Thokoza
Sign in to saveThokoza, alternatively rendered Tokoza, is a township in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. Thokoza is at the location of the now-defunct Palmietfontein Airport. It is situated south east of Alberton, adjacent to Katlehong. Thokoza was the first black township which was established in the South. During the early 1990s Thokoza was the middle of unrest between the supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC).
Key facts
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.name
- Thokoza
- Settlement.other_name
- Tokoza
- Settlement.native_name
- Menoldin
- Settlement.image_skyline
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- Settlement.image_caption
- Aerial view of Thokoza
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa Gauteng#South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Gauteng
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Ekurhuleni
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 9.43
- Settlement.population_total
- 105827
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- South African township
- Country
- South Africa
- Area
- 9.43
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
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- postal code
- 3838
- inception
- 1973-00-00
- Commons category
- Thokoza
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Thokoza, alternatively rendered Tokoza, is a township in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. Thokoza is at the location of the now-defunct Palmietfontein Airport. It is situated south east of Alberton, adjacent to Katlehong. Thokoza was the first black township which was established in the South. During the early 1990s Thokoza was the middle of unrest between the supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC).
==History== In 1955, the Germiston and Alberton municipalities swapped land and the latter received part of the land that made up the Natalspruit area, which was needed to form a new black township. From 1958-59, the Alberton municipality begun to develop a new township on the Palmietfontein section. Each plot was to be serviced with a basic water and sewerage infrastructure, with the building of a one bedroom shack and later one, two or three bedroom houses. The new township would be called Thokoza (place of peace). By 1961 all black residents of locations within the Alberton municipality had been moved to the new township after a registration process and the issuing of plot locations.
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