Judith's Paarl

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Judith's Paarl
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Judith's Paarl
Coordinates: 26°11′25″S28°04′20″E / 26.1904°S 28.0722°E / -26.1904; 28.0722
Country South Africa
Province Gauteng
Municipality City of Johannesburg
Main Place Johannesburg
Established1896
Area
[1]
  Total0.30 km2 (0.12 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [1]
  Total2,453
  Density8,200/km2 (21,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
   Black African 81.2%
   Coloured 4.5%
   Indian/Asian 8.8%
   White 2.4%
  Other3.0%
First languages (2011)
[1]
   Zulu 29.9%
   English 17.5%
   Xhosa 8.0%
   Southern Ndebele 6.3%
  Other38.4%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
2094

Judith's Paarl is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs of Lorentzville and Bezuidenhout Valley, with Troyeville and Kensington to the south. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The suburb was founded on one of the original farms on the Witwatersrand, after a strip of land was sold from the farm Doornfontein. [2] :158 It originates around 1896. [3] The suburb is possibly named after a daughter of the Lorentz family. [2] :157 Other sources are Judith Cornelia Estresia, wife of the original farmer owner F.C. Bezuidenhout. [3] It had a terminus for the Johannesburg tramway network on the corner of Ascot Road and First Street. [2] :157

For much of the twentieth century, along with Yeoville, it established itself as a hub for middle-class Jewish residents. These residents had usually arrived with earlier waves of Jewish migration from Europe and had established social and financial security in their adopted home. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Judith's Paarl". Census 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 Leyds, Gerald Anton (1964). A History of Johannesburg: The Early Years. Nasional Boekhandel. p. 318.
  3. 1 2 Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN   9781868425501.
  4. The Jewish Community of Johannesburg, 1886-1939: Landscapes of Reality and Imagination University of Pretoria. December 2004