Village Main, Gauteng

Village Main is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The suburb lies less than a kilometre south of the Johannesburg CBD. Once mining land, now consists of light industry and one of the city's main freeways, the M2 runs through the suburb. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

Village Main
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Coordinates: 26.218°S 28.045°E / -26.218; 28.045
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Established	1924
Area [1]
• Total	2.43 km2 (0.94 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	53
• Density	22/km2 (56/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	96.2%
• Coloured	1.9%
• White	1.9%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Sotho	26.4%
• Zulu	22.6%
• Northern Sotho	15.1%
• English	9.4%
• Other	26.4%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	2001

History

Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms that make up Johannesburg, called Turffontein.^[2] Lying close to the Main Reef gold deposits the suburb was on mining land of the Village Main Reef Mining Gold Company.^[2] Was surveyed as a suburb in 1923 and proclaimed on 10 June 1924.^[2]