Reiger Park | |
Pushpin Map: | South Africa Gauteng#South Africa |
Coordinates: | -26.231°N 28.216°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Gauteng |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Ekurhuleni |
Subdivision Type4: | Main Place |
Established Title: | Established |
Leader Title: | Councillor |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 3.46 |
Population Total: | 39345 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Racial makeup (2011) |
Demographics1 Title1: | Black African |
Demographics1 Info1: | 51.7% |
Demographics1 Title2: | Coloured |
Demographics1 Info2: | 46.6% |
Demographics1 Title3: | Indian/Asian |
Demographics1 Title4: | White |
Demographics1 Info4: | 0.3% |
Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
Demographics1 Info5: | 0.5% |
Demographics Type2: | First languages (2011) |
Demographics2 Title1: | Afrikaans |
Demographics2 Info1: | 43.1% |
Demographics2 Title2: | Xhosa |
Demographics2 Info2: | 13.4% |
Demographics2 Title3: | Northern Sotho |
Demographics2 Info3: | 12.6% |
Demographics2 Title4: | Sotho |
Demographics2 Info4: | 7.3% |
Demographics2 Title5: | Other |
Demographics2 Info5: | 23.6% |
Timezone1: | SAST |
Utc Offset1: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code (street) |
Postal2 Code Type: | PO box |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Reiger Park is a township situated in Boksburg in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established as Stirtonville after the Second World War when people influxed from rural areas seeking work on the gold mines. In 1963, due to the apartheid government's policy of separate development, the Black people were moved to Vosloorus, the Indians to Actonville and the coloured people were left to stay in Stirtonville, then renamed Reiger Park.
The locals have given their own unofficial names to the different areas of Reiger Park, such as Jerusalem (due to the many churches in that area), Excuse Me (due to the houses being close together that neighbors say "bless you" when one sneezes), and Popcorn (a new area developed in the 1990s with homes popping up so fast that they were likened to popcorn). In 1997, the Popcorn area experienced violent rent boycotts. In 2008, it was one of the sites of violence during the anti-immigrant riots, beating and burning émigrés on streets described as "war zones", galeview cause of the view of the Cinderella dam (which is now one of the most dangerous places in ReigerPark due to gangesterism and mastermind criminals residing in the area)