Sandringham is a suburb of

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...

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. It is a suburb that lies close to Glenhazel and

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. It is located in Region E of the

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. It is known for its large

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population and houses a number of Jewish institutions.

History

Prior to the discovery of gold on the

Witwatersrand The Witwatersrand () (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a , north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which ...

in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms called ''Rietfontein''. It became a suburb on 26 July 1944 and became part of Johannesburg on 10 October 1944, named after

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in England.

Communities

There is a long-established Jewish community in Sandringham. In 1955 work began on the new Witwatersrand Jewish Aged Home and Home for the Chronically Ill, described by the '' Jewish Telegraphic Agency'' as 'the largest institution of its kind in Africa and one of the most modern in the world.' The building was erected at an estimated cost of 500,000 pounds, ($1;400,000) and be dedicated to the Jewish victims of the

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in Europe. In 1997, the mostly Jewish residents of Sandhurst and the adjoining Jewish suburb of Glenhazel funded the establishment of their own police station to combat crime. The suburb is also home to the

Chevra kadisha The term ''Chevra kadisha'' (Modern Hebrew: חֶבְרָה קַדִּישָׁא) gained its modern sense of "burial society" in the nineteenth century. It is an organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of deceased Je ...

(Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand and Burial Society).

Education

* Sandringham High School, JohannesburgHesitantly, Students in South Africa Reach Across the Racial Divide
The New York Times. 12 November 2000

References

Johannesburg Region E Jews and Judaism in Johannesburg Orthodox Judaism in South Africa {{Johannesburg-stub