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Lenasia
Lenasia, also known as Lenz, is a suburb south of Soweto in the Gauteng province, South Africa, originally created to house Indians. It is located in Region G of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Lenasia is approximately 35 kilometres southwest of the Johannesburg CBD.
Apartheid-era planners situated the group area for Johannesburg's Indians near the Lenz Military Base. It originates from 1958. The name "Lenasia" is thought to be a combination of the words "Lenz" and "Asia". The Lenz in question was one Captain Lenz who owned the original plot on which Lenasia is situated. According to Parnell and Pirie the foundations for Lenasia were laid in 1963. Many of its early residents were forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act from Pageview and the portion of Vrededorp populated by non whites (jointly known as Fietas) and Fordsburg, areas close to the Johannesburg city centre, to Lenasia. As segregation grew it became the largest place where people of Indian extraction could legally live in the Transvaal Province.
In 1899, the Vanwyksrust Fort and Gaol of the ZAR was built around the same time as the Old Fort at Constitution Hill in Braamfontein. Only remnants now remain of the original structure on the corner of the Golden Highway and the R554 - (26°20′20″S 27°54′03″E / 26.33899°S 27.90091°E).
On the north-western outskirts of Lenasia, west of the Klip River wetland and alongside the N12 highway, is the Zuurbekom Pumphouse. It was built in 1899 and is still operational. Its purpose was to extract and provide the water from the dolomite rocks under the vast wetland to Central Witwatersrand. In 1975, it was declared a National Monument, and subsequently made into a Provincial Heritage Site in 2000.
In 1910, Gandhi was gifted land by Hermann Kallenbach on the outskirts of Lenasia, and established the Tolstoy Farm; it is now situated on land owned by Corobrik. On it is a museum and training centre.
On 27 September 1992, Nelson Mandela gave an address at the opening of the Gandhi Hall.
The township is large, and divided into extensions (Extensions 1-13) including a major suburb south of Lenasia, called Lenasia South and referred to as Daxina by the locals. Anchorville is the industrial park, located between Lenasia and Lenasia South.
Above Nirvana Drive (a section of the R554), is the Olifantsvlei Nature Reserve, a protected wetland lake area.
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Lenasia
Lenasia, also known as Lenz, is a suburb south of Soweto in the Gauteng province, South Africa, originally created to house Indians. It is located in Region G of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Lenasia is approximately 35 kilometres southwest of the Johannesburg CBD.
Apartheid-era planners situated the group area for Johannesburg's Indians near the Lenz Military Base. It originates from 1958. The name "Lenasia" is thought to be a combination of the words "Lenz" and "Asia". The Lenz in question was one Captain Lenz who owned the original plot on which Lenasia is situated. According to Parnell and Pirie the foundations for Lenasia were laid in 1963. Many of its early residents were forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act from Pageview and the portion of Vrededorp populated by non whites (jointly known as Fietas) and Fordsburg, areas close to the Johannesburg city centre, to Lenasia. As segregation grew it became the largest place where people of Indian extraction could legally live in the Transvaal Province.
In 1899, the Vanwyksrust Fort and Gaol of the ZAR was built around the same time as the Old Fort at Constitution Hill in Braamfontein. Only remnants now remain of the original structure on the corner of the Golden Highway and the R554 - (26°20′20″S 27°54′03″E / 26.33899°S 27.90091°E).
On the north-western outskirts of Lenasia, west of the Klip River wetland and alongside the N12 highway, is the Zuurbekom Pumphouse. It was built in 1899 and is still operational. Its purpose was to extract and provide the water from the dolomite rocks under the vast wetland to Central Witwatersrand. In 1975, it was declared a National Monument, and subsequently made into a Provincial Heritage Site in 2000.
In 1910, Gandhi was gifted land by Hermann Kallenbach on the outskirts of Lenasia, and established the Tolstoy Farm; it is now situated on land owned by Corobrik. On it is a museum and training centre.
On 27 September 1992, Nelson Mandela gave an address at the opening of the Gandhi Hall.
The township is large, and divided into extensions (Extensions 1-13) including a major suburb south of Lenasia, called Lenasia South and referred to as Daxina by the locals. Anchorville is the industrial park, located between Lenasia and Lenasia South.
Above Nirvana Drive (a section of the R554), is the Olifantsvlei Nature Reserve, a protected wetland lake area.