Pageview is a
suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...
of
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ...
,
South Africa
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. It is located in Region F of the
City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality () is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. It is divided into several branches and departments in order to expedite se ...
. Populated by non-whites, predominantly
Indians, until the 1970s, it was one of two adjacent suburbs (Pageview, and the portion of
Vrededorp south of 11th Street
populated by non-whites) commonly known as Fietas.
History
In 1894, the land that would eventually become Pageview, was allocated by the
South African Republic
The South African Republic (, abbreviated ZAR; ), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer republics, Boer republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it was annexed into the British Empire as a result ...
for
Cape Coloureds (including
Malays) and it became populated by Cape Malays. It was known as the ''Malay Camp'' (later ''Malay Location''
) with 279 stands. Coloureds had managed to obtain some concessions from the
Boer government of
Paul Kruger, possibly because they shared the
Afrikaans language
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento that speaks the Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutc ...
.
Indians lived in the ''Coolie location'', a slum west of the city, that was burned for sanitary reasons after an outbreak of
bubonic plague in 1904. Most of the displaced Indians moved into the Malay Location,
and by the 1940s it was mostly inhabited by Indian South Africans.
[ The town was renamed on 23 February 1943 and the council asked the government to give the Indian land owners ownership of their land.][ In 1948, the National Party won the election and would soon introduce ]Apartheid
Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...
. The area would be declared a white area which meant the eviction of all non-white residents, with black residents going to Soweto
Soweto () is a Township (South Africa), township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for ''South Western T ...
and Indian residents to Lenasia with evictions continuing from 1964 to 1970.[
]
References
External links
A history of Fietas
Fest celebrates all that is Fietas
Johannesburg Region F
Former Indian townships in South Africa
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