Berea, Gauteng
Place in Gauteng, South Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berea is an inner city neighbourhood of Johannesburg, in the South African province of Gauteng. It is east and adjacent to the Johannesburg CBD. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
Berea | |
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Coordinates: 26.185°S 28.053°E / -26.185; 28.053 | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Gauteng |
Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
Main Place | Johannesburg |
Established | 1893 |
Area | |
• Total | 1.01 km2 (0.39 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 42,801 |
• Density | 42,000/km2 (110,000/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 97.1% |
• Coloured | 0.9% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.9% |
• White | 0.7% |
• Other | 0.4% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Zulu | 32.9% |
• Southern Ndebele | 18.7% |
• English | 13.0% |
• Northern Sotho | 5.0% |
• Other | 30.4% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Postal code (street) | 4001 |
It is located in between Yeoville and Hillbrow to the east and west respectively. It was designated as a "white" area during apartheid, under the Group Areas Act. For much of the twentieth century it was a middle-class Jewish area.[2][3] In the years preceding and after the repeal of the Group Areas Act in 1991, white residents had begun to migrate to the northern suburbs.[2] The neighbourhood has been home to mostly black Africans since the 1990s.[2] It became notorious for high levels of crime and population density.[2] There have, however, been attempts to regenerate the area in recent years.[4]