Erasmia | |
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Coordinates: 25°48′51″S 28°5′35″E / 25.81417°S 28.09306°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Gauteng |
Municipality | City of Tshwane |
Established | 26 January 2019 |
Area | |
• Total | 2.93 km2 (1.13 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 6,932 |
• Density | 2,400/km2 (6,100/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 12.6% |
• Coloured | 1.8% |
• Indian/Asian | 77.0% |
• White | 7.0% |
• Other | 1.6% |
First languages (2011) | |
• 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.