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Parktown is a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the first suburb north of the inner city (both chronologically and geographically). It is affectionately known as one of the Parks , others including Parkview , Parkwood , Westcliff , Parktown North , Parkhurst and Forest Town .
Parktown North is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is one of the older residential areas of the Northern Suburbs, having been created as a residential area for the less affluent relatives of the Randlords who had built their mansions on Parktown Ridge during the early days of the Rand gold rush (during the 1890s).
Maintained by Johannesburg Roads Agency and Department of Roads and Transport (Gauteng) Length: 36.9 km (22.9 mi) Major junctions; South end: M11 Clarendon Place, Hillbrow: M9 Victoria Avenue, Parktown M27 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parktown M1 Empire Road Junction, Parktown M17 / M7 Empire Road, Parktown M16 Greenhill Road, Emmarentia
However, the population of Johannesburg increased rapidly and the city quickly established formal neighbourhoods, most of which were racially mixed as labourers lived together. The earliest formal settlement to house people of all races, Kliptown, is located near today's Soweto.
No. Direction Description of Route Suburbs Street Names M3: North / South: M62 (Central) – M96 – M59 – M60 (start highway) – N2 (merge) – N2 (demerge ...
M27 is a major road in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. A large part of the route is named Jan Smuts Avenue which is roughly 12 km long. It begins in the southern suburb of Booysens and heads northwards through the Johannesburg CBD and the northern suburbs of Randburg .
Metropolitan Routes in Johannesburg, also called Metro Roads or Metro Routes are designated with the letter M, and are usually major routes around Johannesburg and some areas declared part of Greater Johannesburg (including the town of Krugersdorp and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality).
The government of Johannesburg's metropolitan area evolved over a seven-year period from 1993, when no metropolitan government existed under apartheid, to the establishment in December 2000 of today's Metropolitan Municipality. An "interim phase" commenced with the 1993 Constitution. This saw the establishment at the metropolitan level of the ...