Homestead Park, Gauteng
Homestead Park | |
|---|---|
  Homestead Park  Homestead Park | |
| Coordinates: 26°12′14″S 27°59′55″E / 26.20389°S 27.99861°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Main Place | Johannesburg |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.55 km2 (0.21 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 1,423 |
| • Density | 2,600/km2 (6,700/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 20.5% |
| • Coloured | 2.3% |
| • Indian/Asian | 67.6% |
| • White | 2.3% |
| • Other | 7.4% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 68.5% |
| • Afrikaans | 11.1% |
| • Tswana | 2.8% |
| • Zulu | 2.7% |
| • Other | 14.9% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 2092 |
Homestead Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb is west of the Johannesburg CBD and is adjacent to Mayfair. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
In the news
Residents of the suburb are concerned about the authorities' poor management of the area. [2]Residents of Homestead Park informal settlement have built their dwellings over a gas pipeline set 1,5 m underground.[3] The urban poor often reside in hazard hotspots,[4] and this situation, according to a SASOL Report, is an uncontrolled safety risk[5]. Despite fires being lit over the pipeline, the relocation of settlements is being delayed by the city bureaucracy.
References
- ^ a b c d "Sub Place Homestead Park". Census 2011.
- ^ "Homestead Park: Residential suburb or somebody's pasture?". 5 February 2025.
- ^ "Sasol report warns of 'uncontrolled risk' to Johannesburg park gas pipeline". 13 June 2025.
- ^ Abunyewah, Matthew; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Maund, Kim (2018). "Profiling Informal Settlements for Disaster Risks". Procedia Engineering. 212: 238–245. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.031.
- ^ https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2025-06-01-gas-time-bomb-still-ticking-in-joburg-suburb/
