Ennerdale, South Africa

Ennerdale is a town in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa. Ennerdale was declared as a coloured group area under the apartheid regime.

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Coordinates: 26°24′35″S 27°50′13″E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
• Councillor	(PA)
Area [1]
• Total	21.33 km2 (8.24 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	71,815
• Density	3,400/km2 (8,700/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	65.7%
• Coloured	32.9%
• Indian/Asian	0.6%
• White	0.1%
• Other	0.7%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	19.6%
• English	18.4%
• Zulu	17.6%
• Sotho	16.1%
• Other	28.3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	1830
PO box	1826

According to Crankshaw (2022),

'the coloureds-only suburb of Ennerdale, which was developed later during the 1980s, was built for homeownership by the private sector and home loans were financed by private banks (Lupton, 1991: pp.20–1; 1993).' ^[2]

Even though apartheid ended in 1994 people still regard it as a Coloured community.

History

Ennerdale was established as an extension to Grasmere, farmland which was meant to serve and be occupied by the white communities of Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark, however due to Apartheid, Ennerdale, the now new Township next to Grasmere was established to house the Coloured people of South Africa.

Ennerdale offers a variety of secondary and primary schools such as Mid Ennerdale Primary School, Daleview Secondary School, Ennerdale Secondary School and Fred Norman Secondary School.

Ennerdale is surrounded by areas such as Hopefield, Lawley Township, Lakeview, Lenasia, Lenasia South, Grasmere and Finetown.

Today Ennerdale has Extensions found in two wards. WARD 7: Extension 1, Extension 2, Extension 3, Extension 6, Extension 10, Extension 11, Extension 12, Extension 13, Extension 14 and Finetown.

WARD 121: Ennerdale Extension 4, Extension 5, Extension 8, Extension 9, Lawley Township and Lakeview.

References

1. "Main Place Ennerdale". Census 2011.
2. Crankshaw, Owen (2022). Urban Inequality: Theory Evidence and Method in Johannesburg. London: Zed. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-7869-9893-4.

Bibliography

Lupton, Malcolm H. (1993) Ennerdale New Town, South Africa: The Social Limits to Urban Design. GeoJournal 30 (1): 37-44.

Lupton, Malcolm H. (1993) Collective Consumption and Urban Segregation in South Africa: The Case of Two Colored Suburbs in the Johannesburg Region, Antipode 25(1): 32–50.