Rabie Ridge is a
township
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
near
Johannesburg
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,
South Africa
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. It is located in Region A of the
City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and is located east of
Midrand (adjacent to
Tembisa). It is a township formed due to forced removals of the coloured community from
Alexandra
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and is named after Jack Rabie.
Rabie Ridge has a vast majority of people living there which speak different South African languages like
Afrikaans
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,
isiZulu
Zulu (), or isiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken in Southern Africa. It is the language of the Zulu people, with about 12 million native speakers, who primarily inhabit the province of KwaZulu-Natal of ...
,
Sesotho
Sotho () or Sesotho () or Southern Sotho is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken primarily by the Basotho in Lesotho, where it is the national and official language; South Africa (particularly the Free Sta ...
and others.
References
Johannesburg Region A
Townships in Gauteng
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