Tree: Nederlandse voorouders
Notes:
Johannesburg, also known as eGoli (place of gold), is the largest and most populous city in South Africa. The city is affectionately known as "Jo'burg", "Jozi" and "JHB" by South Africans. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and which has the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. The city is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world, and Africa's only officially designated global city (classified as a gamma world city). While often assumed to be South Africa's capital, Johannesburg does not form one of South Africa's three capital cities. Johannesburg does, however, house the South African Constitutional Court - South Africa's highest court.
Johannesburg is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade, due to its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills. Johannesburg is also served by O.R. Tambo International Airport, the largest and busiest airport in Africa and a gateway for international air travel to and from the rest of southern Africa.
According to the 2001 Census, the population of the city is more than three million. Johannesburg's land area of 1,644 km² is very large when compared to other cities, resulting in a population density of only 1,962/km². The population of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area is almost eight million. Johannesburg also encompasses Soweto to the south west, a township that the apartheid government established to accommodate the large number of migrant workers.
History
The region surrounding Johannesburg has been inhabited by man for millions of years. The Sterkfontein Caves, to the north west, have produced the most complete skeleton of a 3.3 million-year old hominid, as well as close to 700 specimens of a closely related species, Australopithecus africanus, among them Mrs Ples, which is between 2.3 and 2.8 million years old.
It is theorised that the Johannesburg region was inhabited by the nomadic Bushmen people, around 100,000 years ago. The Bushmen are said to have lived in the area until the Bantu-speaking people migrated into the area in about 1060 AD. The Bantu people were Iron Age people who domesticated animals, farmed crops, worked metal, made pottery, and lived in organised villages.
The region remained inhabited by both the Bushmen and the Bantu people. When Europeans arrived in the area, small numbers of Boers started farms, but there was no major European settlement until the 1880s, when gold was discovered in the region, triggering a gold rush.
Gold was initially discovered slightly to the east of present-day Johannesburg, in Barberton. Gold prospectors soon discovered that there were even richer gold reefs in the Witwatersrand.
The town was initially much the same as any small prospecting settlement, but, as word spread, people flocked to the area from all other regions of the country, as well as from North America, the United Kingdom, and the rest of Europe. As the value of control of the land increased, tensions developed between the Boers, who founded the town and in whose country (the ZAR) Johannesburg was located during the nineteenth century, and the British, culminating in the Second Anglo-Boer War. The Boers lost the war and control of the area was ceded to the British.
The 1910 declaration of the Union of South Africa paved the way for a more organised mining structure. Later, the South African government instituted a harsh racial system whereby blacks and Indians were heavily taxed, barred from holding skilled jobs, and consequently forced to work as migrant labour on Johannesburg's growing crop of gold mines.
The South African government then instituted a system of forced removals, moving the population of non-European descent into specified areas. It is this system that created the sprawling shantytown of Soweto (South Western Townships), one of the areas where blacks were forced to live during the apartheid era. Nelson Mandela spent many years living in Soweto and his Soweto home in Orlando is currently a major tourist attraction.
Large-scale violence broke out in 1976 when the Soweto Students' Representative Council organised protests against the use of Afrikaans, considered to be the language of the oppressors, as the primary language of instruction in black schools. Police shot into a student march. 1000 people died protesting the apartheid system, in the following 12 months. One of the most famous victims of the massacre, Hector Pieterson, is commemorated with a large Museum dedicated to his memory, in Soweto.
The regulations of apartheid were abandoned in February 1990, and, since the 1994 elections, Johannesburg has been free of discriminatory laws. The black townships have been integrated into the municipal government system, and, to some extent, the suburbs have become multiracial. However, there has been a large-scale migration of businesses and commerce away from the Central Business District and the southern suburbs, in favour of the more affluent northern suburbs. This was fueled by a rise in the crime rate, serious traffic congestion, inadequate public transport, and a more favourable tax environment for landlords in the northern suburbs prior to the integration of the city. Currently the Johannesburg Metropolitan Council is implementing a large scale Inner City Revival project, leading to many business moving back to the inner city.
Matches 1 to 19 of 19
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Birth | Person ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Barron, Antony Livingston | Sat 03 Apr 1915 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474414 | Nederlandse voorouders |
2 | Belinfante, Augusta Emelie Anna | Fri 21 Apr 1905 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119289 | Nederlandse voorouders |
3 | Belinfante, Valentine Rowland | Thu 24 Aug 1922 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119290 | Nederlandse voorouders |
4 | Belinfante, Valentine Sebastian Rowland | Mon 18 Apr 1949 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119312 | Nederlandse voorouders |
5 | Bloom, Solomon Harris | Wed 01 Jan 1913 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I673470 | Nederlandse voorouders |
6 | Halberstadt, Johan Philip | Tue 06 Oct 1914 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474524 | Nederlandse voorouders |
7 | Halberstadt, Theodora Gerharda Geertruida | Sat 23 Dec 1911 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474611 | Nederlandse voorouders |
8 | Hartley, Ernest William | Sun 08 May 1910 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474634 | Nederlandse voorouders |
9 | Holleman, Marie Louise | Fri 23 Nov 1894 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I821059 | Nederlandse voorouders |
10 | Hopkins, Shona | Yes, date unknown | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474670 | Nederlandse voorouders |
11 | Klugkist, Meinard Jacob | Wed 07 Nov 1906 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I204605 | Nederlandse voorouders |
12 | Klugkist, Nanno | Thu 07 May 1914 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I204607 | Nederlandse voorouders |
13 | Krenger, Christian | Thu 21 Dec 1826 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I606041 | Nederlandse voorouders |
14 | Krenger, Rudolf | Sun 28 Jan 1821 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I606039 | Nederlandse voorouders |
15 | Naudé, Muriel Magdalena | Thu 10 Nov 1887 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I562234 | Nederlandse voorouders |
16 | Pretorius, Barend Johannes | Tue 10 Jul 1888 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I562329 | Nederlandse voorouders |
17 | Pretorius, Henning Petrus Cornelis | Mon 02 Jan 1893 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I562339 | Nederlandse voorouders |
18 | de Ruig, Jacoba Christina | Wed 12 Apr 1916 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I810050 | Nederlandse voorouders |
19 | de Ruig, Jeanne Marie | Thu 27 Jun 1912 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I810049 | Nederlandse voorouders |
Matches 1 to 4 of 4
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Christening | Person ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Krenger, Christian | Sun 31 Dec 1826 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I606041 | Nederlandse voorouders |
2 | Krenger, Rudolf | Sun 04 Feb 1821 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I606039 | Nederlandse voorouders |
3 | Pretorius, Barend Johannes | Sun 02 Dec 1888 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I562329 | Nederlandse voorouders |
4 | Pretorius, Henning Petrus Cornelis | Mon 06 Feb 1893 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I562339 | Nederlandse voorouders |
Matches 1 to 27 of 27
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Death | Person ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Bakkum, Alida Maria | Wed 18 Jun 1986 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I10826 | Nederlandse voorouders |
2 | Belinfante, August Aron | Sun 16 Dec 1928 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119284 | Nederlandse voorouders |
3 | Belinfante, Augusta Emelie Anna | Sat 12 Oct 1940 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119289 | Nederlandse voorouders |
4 | Belinfante, Elisabeth Emelie Catharine | Thu 06 Oct 1904 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119287 | Nederlandse voorouders |
5 | Belinfante, Jacques Maurice Francis | 1977 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119288 | Nederlandse voorouders |
6 | Belinfante, Valentine Rowland | Fri 16 Dec 1988 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119290 | Nederlandse voorouders |
7 | Belinfante, Valentine Sebastian Rowland | Wed 20 Jul 1949 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119312 | Nederlandse voorouders |
8 | van Bruggen, Anna | Sun 17 Nov 2013 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I13246 | Nederlandse voorouders |
9 | Caithness, Edith Constance | Sat 30 Oct 1982 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474878 | Nederlandse voorouders |
10 | Fontein, Rijkje | Sat 14 Feb 1981 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474931 | Nederlandse voorouders |
11 | Halberstadt, Hendrik Johan Elize Willem | Sun 26 Jan 1969 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474495 | Nederlandse voorouders |
12 | Halberstadt, Johan Philip | Tue 06 Sep 1955 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I474522 | Nederlandse voorouders |
13 | Klugkist, Nanno | Tue 02 Jun 1959 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I204607 | Nederlandse voorouders |
14 | Lich, Jan Marius Bruins | 1928 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I280401 | Nederlandse voorouders |
15 | Oppenheimer, Ernest | Mon 25 Nov 1957 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I740045 | Nederlandse voorouders |
16 | Pahlavi, Shah Reza | Wed 26 Jul 1944 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I667270 | Nederlandse voorouders |
17 | Pretorius, Andrew Godfrey | Mon 09 Jan 1939 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I562336 | Nederlandse voorouders |
18 | Pretorius, Jacomiena Jacoba | Tue 17 Jan 1978 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119291 | Nederlandse voorouders |
19 | van Raam, Wilhelmina Catharina | Sun 29 Jun 1986 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I274215 | Nederlandse voorouders |
20 | van Rooyen, Maria Sussanah | Tue 26 Dec 1961 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I119309 | Nederlandse voorouders |
21 | de Ruig, Jacoba Christina | Tue 28 Jan 2003 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I810050 | Nederlandse voorouders |
22 | Savenije, Gerardus Bernardus | Thu 23 Sep 1971 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I10815 | Nederlandse voorouders |
23 | Savenije, Henricus Johannes Dominicus Theodorus | Fri 16 Aug 2013 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I13235 | Nederlandse voorouders |
24 | Seebregts, Adrianus Cornelius Petrus | Wed 14 Sep 1960 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I655899 | Nederlandse voorouders |
25 | Seebregts, Robert Martin | 1988 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I660732 | Nederlandse voorouders |
26 | Stulemeijer, Alphonsus Jacobus Maria Theresia | Sun 16 Nov 2003 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I740247 | Nederlandse voorouders |
27 | Zylstra, Grietje | Mon 19 Aug 1929 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | I204604 | Nederlandse voorouders |
Matches 1 to 11 of 11
Family | Marriage | Family ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Barron / Halberstadt | Sat 07 Jul 1945 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F184167 | Nederlandse voorouders |
2 | Belinfante / Pretorius | Sat 26 Apr 1947 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F48821 | Nederlandse voorouders |
3 | Belinfante / Rooyen | Sat 02 Feb 1946 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F48819 | Nederlandse voorouders |
4 | Halberstadt / Caithness | Sat 10 Feb 1945 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F184194 | Nederlandse voorouders |
5 | Halberstadt / Scholtz | Thu 24 Mar 1921 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F184215 | Nederlandse voorouders |
6 | Hartley / Halberstadt | Sat 21 Dec 1946 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F184277 | Nederlandse voorouders |
7 | Kloppenburg / Bijvoet | Wed 15 Aug 1951 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F218519 | Nederlandse voorouders |
8 | Ruig / Bosch | Mon 25 Sep 1905 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F302367 | Nederlandse voorouders |
9 | Savenije / Bruggen | Sat 19 Feb 1966 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F5158 | Nederlandse voorouders |
10 | Solomon / Belinfante | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F48820 | Nederlandse voorouders | |
11 | Stiekema / Rattey | Sat 09 May 1992 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, Suid-Afrika | F291960 | Nederlandse voorouders |
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