Cyrildene
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Cyrildene is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The area is found east of the Johannesburg CBD and is surrounded by the suburbs of Linksfield, Observatory and Bruma.
A street scene of the Chinatown on Derrick Avenue in Cyrildene, Johannesburg. (May 2011)
Newtown, Johannesburg
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Newtown is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in the capital city of Gauteng Province and in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It has the coordinates o
Cyrildene
…the Group Areas Act, in place since the 1950s, and classes Cyrildene as a "whites only" area. Unlike the old and now largely abandoned Chinatown in Newtown, which was largely made up of second or third generation South African Chinese, the new inhabitants of the Chinatown in Cyrildene are overwhelmingly…
Newtown, with Nelson Mandela Bridge in the background