Jan Hofmeyer is a
suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...
of
Johannesburg, South Africa, located in Region F of the
City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The suburb was named after
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (20 March 1894 – 3 December 1948), a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding
Apartheid.
History
The suburb’s origins date back to 1935, where it was created for cheap housing.
References
Johannesburg Region F
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