Suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
Place in Gauteng, South Africa
26°16′16″S 27°59′53″E / 26.271°S 27.998°E / -26.271; 27.998Country | South Africa |
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Province | Gauteng |
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Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
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Main Place | Johannesburg |
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Established | 1958 |
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• Total | 3.71 km2 (1.43 sq mi) |
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Population |
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• Total | 8,021 |
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• Density | 2,200/km2 (5,600/sq mi) |
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• Black African | 45.1% |
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• Coloured | 16.4% |
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• Indian/Asian | 13.5% |
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• White | 23.3% |
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• Other | 1.8% |
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• English | 51.4% |
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• Zulu | 12.6% |
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• Afrikaans | 10.4% |
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• Sotho | 6.9% |
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• Other | 18.7% |
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Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
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Postal code (street) | 2091 |
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PO box | 2110 |
Mondeor is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Known as the Jewel of the South, Mondeor is set amongst hills outside the urban Johannesburg area but is only a 15-minute drive from the city centre.
History
The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Ormonde.[2] It was established in 1958 and its name is an anagram of the old name of the farm.[2]
Parks and green space
Parts of the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve are in Mondeor. The hills lying on the northern side of Mondeor are of sandstone, and those on the south are igneous.
Education
Mondeor currently has four schools: Mondeor Primary, Dalmondeor, Mondeor High School, and Hartford College. Mondeor Primary School first opened in 1953. The initial school building was one converted log cabin at the site of the current tennis club. The school moved to its current location in 1955.[7]
Mondeor High School opened in 1974. At the time there were three class years, standards 6, 7 and 8. An additional standard was added each year thereafter until the first class of Matriculation in 1976.
Popular culture
Parts of the 2010 novel Happiness is a Four-Letter Word (2010) are set in Mondeor.
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d "Sub Place Mondeor". 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.
- ^ "Home". mondeorprimary.co.za. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
Sources
- Stark, Felix (1958). Seventy golden years. Stark : distributed by Central News Agency.
- Jele, Cynthia (2011). Happiness is a Four-letter Word. Kwela. ISBN 978-0-7957-0354-6.
- Anon (1980). Handbook. Survey, Government Printer.
- Anon (1997). South African Journal of Geology: Being the Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa. Bureau for Scientific Publications at the Foundation for Education, Science and Technology.
- Kalantzis, Mary; Cope, Bill (2001). Transformations in Language and Learning: Perspectives on Multiliteracies. Common Ground. ISBN 978-1-86335-063-1.
- Bloch, Jayni (2012). The Riddle in the Mirror: A Journey in Search of Healing. Balboa Press. ISBN 978-1-4525-5940-7.
- Hart, G. H. T. (1968). "An Introduction to the Anatomy of Johannesburg's Southern Suburbs". South African Geographical Journal. 50 (1): 65–72. doi:10.1080/03736245.1968.10559433. ISSN 0373-6245.
- Davie, Lucille (August 2002). "Outside the city walls : Jo'burg Summit City". Rhodes Journalism Review (21). Grahamstown: 30–31. hdl:10520/EJC146339. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
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