Erasmia

Place in Gauteng, South Africa

25°48′51″S 28°5′35″E / 25.81417°S 28.09306°E / -25.81417; 28.09306CountrySouth AfricaProvinceGautengMunicipalityCity of TshwaneEstablished26 January 2019Area

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• Total2.93 km² (1.13 sq mi)Population

(2011)^[1]

• Total6,932 • Density2,400/km² (6,100/sq mi)Racial makeup (2011)

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• Black African12.6% • Coloured1.8% • Indian/Asian77.0% • White7.0% • Other1.6%First languages (2011)

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• English75.3% • Afrikaans12.5% • Northern Sotho2.5% • Tswana1.2% • Other8.5%Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)Postal code (street)

0183

PO box

0023

Erasmia is a suburb in the northern outskirts of Centurion in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Originally a whites-only area under apartheid, increasing numbers of Indians from neighbouring Laudium moved in, following the abolition of segregation in the early 1990s, and the construction of a direct link road between the two areas. Erasmia lies west of the R55 route. In 2001, 65.72% of the population was Indian,^[2] and by 2011, Indians made up 77.03% of the population.^[1] The area called Christoburg is for census ^[1] and other purposes usually treated as part of Erasmia.

History

It became a suburb on 4 September 1946 and was named after WFE Erasmus.^[3] It was created out of the farms Mooiplaas No. 69 and Zwartkop No. 476.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Sub Place Erasmia". Census 2011.
^ Sub Place Erasmia Census 2001
^ ^a ^b Standard encyclopaedia of Southern Africa / 4 Dev - For. Cape Town: Nasou. 1971. p. 382. ISBN 978-0-625-00320-4.