Erasmia

Erasmia
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Coordinates: 25°48′51″S 28°5′35″E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Tshwane
Established	26 January 2019
Area [1]
• Total	2.93 km^2 (1.13 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	6,932
• Density	2,400/km^2 (6,100/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	12.6%
• Coloured	1.8%
• Indian/Asian	77.0%
• White	7.0%
• Other	1.6%
First languages (2011) [1]
• English	75.3%
• Afrikaans	12.5%
• Northern Sotho	2.5%
• Tswana	1.2%
• Other	8.5%
Time zone	UTC+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

1. "Sub Place Erasmia". Census 2011.
2. Sub Place Erasmia Census 2001
3. Standard encyclopaedia of Southern Africa / 4 Dev - For. Cape Town: Nasou. 1971. p. 382. ISBN 978-0-625-00320-4.