Edleen

Edleen is a suburb in western Kempton Park, in Gauteng province, South Africa.

Edleen
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Coordinates: 26.093°S 28.206°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	Ekurhuleni
Main Place	Kempton Park, Gauteng
Area [1]
• Total	1.82 km^2 (0.70 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	4,798
• Density	2,600/km^2 (6,800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	29.1%
• Coloured	2.9%
• Indian/Asian	4.4%
• White	62.4%
• Other	1.2%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	46.7%
• English	35.0%
• Zulu	4.7%
• Northern Sotho	3.8%
• Other	9.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	1619
PO box	1625

History

The suburb lies on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Zuurfontein.[2] It was named after the owners Edward and Eileen Vermaak.[2] The original homestead was situated on stands 220, 221, 222, 223 and 224 situated between Green avenue, Ilex Avenue and Hawthorne Avenue. In the early 1960s this property was sold to Alec Louw and Eddy and Eileen Vermaak relocated to 36 Okkerneut avenue. This property was also purchased by Alec Louw about 2 years later and they then relocated to a plot in Pomona. The first six houses built in Edleen was Okkerneut Avenue 36, 32, 28 and 26 and two houses opposite the road from 36.

References

1. "Sub Place Edleen". Census 2011.
2. Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.