Etwatwa
Sign in to saveEtwatwa, also known as Holfontein, is a township that 20 km away from Benoni, 24 kilometres away from springs in Ekurhuleni in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is made up of the following sections: Etwatwa West, Quantum, Barcelona, Mkgoba, Bester Homes, Etwatwa Ext 7, Citicon, Etwatwa East, Etwatwa Ext 9, Etwatwa Ext 10, (these both known as Emaphupheni, which means land of dreams in Nguni) and Mandela. Etwatwa is also known as the last town, as it is not far from the Gauteng-Mpumalanga border to the east towards Delmas.
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Vinony's link graph records 1,248 inbound references to Etwatwa, and connects out to University of the Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand and City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.
The entry is geolocated on the map in ZA, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including East Rand, Populated places in Ekurhuleni and Townships in Gauteng.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Dialing code
- 010
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- postal code
- 1520
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Etwatwa, also known as Holfontein, is a township that 20 km away from Benoni, 24 kilometres away from springs in Ekurhuleni in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is made up of the following sections: Etwatwa West, Quantum, Barcelona, Mkgoba, Bester Homes, Etwatwa Ext 7, Citicon, Etwatwa East, Etwatwa Ext 9, Etwatwa Ext 10, (these both known as Emaphupheni, which means land of dreams in Nguni) and Mandela. Etwatwa is also known as the last town, as it is not far from the Gauteng-Mpumalanga border to the east towards Delmas.
== History == Etwatwa was established as an extension of Daveyton to accommodate the overflow of people from the township, particularly those living in informal settlements.The area was divided into Etwatwa West and Etwatwa East, with varying levels of service provision. Over time, Etwatwa has seen the development of formal settlements since 1985 with the apartheid style houses and RDP houses after 1994.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Etwatwa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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