The city was founded in 1892 and much of its early growth was due to the nearby coal mines. The city is known for being the...

Population nearly 11,000 People Elevation 1,573 m Area 12.65 km2 Makeup Black 65.5% Coloured 1.4% Indian/Asian 1.0% White 31.9% Other 0.2% Westonaria is a town in the west of Gauteng province of South Africa. It is situated in the Westonaria Local Municipality, part...

Population nearly 180,000 People Elevation 1,542 m Area 6.91km2 Makeup Black 99.0% Coloured 0.4% Indian/Asian 0.1% White 0.1% Other 0.4% Alexandra was established in 1912, on land originally owned by a farmer, a Mr. Papenfus, who tried to establish a white residential...

Population nearly 180,000 People Elevation 1,437 m Area 9.84 km2 Makeup Black 99.1% Coloured 0.3% Indian/Asian 0.1% White 0.2% Other 0.3% Atteridgeville was established in 1939 for black people by the government, after much lobbying by Mrs. Myrtle Patricia Atteridge....

Population nearly 48,000 People Elevation 1,584 m Area 27.90 km2 Makeup Black 98.2% Coloured 0.4% Indian/Asian 0.2% White 0.1% Other 0.1% Bekkersdal is a township situated 7 km east of Westonaria and 14 km south of Randfontein in the Gauteng province. It was...

Population nearly 48,000 People Elevation 1,455 m Area 4.31 km2 Makeup Black 99.3% Coloured 0.3% Indian/Asian 0.1% White 0.1% Other 0.2% Boipatong is a township near Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1955 to house black residents who worked...

Population nearly 47,000 People Elevation 1,499 m Area 9.67 km2 Makeup Black 99.1% Coloured 0.5% Indian/Asian 0.1% White 0.1% Other 0.3% Bophelong, is a Township near Vanderbijlpark Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1955 to house black residents who worked...

Population nearly 128,000 People Elevation 1,617 m Area 14.45 km2 Makeup Black 98.5% Coloured 0.3% Indian/Asian 0.3% White 0.1% Other 0.8% Daveyton is a township in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality of Gauteng in South Africa. It borders Etwatwa to the...

Population nearly 96,000 People Elevation 1,600 m Area 6.46 km2 Makeup Black 99.7% Coloured 0.2% Indian/Asian 0.0% White 0.1% Other 0.0% Diepkloof is a township of Johannesburg in the Gauteng province. It is also sometimes referred to asDiepmeadow, if considered as a...

Population nearly 41,000 People Elevation 1,649 m Area 2.73 km2 Makeup Black 99.1% Coloured 0.4% Indian/Asian 0.1% White 0.1% Other 0.3% Dobsonville is a township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, and is...

Population nearly 74,000 People Elevation 1,628 m Area 11.23 km2 Makeup Black 98.8% Coloured 0.4% Indian/Asian 0.2% White 0.1% Other 0.4% Duduza is a township west of Nigel on the East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1964 when Africans were...

Population nearly 49,000 People Elevation 1,504 m Area 46.05 km2 Makeup Black 99.0% Coloured 0.3% Indian/Asian 0.3% White 0.0% Other 0.3% Ekangala is a small location in City of Tshwane in the Gauteng province of South...