Kentview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
Kentview | |
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  Kentview  Kentview | |
| Coordinates: 26°07′37″S 28°03′47″E / 26.127°S 28.063°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Main Place | Johannesburg |
| Established | 1958 |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.05 km2 (0.02 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 356 |
| • Density | 7,100/km2 (18,000/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 22.3% |
| • Coloured | 0.8% |
| • Indian/Asian | 5.1% |
| • White | 68.5% |
| • Other | 3.4% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 73.0% |
| • Afrikaans | 7.3% |
| • Tswana | 5.3% |
| • Zulu | 3.7% |
| • Other | 10.7% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 2196 |
History
editPrior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms called Syferfontein.[2] It became a suburb on 21 May 1958, and is named after Victor Kent, a chairman of Wanderers Club, and the man who purchased the land when the club moved from the moved from its location in the Johannesburg CBD at Old Wanderers to its current location what was then called Kent Park.[2][3]: 381
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Sub Place Kentview". Census 2011.
- ^ a b Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.
- ^ Shorten, John R. (1970). The Johannesburg Saga. Johannesburg: John R. Shorten Pty Ltd. p. 1159.
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