Springfield is a suburb of

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, 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#List of megacities, megacity, and is List of urban areas by p ...

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. It is a small

industrial suburb An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban sp ...

located south of the Johannesburg CBD, close to

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. It is located in Region F of the

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History

Prior to the discovery of gold on the

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in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms called ''Turffontein''. Springfield became a suburb in 1906.

References

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